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Comment by ipaddr

14 hours ago

"But are you worried that every human on Earth will be hit by a meteorite right now? That probability is also non-zero, yet it is so infinitesimally small that we treat it as an impossibility."

This might be a bad example because one meteorite could take out the world and given enough time is likely to.

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