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Comment author: LessWrong 04 January 2016 05:41:20PM 1 point [-]

My take is that he meant a black and white view of risk, which can be visualized using a SAFE | RISK coin rather than a SAFE ------------------ RISK continuum.

And to be somewhat on topic, in some areas of the world crossing the street can be either safer or more risky.

Comment author: Dagon 04 January 2016 10:41:25PM 1 point [-]

I'd love to see the correlation across locations between risk of street-crossing and risk of unprotected sex. I suspect it's noticeably positive.

Comment author: Lumifer 05 January 2016 01:12:05AM 0 points [-]

the correlation across locations between risk of street-crossing and risk of unprotected sex.

Hm :-) You'll probably find two clusters: the first one will correspond to big cities and the other will correspond to failed states. Though I'm not sure there's that much car traffic in the failed states.