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You can reduce the number of rolls you make for cancer in life, but I think at the end of the day you just have to accept that you are still always making some
by AngryData 1y ago
You can reduce the number of rolls you make for cancer in life, but I think at the end of the day you just have to accept that you are still always making some rolls and eventually you are going to lose. Just the fact that we live in an oxygen environment gives us some small level of cancers even if we could otherwise eliminate all other environmental factors and replication errors.
- radu_floricica 1y agoYes, but still incredibly important to avoid these rolls. Something that is quite unintuitive is that risk is remarkable fungible - one source of risk is very much like another. Once you properly internalize this you can treat risk literally like radiation. Keep a virtual dosimeter on you and adjust your lifetime exposure accordingly. There are a couple of consequences for this. First is that you can replace a source of risk with another, to keep below your desired threshold. You start learning to fly, you stop riding motorcycles. Second is that every risk reduction you do is still valuable in itself. You wouldn't start getting monthly CT scans just because you visited Chernobyl - same with risk, wearing your seatbelt is independent of riding motorcycles. Sounds obvious, but that's the reverse of what most people do. Instead of risk compensation they use certain behaviors as definitions for their risk tolerance. "I already smoke, why should I care about grilling indoors?" This is an incredibly common attitude, and it's the very opposite of what's rational.