risk

=Risk=

toc Part of the scalometer's raison d'être is to help detect risk. This article defines risk and clarifies its role in scalometers.

=Definition= To manage risk we must detect, avoid, mitigate, recover. Detection is the focus of scalometers: we seek to implement caution.

=Categorization Of Risks= A list of risk categorizations, or scales, that might be used in scalometers:

Bostrom's categorization of risks: The vertical access is from the individual to the collective species: personal, local, global. The horizontal access is from less to more. Quadrants in clockwise from upper left: moderate, profound, endurable, terminal.

Gupta’s six ways to die: Binary pairs in three main categories of shelter, supply and safety. Shelter protects from Too Hot and Too Cold; Supply protects from Hunger and Thirst; Safety protects from Illness and Injury.

=Risk At Orders Of Magnitude= Risk arises in scales when the new scale is •	Non-associated, non-reportable, non-intensive or non-intensional, non-telic •	Has a change in relevant contingent behavior due to changed operational definition, force ratios, manifested phenomenon by virtue of growth or emergence