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I was unfamiliar with the term micromort, it’s basically one a million chance of death: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik

• shagie 4y ago
  The advantage of using micromorts is that they're units that can be added and directly compared. As a populace, we tend to be rather bad at doing fractions and percents - things like mpg - going from 34 to 50 mpg is less of a savings than having a vehicle go from 18 to 28 mpg for the same distance traveled. Consider the problem: you must either do X (1/200 chance of death) or YZ (Y has 1/300 chance of death, Z has 1/300 chance of death). Reworded this becomes: you must either do X (5 micromorts) or YZ (Y is 3.3 micromorts, Z is 3.3 micromorts). And now you've got things that are easier to compare and work with in a scale that we can think about. Most people are doing things on the scale of 0 to 20 micromorts. The more adventurous are doing things that get up to 100 or so. The thrill seekers go up from there. This is also a concept in insurance - https://www.insurancethoughtleadership.com/six-things-commentary/micromorts-new-way-talk-about-risks https://www.insurancethoughtleadership.com/six-things-commen... Cambridge University - Professor Risk https://youtu.be/a1PtQ67urG4 https://youtu.be/a1PtQ67urG4 A previous discussion on it from 2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6266462 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6266462