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About Ranmoth
Ranmoth is a Student living in Tulsa, OK.
- Member since: 2007
On January 3, 2007 Ranmoth Discussed
Sleeping Without Saddam
- and said:
This reminds me of a recent Time magazine article on why we worry about the wrong things. Hypothetically, we shouldn’t worry ourselves too much about things that aren’t terribly likely to happen, e.g., Saddam Hussein escaping prison to come kill you(statistically speaking, there is about a one in 300,000,000 chance of Hussein randomly choosing you out of the United States’ citizens to be his revenge victim, assuming the also unlikely chance of escape and random vengeance-killing). Of course, unlikely things are often terrible things to us because of their very unfamiliarity, and an incident such as this is certainly not a common occurance for most.
All in all, as a risk-assessmet piece, I wouldn’t recommend this article to the Pentagon, but as a humor article I’d say it’s pretty darn good. 
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On January 3, 2007 Ranmoth Discussed
The Y10k Problem
- and said:
In order to gain a deeper understanding of the project, as well as the philosophical/sociological/scientific/etc. underpinnings of long-term thinking, I would highly recommend reading The Clock of the Long Now by Stewart Brand. Sure, it was written eight years ago, but on a cosmic timescale that doesn’t give you enough time to hiccup.
On January 3, 2007 Ranmoth Discussed
Sleeping Without Saddam
- and said:
This reminds me of a recent Time magazine article on why we worry about the wrong things. Hypothetically, we shouldn’t worry ourselves too much about things that aren’t terribly likely to happen, e.g., Saddam Hussein escaping prison to come kill you(statistically speaking, there is about a one in 300,000,000 chance of Hussein randomly choosing you out of the United States’ citizens to be his revenge victim, assuming the also unlikely chance of escape and random vengeance-killing). Of course, unlikely things are often terrible things to us because of their very unfamiliarity, and an incident such as this is certainly not a common occurance for most.
All in all, as a risk-assessmet piece, I wouldn’t recommend this article to the Pentagon, but as a humor article I’d say it’s pretty darn good.
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In order to gain a deeper understanding of the project, as well as the philosophical/sociological/scientific/etc. underpinnings of long-term thinking, I would highly recommend reading The Clock of the Long Now by Stewart Brand. Sure, it was written eight years ago, but on a cosmic timescale that doesn’t give you enough time to hiccup.