# Derisking is actually deuncertaintying
Most of the time when we talk about “derisking” something, we’re not actually changing the probability curve of the thing; we’re reducing our [[Knightian Uncertainty]] about what the probability curve actually looks like.
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- [[Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit]]
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