soreff comments on Circular Altruism - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 January 2008 06:00PM

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Comment author: soreff 28 March 2015 04:45:57PM *  2 points [-]

Whenever one bends down to pick up a dropped penny, one has more than a 1/Googolplex chance of a slip-and-fall accident which would leave one suffering for 50 years.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 28 March 2015 08:33:53PM 4 points [-]

But you also slightly improve your physical fitness which might reduce the probability of an accident further down the line by more than 1/10^10^100.