The Precautionary Principle, a Fact Sheet With application to GMOs,a draft for discussiom by Yaneer Bar-Yam., Rupert Read, and yours truly. New File Location
http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/pp2.pdf
via The Precautionary Principle, a Fact Sheet With… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
The link to The Precautionary Principle is broken. I’d like to read it. Can you please direct me to a working link?
[Update 7/30/14 New link to most recent version https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8nhAlfIk3QIbGFzOXF5UUN3N2c/edit ]
NNT does that a lot – remove links. I couldn’t find another just now. Likely he’s updating and will repost shortly, else it will be published as a paper at ssrn http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=475810 Meanwhile you could get the gist of it here in his letter to Stewart Brand http://longplayer.org/letters/to-stewart-brand/ Best, JohnH
Counterexample for your conjecture:(Assuming that x is horizontal and increasing right, and y is vertical increasing down.)I suspect, though, that every time you subtract the next greedy quad from the current figure, you reduce (horizontal edges) + (total genus) (connected components) by at least 1.