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>> Not questioning your theory, just your maths. :-p >> IF i create a PERFECT piece of life saving matter (100% effective), and say you
>> are still only willing to pay $1000 for it, is then your life is only worth
>> $10? I think you are confused by the maths yourself. Are you defining the PERFECT life saving matter as something which
will definitely save your life, or definitely save your life in
an accident? (Read the footnote in the original article). If it will (almost) definitely save your life (eg it's a
parachute, and you have just fallen out of an airplane) and you are only
willing to pay $1000 for it, then that's your value on you own
life. I never said it was the worth of your life - I haven't defined
that, and I don't really care. >> I don?t know about you, but my noggin is worth more than
$10... Good for you. Tell someone who cares. >> I am not sure, but with your sum, the crappier the life saving device (or the
>> more it costs your for the same effect) the more your are worth? (or the more
>> it costs your for the same effecting result) I think you have confused the maths. Study the original article, and the
comments above, and think it through. >> this brings into mind all the nuts out there who are willing to take a risk and
>> a gamble. >> All the crazy kids you mentioned who just can't resist throwing little rocks at
>> one bigger rock can rest assured. Oh man, them kids .. they just so crazy .. >> Not only do they NOT waste their money on
>> useless inventions like ?air bag?, You have given no evidence that air bags are useless. The public perception
is that they decrease risk. You have evidence to the contrary, please state
your argument, or at least make your assumption overt. >> but because they are not willing to invest
>> in the new fancy life saving technology (settling for a wooden shield) they
>> must be all standing around with billion dollar prices on their
>> head! No, you are just confused. Maths A01. OK? >> And this
>> is even more interesting when we incorporate the suicide bombers, these guys
>> are often paid to carry around their "life saving device". (Although its not
>> going to save them unless it breaks their fall) However, their device has an
>> almost zero percent chance of saving their life (we will say infinitely
>> small?) Most school children learn about negative numbers. Wearing a set of
explosive overalls increases your chance of dying. Ie, the expectation value
of saving your life does not approach zero, it is negative. Do the sums. Or do
the subtraction. Or whatever. >> which would result in an infinitely large figure for their value of
life... I know it's in bad form to point out someone's ignorance or lack of
education, but you are clearly ignorant of basic mathematics. There's no shame
in that - everyone has to learn, but I will suggest that you will learn more by
studying some basic maths than posting about mathematical concepts. >> Now the big questions; is some nut fanatic out their only blowing people up
>> because they see the opportunity to be valued so highly before god...? Silly.
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