A calculated probability of 0.0000001 should diminish the emotional strength of any anticipation, positive or negative, by a factor of ten million.
I don’t play the lottery, but I sometimes have pleasurable daydreams about what I’d do if I were some great success—found the cure for cancer, proved P=NP, won a Nobel prize… objectively speaking, the probability is extremely low, but it doesn’t scale my pleasure down by a million times.
A calculated probability of 0.0000001 should diminish the emotional strength of any anticipation, positive or negative, by a factor of ten million.
I don’t play the lottery, but I sometimes have pleasurable daydreams about what I’d do if I were some great success—found the cure for cancer, proved P=NP, won a Nobel prize… objectively speaking, the probability is extremely low, but it doesn’t scale my pleasure down by a million times.