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Conversely, the inability of a putative Pascal's Mugger to make such predictions ought to apply a significant penalty to the plausibility of its claim. And simply increasing the threatened disutility won't necessarily help, since the more powerful the entity claims to be, the greater should be the implausibility of its inability to make testable predictions.