How to Calculate Your Risk of Dying

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For any given risk you take, you can think about how many micromortes are you taking? In other words, how many millions of a chance of dying are youtaking? It's really a hundred. There's a couple of COVID calculators that have come out which try to calculate your actual risk of dying from this sort of thing. Just by pure action, like going to a small group or wearing a mask or not, these models are amazing. They're just really hard to get all models or wrong, some are useful, that famous adage.

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How can you live your best life? What's a good definition of "wisdom"? What are some possible taxonomies of life outcomes? What are some low-hanging fruit in the realm of self-improvement? What are some useful behavior change frameworks and techniques?

All his life, James Norris has been searching for the best ways to change himself and change the world. He started as an entrepreneur at age 6 and since has co-founded or helped build 9 businesses and 16 organizations, including the premier conference for the effective altruism movement, the world's first global lifehacking event series, Southeast Asia's first social innovation hackathon series, and a university for today's Leonardo da Vincis. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin as a triple major / quadruple minor. Find more about him at jamesnorris.org and upgradable.org.

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