“You can roll the dice as many times as you like, but you can’t think about the world until 9 comes up twelve times in a row. Then you can think about it for a minute. After that you have to start rolling the die again.”
You may have hit upon a great way in general to get people to put improbable but vivid risks in perspective. Scared of flying on that plane? Don’t take youre flight only if you role your X sided dice and get the number C, y many times. Etc. It’s worth expanding upon as a solution to how irrational fears can warp the actions of generally fairly rational people.
“You can roll the dice as many times as you like, but you can’t think about the world until 9 comes up twelve times in a row. Then you can think about it for a minute. After that you have to start rolling the die again.”
You may have hit upon a great way in general to get people to put improbable but vivid risks in perspective. Scared of flying on that plane? Don’t take youre flight only if you role your X sided dice and get the number C, y many times. Etc. It’s worth expanding upon as a solution to how irrational fears can warp the actions of generally fairly rational people.