At 1:31 AM +0300 10/21/00, Sampo A Syreeni wrote:
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
not insuring such a person. The things we're concerned with are conditions such as a familial tendency towards heart disease or a possibility of developing diabetes later in life. For the most part, they're not things that prevent people from holding jobs and having money.
Which is precisely why there is no reason these people should not have their insurance at precisely the same rate as everybody else - you cannot foresee whether any particular individual will get the disease.
You need to brush up on "probabalistic reasoning." If you think "you cannot foresee..." when a family history or genetic test suggests one _can_ make money by betting, then you simply have a very poor intuition about odds, statistics, and gambling. As with Saper, the rest of your stuff is not even worth replying to. ---Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.