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by cupofpython 1451 days ago
not entirely tautological. the probability that something bad happens tomorrow if we do X today for the first time is very different than the probability that something bad happens tomorrow if we do X today GIVEN weve been doing X every day for 50 years.

It is still insufficient to say nothing bad will happen, of course

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Thats not the argument. The one you are making is the same one people make when they conflate weather and climate.
Conditional probability applies to many things