[dylan604]

He's still alive, so it sounds like he's got a little credit left on that account. The big creditor in the sky hasn't declined his charges yet.

Remember this guy's name. If you ever meet this guy and he asks if you want to go on a trip with him, I would advise politely declining. You should however, offer to buy him a beer to have him tell his stories.

[ukyrgf]

He is saying his "luck" skill is maxed out, so he is +10 while others could be having a real -10 of it.

[bryanrasmussen]

maybe he sucks up all the available luck in the area, a kind of luck vampire, and everyone else dies because out of luck!

I'd write the story but evidently we are already background in it.

[huhtenberg]

The whale seems to have survived. So there's that.

[dotancohen]

Yeah, that's addressed in the fine article as well:

  > For years, he was an abalone diver on the West Coast in
  > an area with great white sharks that have a history of
  > attacking divers; he lost some friends to the predators.

[sharken]

Not that everything needs to be made into a film, but i could see maybe a B movie with the title "The Luck Vampire" be mildly (or wildly) successful.

And the actor can only be one person :)

[hobs]

It's called Intacto actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intacto

[state_less]

In a large group of people, by chance alone we should expect some to be lucky multiple times.

I guess that's life in a quasi-infinite expanse.

[ewindal]

There’s already a Donald Duck story like that. Some guy comes to Duckville, and Gladstone Gander is completely terrified of him because.

[aspaceman]

I’ve liked the interpretation that high luck isn’t necessarily good. It just means highly improbable events happen to you more likely...

[iron_ball]

Teela Brown from Ringworld. She was the result of a selective breeding program intended to create the luckiest human alive... but it turned out the _real_ lucky ones were all the "failures" who did _not_ get recruited for an impossibly dangerous mission.

[icebraining]

That mirrors Orwell's thought when he survived a shot in the neck during the Spanish civil war - everyone kept telling him how lucky he was, but he couldn't help but think it would have been luckier to not have been shot at all!

[Zanni]

As I recall (spoiler), that was speculation by one of the other characters after they crashed on Ringworld, later reversed because Teela met the love of her life due to the crash. The real take away was that Teela's luck was in no way transferable to the rest of the party; it only looked out for Teela.

[dylan604]

Luck seems to me to be a zero sum game, so if someone is lucky, someone else must be unlucky. It's like a new character on What We Do In The Shadows as a luck vampire.

[Firerouge]

Perhaps instead luck is a field or fabric permeating or moving through spacetime with concentrated areas of entropy or improbabilities that some people can naturally sense of are drawn towards

[sateesh]

The theme of the movie "Unbreakable" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbreakable_(film)

[shkkmo]

Luck is only zero sum if you are playing zero sum games. If your are engaged in mutualistic games, everyone can be lucky together.

[taneq]

I thought she was an interesting idea but after thinking more about it - don’t every human alive meet that definition?

[nobodyandproud]

Thank you! I was wracking my brain just now, trying to remember where I read this.

[cheese_van]

Does a machine exist that can determine whether any arbitrary fisherman from Boston in a computational ocean is "eatable" in polynomial time?