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Nassim Taleb
Why not?
The problem with a disease is the symptoms. If you can cure the disease, all the symptoms will go away, but if you can only cure the more harmful symptoms, that will generally be almost as good.
Not really. The word "symptoms" generally means "noticeable signs" and with some diseases the first visible sign is sudden death.
Taleb is really talking about treating the cause and not visible manifestations.