Kingreaper comments on Best career models for doing research? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kingreaper 10 December 2010 06:34:48PM *  8 points [-]

But probably far more than 1% of cave-men who chose to seek out a sabre-tooth tiger to see if they were friendly died due to doing so.

The relevant question on an issue of personal safety isn't "What % of the population die due to trying this?"

The relevant question is: "What % of the people who try this will die?"

In the first case, rollerskating downhill, while on fire, after having taken arsenic would seem safe (as I suspect no-one has ever done precisely that)