[ogre_magi]

Do you think you were “lucky” not to be a mosquito?

Do you think you were “lucky” not to be a 100kg mass of disconnected plasma inside the sun?

This doesn’t make any sense. There are different processes in our universe that produce different things, from plasma to rocks to mosquitos to unsuccessful people to successful people.

These processes are different, and their outputs are not fungible. There’s no luck. There’s no sense in which “you” could have been anything except what you are.

[ahevia]

I mean. When folks use the term luck they often just use to express gratitude. Whether that’s to the void or to their god.

It’s weird to point out the usage here. Sure someone can say “I’m grateful the insane probabilities of every small detail that led to today collapsed on me living a good life”, but it’s easier to just say “I’m so lucky”.

> There’s no sense in which “you” could have been anything except what you are.

Perhaps yea, this feels tangential to the argument there is no free will and the universe is 100% deterministic. Maybe I’m reading too much into your comment, but for my lived experience. It certainly doesn’t feel that I was 100% destined to end up here. Im sure others feel the same way that their circumstances were never predetermined.

[Jensson]

That isn't how people usually view luck. If someone says "My success was all luck!", people wouldn't assume that this guy was lucky to be born smart and hard working and therefore worked his ass off to achieve his results with no particularly lucky event happening past his birth. No, they'd assume something like, the guy next to him at a buss stop happened to be this rich businessman and just happened to need something right now, and then that lead to more similar events and now he is the CEO of a big multi national corporation.

[exolymph]

That's the luck, happening to be who you are. Other people happen to be who they are, and that's their luck.

Luck = fate