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by cvalka 496 days ago
Exactly. It's a variation of Pascal's Wager for morons.
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I wouldn’t say it’s any worse or better than the original. It basically just swaps some names around.
It's late by hundreds of years. It introduces a lot of unnecessary complexity. The most sophisticated variation of the Wager I've encountered is the Taleb's diatribe against GMO.