JGWeissman comments on The Fundamental Question - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JGWeissman 23 April 2010 08:26:09PM 1 point [-]

I would distinguish between the general form and the idealized general form. One way to generalize Pascal's wager for belief B, is to compare the expected utilities of believing B and believing one contradictory Belief D in the conditions that B is true and that D is true. This is wrong no matter what belief B you apply it to.