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by gus_massa 2326 days ago
That is essentially the same argument than in the Pascal's wager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager
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Not really.

Pascal's wager has no information. You know nothing of the state of god's existence.

The precautionary principle uses current equalibrium as the default.

The current working equalibrium embeds information.

The precautionary principle does not state it will result in the best outcome. Only that it's more likely to not have the worst.