Their "existential luck looks no different from the "circumstantial luck" to me - an asteroid hitting the earth is indeed in the matter of being "at the wrong p

Their "existential luck looks no different from the "circumstantial luck" to me - an asteroid hitting the earth is indeed in the matter of being "at the wrong place at the wrong time". But as someone said here, it's all about probability distributions and trying to minimize/maximize your chances. I like to believe that there is not such a thing as "chance", that it is all about hidden variables, but I've been told right here before that the quantum theory says otherwise.