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Re:Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases... by eru on Thursday August 18, 2022 @01:43AM (#32505735)
Eating insects is about as dangerous as it was ten years ago or twenty years ago.

If more people are eating insects than before that might increase risks.

I don't really have any opinion on this, nor any horse in the race.

But, what does any of this have to do with exponentials?

> [...] the probability of catastrophic outcomes is exponential [...]

Exponential in what input variable?

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Re:Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases... by shaburn on Thursday August 18, 2022 @03:31PM (#32513879)
The act in isolation. Yes. But When a society eating societies of bugs both increase you get exponential increases in probability of transmission of terminal diseases. This is literally High School biology in the US.
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Re:Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases... by runnig on Thursday August 18, 2022 @02:22AM (#32505979)
probably they mean

``` probability(catastrophic outcomes) == e ```

/s

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