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#22
05-21-2007, 04:49 PM
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Re: What would you give to increase your chance of living from 45% to
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Dying is really bad for your personal utility. I would give any amount of money to improve my chance of living by basically any amount in this scenario. I mean I guess if I had a 44.999999999999999999% chance of living, and I had to give 100% of my net worth to improve to 45%, I guess I'd just say screw it, but any sort of non-neglible percentage improvement I'd give everything I had for it. [/ QUOTE ] This is what some people initially think. That practically no percentage is too small. But in the real world it just doesn't happen this way and I learned this in a previous thread a long time ago that pointed this out to me. Would you pay all your life-savings just to make sure you had the safest car ever designed? The chances of you dying in a regular old car vs. the safest car ever is probably way more than 'negligible' or 0.000000001%. Yet people are relatively comfortable driving in somewhat more dangerous and less crash-resistent vehicles all the time. Much less stuff like driving too fast, without your seatbelt, or on rain-slicked pavement on a late Saturday night when you're more likely to encounter drunk-drivers (just had a minor accident myself a few weeks ago that fit all those criteria). And anyone who actually did get the super-safe car on the philosophy of, "Your life is too valuable. That's why I paid $200k for the safest car ever!!" would be looked at as kind of a freak who is also stock-piling water and food in his bomb-shelter in case a nuclear attack happened. So 10% better chance of living. Yeah, I'd probably risk everything I had (which isn't much). But even for 0.001% it's probably not worth much. Not much different than making a parachute jump or driving too fast in the rain or some other risky activity. 
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05-21-2007, 05:35 PM
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Re: What would you give to increase your chance of living from 45% to
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I don't know how I'm going to go, but it ain't going to be at the hands of some deranged dungeonmaster. [/ QUOTE ] We don't negotiate with terrorists.
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05-21-2007, 07:50 PM
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Re: What would you give to increase your chance of living from 45% to 55%?
OP, there is a high chance, somewhere around 45%, that i will track you down and kill you for this awful post.
PM me for payment details to increase your chances of survival.
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05-21-2007, 07:58 PM
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Re: What would you give to increase your chance of living from 45% to
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Money is useless when you are dead. [/ QUOTE ] "When I die, bury me in straight-laced shoes / and a box back suit, double breasted / Put a $20 gold piece on my watch chain / so the boys will now that i died standing pat" --Louis Armstrong, St. James' Infirmary
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05-22-2007, 12:49 AM
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Re: What would you give to increase your chance of living from 45% to 55%?
At this point in time I'd give everything. They'll enjoy the new ownership of my debt.
If I were worth $100mil I'd give nothing. To go back to being at rock bottom would probably be too much of a thud for me to handle. It's easy to say now of course, but when you sit back and think about it, that $100mil must've been a f*cking LOT of hard work. I'd just let it ride, baby. It's just like swapping around QQ for AK.
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