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by inigyou 6 days ago
Yeah the clock turned out to be silly, but if you interpret it as risk level instead of time, it makes sense. Since the 70s we have been at a near-100% chance this would happen.
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so the probability approaches 0% every 10 years and then goes back up to 99% the following year and repeats 5 times ?

that makes little sense to me

What?
"We keep making predictions that never comes true maybe one day we'll be right when I won't be around to find out"
"sir you have cancer, you'll die in five years"

five years later: "HAHA THE DOCTORS ARE ALL STUPID AND WRONG!"

five more years: dead, of cancer