@Meaningness @asilentsky It all seems incoherent and mad to me, but so does the whole bootstrap apocalypse and they take that seriously.
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@Meaningness The difference is in the ε, which I take to refer only to probabilities so small they make max-EU heuristics problematic.
@Meaningness "It's a really good idea for humanity to spend $10M to avert 0.1% of a 50% extinction risk" isn't Pascal's Wager or religion.
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@MemberOfSpecies Right, agreed! I didn’t mean to suggest that, and apologize if my condensed statement was confusing.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Meaningness As I see it, the arguments generally made are, very roughly and informally, in that ballpark. -
@Meaningness Whereas calling them ∞×ε suggests to me something like "even if the probability is one in a billion, the payoff justifies it" - 1 more reply
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