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Comment by mathusalem on The Pascal's Wager Fallacy Fallacy · 2009-03-18T14:56:11.000Z · LW · GW

these posts are useful to calibrate the commitment and self incentive biases. based on the probabilities espoused (80%, bad outcomes are 'exotic') i say the impact is 1000x. the world looks pretty utopian from the a/c cooled academics labs in US in anno domini 2009.