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To: TimF who wrote (4188)	11/23/2004 8:05:48 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7936

but its usefulness is limited by the fact that we can't estimate the likelihood of many types of disasters, the fact that many types of disasters might be things we can't protect against, and by the fact that any dollar figure on the value of avoiding a risk of human extermination is entirely arbitrary. All the more reason to forget about it. I couldn't care less about something with a probability of one in ten million regardless of how utterly catastrophic it might be.