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Why is it sometimes called dumb luck?


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Just now, fuggstop said:

I got hit from behind riding my bike when i was 10. Rolled over the whole car and didn't break one bone. Dumb luck lol

yup. a damn good example of it too. once got got hit by a car and some how got cushioned by air and didn't get hurt at all. I still don't understand how that happened

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3 hours ago, Mix said:

but never smart luck?

I wasn't even aware you could attribute intelligence to an immeasurable universal force that arbitrarily influences probability 

 

 

Dumb simply means random, or at least not fundamentally predictable.

All luck is dumb.

There's no good luck, there's no bad luck.

Most people will go through their lives as never win the lottery.

Most people will also probably never get hit my lightning.

Unless you're one of those people that believe the universe is a simulation and every last atom is already presdestined to follow a single path from start to finish, luck is just random chance, happenstance and coincidence. Otherwise, luck could be quantifiable given enough processing power to copy our simulation down to the most perfect imitation. It could be possible. Highly unprobable, though.

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