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The probability of losing your life to a cosmic ray bit-flip is increasing daily (lemmy.ml)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Since the set of all remaining time only shrinks, the possibility of anything ever happening at least once in all time should also shrink unless it already happened.

And things happening at a rate per second doesn't mean it increases either if it hasn't happened yet. The probability of me being eaten by a dinosaur today is definitely not higher compared to being eaten by a dinosaur yesterday.