Sinofsky Shares Precautionary Principle Wikipedia Link

Steven Sinofsky, former Microsoft executive and current Substack writer and seed investor, posted that an important math observation is the formula proving the need for the precautionary principle. He stated it shows why the principle is insidious and popular with the pundit and influencer crowd and serves as a tool for populists during elections. Sinofsky linked to the Wikipedia entry on the precautionary principle. The entry states that in an engineering context the principle manifests as the factor of safety and was suggested in civil engineering by Belidor in 1729, noting the interrelation between safety factor and reliability.