Vladimir_Nesov comments on Normal Cryonics - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 January 2010 07:08PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 20 January 2010 02:51:34AM 1 point [-]

Life insurance is purchased more for signaling than as a financial instrument.

I originally wrote "otherwise people won't buy insurance", then recognized the difference, and posted the phrasing "otherwise people shouldn't buy insurance". A lot of insurance really does have positive expected value.