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> Anyone who paid attention during introductory statistics will recognize that your probability of survival to age t would follow a Poisson distribution, which
by willchang 15y ago
> Anyone who paid attention during introductory statistics will recognize that your probability of survival to age t would follow a Poisson distribution, which means exponential decay (and not super-exponential decay).
Small correction: survival to time t under the lightning bolt scenario follows an exponential distribution. A Poisson distribution, besides for being discrete, has factorial decay, not exponential decay.