LessWrong comments on Open Thread, January 4-10, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion
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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.
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.
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.