From: Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca>
Newsgroups: can.politics,alt.politics
Subject: Luck of the Draw
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2024 22:38:30 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
An interesting, and useful, contemplation:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/07/the-big-idea-should-we-be-thinking-about-luck-differently
with which I must disagree on a small point:
"Of course, we wouldnât be here to muse on our good fortune
if this chain of events had not occurred, and this
âsurvivorship biasâ means that it is philosophically
challenging and, I believe, rather pointless, to talk
about the probability of our existence."
I don't think it is at all pointless to point out
how fucking Lucky we are to be here at all: a bunch
of bugs on a rock spinning around a giant nuclear
fireball.
HooRah!
Dhu
--
Je suis Canadien. Ce n'est pas Francais ou Anglais.
C'est une esp`ece de sauvage: ne obliviscaris, vix ea nostra voco;-)
Duncan Patton a Campbell