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Risk of volcano catastrophe 'a roll of the dice'
- cantaloupe 4y agoI was curious what size dice… > one-in-six chance of a magnitude seven explosion in the next one hundred years That’s surprisingly high indeed. As a general rule, humans are not great at dealing with low probability, high impact events. See: global pandemic readiness. Although, what are we more proactive about than reactive? Heard a story today about how heat waves are the most deadly common natural disaster/phenomenon, but hurricanes get much more attention. Something about dealing with invisible threats with probabilistic death rates.