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Don't have to be additive to "add up".

>If you sleep under a tree 4999 times and nothing happens, that doesn’t mean the 5000 time you sleep under one you’ll get crushed.

No, but it means you have far more overall chances of getting crushed if you do it 5000 times, than if you do it once or twice.



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