[ExI] Avoiding bad black swan events/was Re: extropy-chat Digest, Vol 111, Issue 15

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I didn't say it helped "us in general", just "many of those
> harmed by the unusual weather".

### I don't really care what you said there, I just describe some
reasons why having FEMA around is bad for our society.

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>
> 1) Most of the places hit by Sandy were not considered
> dangerous.  (Unless, say, you consider the whole of
> Manhattan Island to be "dangerous" such that people
> should not live there?)

### Obviously, it is more dangerous in relation to storm surges than
e.g. Boulder, CO. There is a long history of storm surges of similar
or greater magnitude in NY, and they should have prepared better and
should have bought suitable insurance, at prices reflecting the
danger.

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Saying some entity is the "main cause"
> of a thing is saying that they are the cause of that
> thing, and whatever else it may have done relative to
> Hurricane Sandy, the US government did not create it.

### No, I didn't say what you claim I said.

Rafal