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In fact, the chance of any particular second being the one where you die is vanishingly small.



A true logician would know that that's not how probability works.

Yeah this comic is frankly... embarrassing. It'd be rectified if the logician said "the a priori odds [...]", but as it is, since the person was actually struck, the odds of them dying from it became 1 in 10.

codetaku wrote:Yeah this comic is frankly... embarrassing. It'd be rectified if the logician said "the a priori odds [...]", but as it is, since the person was actually struck, the odds of them dying from it became 1 in 10.

Oh, you mean like this comic:



...sorry zach