Worried about teens taking risks tonight, on New Year’s Eve? Most people think teens take too many risks, and so we should limit the risks teens can take, for their own good. And from the usual lectures we give teens, it seems we think teens underestimate the rate and severity of bad events. But in fact, a recent NYT says teens overestimate drug and sex risks:
Scientific studies have shown that adolescents are very well aware of their vulnerability and that they actually overestimate their risk of suffering negative effects from activities like drinking and unprotected sex.
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Eliezer, enough with your nonsense about cryonicism, life-extensionism, trans-humanism, and the singularity. These things have nothing to do with overcoming bias… if you’re going to enforce the comments policy then you should also self-enforce the overcoming bias posting policy instead of using posts to blithely proselytize your cryonicism / life-extensionism / trans-humanism / singularity religion.