47 citations · 47 across the 1 of their papers we have counts for
2 papers
physics.soc-ph2016
Special Operations Forces: A Global Immune System?
Joseph Norman, Yaneer Bar-Yam
The use of special operations forces (SOF) in war fighting and peace keeping efforts has increased dramatically in recent decades. A scientific understanding of the reason for this…
q-fin.GN2014★ 47 cited
The Precautionary Principle (with Application to the Genetic Modification of Organisms)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Rupert Read, Raphael Douady +2
We present a non-naive version of the Precautionary (PP) that allows us to avoid paranoia and paralysis by confining precaution to specific domains and problems. PP is intended to…