The New York Times Magazine has a long article by Michael Lewis about catastrophic risk, covering insurance analyst John Seo. I'm surprised there's no mention of Nassim Taleb and his book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (which I have not yet read) about the very subject of forecasting events as unlikely and unpredictable as a hurricane devastating a major city .
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