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Lumifer comments on Open Thread, Jun. 15 - Jun. 21, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 17 June 2015 03:45:38PM 6 points [-]

children don't fear as much becoming disabled themselves and so take more risks.

This looks like a counterfactual to me :-) I suspect that children nowadays take considerably less risks than 50 years ago, never mind a hundred or two.

Comment author: James_Miller 17 June 2015 04:48:53PM 4 points [-]

True.