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DangitBobby • yesterday at 6:44 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I doubt you are asking in good faith, because I suspect a good faith interlocutor would have worked this out on their own, but I'll proceed anyway.

On the one hand, you've potentially got an indeterminate number of future comfortable years based on a subjective assessment of how long you think it takes catastrophe to materialize, with the downside that you can't warn anyone and so no one will stop the coming catastrophe.

On the other hand you've got the immediate assurance of your current career being gone and high likelihood that you'll struggle financially as a result, with the upside that you can provide a warning to the public that they will almost certainly ignore and catastrophe comes anyway.

Given the risk/reward assessment of those two options, what do you pick?


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bilbo0s • yesterday at 6:57 PM

>Given the risk/reward assessment of those two options, what do you pick?

Listen, I understand that, owing very likely to our differing backgrounds, you and I think differently.

Where threats are concerned, I'm a simple soldier and as such I see things simply.

I would raise the alarm without a second thought. I honestly don't know how anyone could reasonably believe they would have any other option?

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