army1987 comments on The Magnitude of His Own Folly - Less Wrong
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For a certain value of “in principle” and “actually”, they're right -- according to the relevant actuarial table, the probability of someone my age of my gender in my country dying is less than 2 parts per million per day. (But of course, it's higher than that for someone who drives at 100 km/h while drunk more often than the typical person in that demographics.)