Whoa, watch out for a very common statistical error. For any particular property with a 10 billion to 1 chance, the probability that it applies to someone living is quite high. If you have a group of properties, each with an independent 10 billion to 1 chance, the probability that someone living has one of these properties is very high indeed.

The fallacy of thinking that winning a lottery is rare is common and has horrible effects like sending innocent people to jail on a regularly basis. For example, if you search Clearview AI for someone who is a 99.99% match for a surveillance picture of someone committing a crime, you should expect tens of thousands of matches. If the AI really did its job, it would return many hits along with a prominent warning that, with very high probability, any given one of these people did not commit a crime!

And, of course, someone always wins the lottery, since that’s the whole point.