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What's the lowest amount of money in USD I could pay you to assume a 1% risk of death? (E.g., roll 100 sided dice and if it lands on wrong number, you die)

Under 25k
10.7%
25-100k
11.5%
100k-1 million
23.6%
Over 1 million
54.2%

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6:23 AM · Dec 1, 2019

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11% of people value their life at less than $2,500,000. This makes me incredible sad.

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How painful that death?

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What'd be interesting to think about regarding this question is what sort of death risk we incur with certain activities. Like, what's the risk of death when driving somewhere? What's the risk of death for higher risk jobs? I suppose that's your point, though?

The Angry Philosopher on Drugs

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Dec 1, 2019

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Chronic pain, sooo, yeah. Ten grand would be worth a roll. I have an alternate way of asking the question. "You're in a group of 100, each assigned a number. They roll a D100. That number dies. The rest get paid. How much would you need to participate?

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I would like to say over 1 million but I was in the USAF for 20 yrs and they paid a lot less

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Instant death or painful death?

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Even if your life to you is valued $20m (you'd accept a deal of $20m w/ say, 1 month to live), which is 8x $25k*99 it still might be rational to accept the .01,$25k bet if you don't have money due to increasing the timeliness & odds of catching a positive feedback loop.

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No amount.

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I mean it’s almost free money.