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The chance of a small glitch or anything that did not happen in the past is as likely as a ghost dinosaur coming up to you and scamming you out of all your money.

Looking at the past through a probabilistic lens is irrational, unless you are doing it to predict the future through information collection.

Sort of, of topic but anyway….

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I don't know why you were downvoted but it's true. My dad was almost scammed this past weekend. Or kind of scammed. The thing is that of a group of 200, 195 were scammed and he wasn't (or he was, but he got what he paid for in the end). And he wasn't just because a random event, he was very luck.

I kept thinking in how lucky he was and how sad my family would be if he was part of the 195. But it didn't happen. Maybe in an alternate timeline (?), but not on this one. Worry about what could have happened is not worth it. To induce stress for things that did not happen is not worth it. Yes, we can use it to learn for future opportunities, but that should be all.

I kept waiting for the part where the scammer turned out to be the ghost of a dinosaur.

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