| Well, I drink coffee, so the game is up. Despite everyone on the Internet warning me about how everything is dangerous, I have done all these things without even coming close to risking anything. I've also noticed that people on the Internet think that a child riding their bicycle on the sidewalk is dangerous to other people on the sidewalk. So that leaves me with the natural conclusion: the threshold people pick for unacceptable risk to life and limb is on a wide distribution, so P(I_will_think_x_is_dangerous|someone_told_me) is very low. And in the end, I've written a lot of code for a lot of people and have led successful organizations, so I know I'm not unproductive and I know I'm still not unproductive. So maybe I'm rolling the dice each time, but you know what? The fact that I've done shrooms tens of times, and alcohol hundreds of times, and LSD some ten times, and I'm able to do all of this and still be okay by society's standards has got to set a lower bound on your posterior probability after reading this comment surely. There's a lot of nutty mysticism surrounding so many completely normal things. It's like in middle school, when we kids were discussing what condoms make you do. Some theories from the time: - condoms make you want to kiss someone - some kid heard about another kid's friend who wore a condom and they got a baby as a result - another kid heard that condoms are a kind of powder That's the state of the comments here |