I think the large part of this phenomenon is social status. I.e., if you die early, it means that you did something really embarassingly stupid. Conversely, if you caused someone to die by, say, faulty construction or insufficient medical intervention, you should be really embarassed. If you can’t prove/reliably signal that you behaving reasonably, you are incentivized to behave unreasonaboy safe to signal your commitment to not do stupid things. It’s also probably linked to trade-off between social status and desire for reproduction. It also explains why people who are worried about endless list of harms are not that worried about human extinction: if everybody is dead, there is nobody to be embarassed around.
Extreme sports plateauing is likely weak indicator. Even as risks decrease, you still need to enjoy it and most of people are not adrenaline junkies.
I think the large part of this phenomenon is social status. I.e., if you die early, it means that you did something really embarassingly stupid. Conversely, if you caused someone to die by, say, faulty construction or insufficient medical intervention, you should be really embarassed. If you can’t prove/reliably signal that you behaving reasonably, you are incentivized to behave unreasonaboy safe to signal your commitment to not do stupid things. It’s also probably linked to trade-off between social status and desire for reproduction. It also explains why people who are worried about endless list of harms are not that worried about human extinction: if everybody is dead, there is nobody to be embarassed around.
Extreme sports plateauing is likely weak indicator. Even as risks decrease, you still need to enjoy it and most of people are not adrenaline junkies.