Real, real answer: Not only is it happening to other people, it's happening to small N other people. You hear about it like five times a year, and millions of

Real, real answer: Not only is it happening to other people, it's happening to small N other people. You hear about it like five times a year, and millions of people cross the border every year. The proportion of egregious false positives -- defined as, bad enough for someone to want to write about it -- is vanishingly small. The odds that it'll happen to any given person here, even any given person of the subject minority (brown), is so small it might as well be zero, from the perspective of a brain that's bad at dealing with small numbers [1]. It's hard enough to get people who read a tech site to care. Now try getting everyone to. [1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/6h1/people_neglect_small_probability_events/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/6h1/people_neglect_small_probability...