[DoctorOetker]

I think Risk Homeostasis is a very poorly chosen name.

Risk Desensitization would have been a lot better.

Homeostasis is the maintenance of a desirable home or set point.

Cell types are maintained by homeostasis, if we ignore gametes and white blood cells all the cells share the same genome, but the cell state (predominantly cell contents, i.e. concentrations in the cell and vacuoles) determines how the organism cell reacts and allows the cell to "remember" what type of cell it is, so the desirable feedback is towards multiple local loss minima each corresponding to a cell type, think spontaneous symmetry breaking.

One wouldn't say a cancer cell performs homeostasis with respect to the tissue, even if some bacterium or innate mutation drives it out of normal behavior.

[HerbManic]

That is a fair assessment. Another name that has been given is Risk Compensation.