Taleb after Apollo 1’s explosion: “keep trying, blind idiots”
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ThEy WeRe FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS
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Eh. This is a bit straw-mannish. There’s a difference between “let’s keep breeding the fattest ones” and “let’s try splicing these genes in a lab with our new tool”.
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>This, it is an underappreciated point in the discussion. (That said, splice away!)
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My question is why are they trying to modify genes to remove horns? We should be seeing developments in creating miniature unicorns. One horn is better than no horn!
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Imagine believing iterative artificial selection is equivalent to splicing genes in a lab. https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/pp2.pdf
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No, he doesn’t think that.
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