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This is quite a good point. People often fail to make the distinction between something that happens once every million years to all individual organisms separately versus something that happens once ever million years to the planet itself. Our language is usually ambiguous about this.

This implies that your death and all others are not correlated. I’d argue that if an asteroid hits the death correlation is almost 1.

I think that's what he's trying to point out

I wanted to say the same thing but I attempted to use an intuition pump

Similarly, Vatican City has slightly less than 6 popes per square mile.