The problem is that you're not only putting yourself at risk when you don't update.
You're putting everyone who you've talked to at risk. I don't know about you, but I prefer not having to worry about whether I'm communicating with someone whose installation can easily be pwned by any halfway incompetent attacker.
> a update that I not personally security reviewed
Great, can you give me a summary of the updates for the Linux Kernel, Android Kernel, iOS kernel, libssl, and all the drivers that updated this week on my arch machine?
> Sorry, thats not a argument.
Neither is pretending you're reviewing hundreds of thousands of lines of code a week.
This is Hacker News man, some of us actually understand how computers work.
You're putting everyone who you've talked to at risk. I don't know about you, but I prefer not having to worry about whether I'm communicating with someone whose installation can easily be pwned by any halfway incompetent attacker.