timtyler comments on Pascal's Mugging - Penalizing the prior probability? - Less Wrong
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I don't mean to imply a threshold between huge utilities and other kinds - just that the larger the utilities promised you by strangers requesting up-front errands, the more evidence you shoud look for - to ensure that you are not being taken for a ride.
The whole "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" bit.