There’s a strange, misanthropic common thread running through stories in the news about Ebola quarantines, the rush of enterprises to the public cloud and the increasingly common but shockingly still non-fatal fad of taking selfies with wild bears.

There’s almost no overlap in the substance of the stories, but all three demonstrate a fundamental characteristic of humans in the modern world: We are good at identifying theoretical risks, but really bad at knowing which threats we should actually fear and which are worth putting up with for the potential benefit of having survived them.

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