anonym comments on Rationality Quotes: February 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: anonym 01 February 2010 06:50:31AM 15 points [-]

Million-to-one odds happen eight times a day in New York.

Penn Jillette

Comment author: [deleted] 02 February 2010 06:13:49AM 12 points [-]

Note to self: every day, eight million things happen in New York.

Comment author: anonym 02 February 2010 06:31:34AM 1 point [-]

I'm guessing the number comes from the population of New York city: about 8 million.

Comment author: Larks 02 February 2010 08:18:20PM 2 points [-]

Wow, New York must be a pritty boring place to live in.

Comment author: bgrah449 02 February 2010 05:50:54PM 2 points [-]

Events with million-to-one odds of happening in one day to one person happen eight times a day in New York - on average.

Comment author: gwern 01 February 2010 10:35:14PM 1 point [-]

Hm. And I thought I was being original when I liked to say 'billion to one odds happen 7 times a day on Earth'.

Comment author: Zack_M_Davis 02 February 2010 06:29:47AM 8 points [-]

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.