From: Randall Randall (randall@randallsquared.com)
Date: Wed Aug 03 2005 - 19:17:12 MDT
On Aug 3, 2005, at 8:41 PM, Daniel Radetsky wrote:
>
> This is not about truth, it's about justification. I am
> not justified in assigning any particular probability to the existence
> of
> plausible exploits. So if I treat it as something I ought to worry
> about, I am
> not justified in doing so, and therefore paranoid.
Okay, here's where I think an error is: whether you should
treat this as something you ought to worry about isn't just
a matter of probability; both the probability *and* the cost
matter. Just using the product of those will provide a more
useful measure of whether it would be in your interest to
worry about it than the probability alone.
-- Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com> "i would like to donate to the eff, except i don't want to be put on a list of terrorists." -- Slashdot user KillShill
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