Romashka comments on Probabilities Small Enough To Ignore: An attack on Pascal's Mugging - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Romashka 16 September 2015 03:49:42PM 1 point [-]

Would that mean that if I expect to have to use transport n times throughout the next m years, with probability p of dying during commuting; and I want to calculate the PEST of, for example, fatal poisoning from canned food f, which I estimate to be able to happen about t times during the same m years, I have to lump the two dangers together and see if it is still <1? I mean, I can work from home and never eat canned food... But this doesn't seem to be what you write about when you talk about different deals.

(Sorry for possibly stupid question.)