kodos96 comments on Floating Festival Jul 22-25 - Less Wrong

10 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 July 2010 06:36AM

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Comment author: kodos96 21 July 2010 10:31:09PM 3 points [-]

I'm not entirely clear on what exactly they're insuring against.... someone getting injured and suing the Seasteading Institute? I wonder if the insurer factored in the fact that everyone involved in the event believes in a political ideology of extreme personal responsibility, and are therefore much less likely than the average american to sue some random third party when they slip and fall.

Comment author: Kevin 21 July 2010 10:52:28PM *  3 points [-]

what exactly they're insuring against.... someone getting injured and suing the Seasteading Institute?

I think so. I doubt the underwriters took the ideology into much account, they probably just went with the standard factor for P(lawsuit | serious injury) which I would guess is over 50%.