timtyler comments on What Are Probabilities, Anyway? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 12 December 2009 09:10:56AM *  3 points [-]

A bizarre interpretation.

For example, caring about "living until tomorrow" does not normally mean assigning a zero probability to death in the interim. If anything that would tend to make you fearless - indifferent to whether you stepped in front of a bus or not - the very opposite of what we normally mean by "caring" about some outcome.