CarlShulman comments on Pascal's mugging and Bayes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CarlShulman 31 March 2012 12:16:27AM *  2 points [-]

So to summarize: conditional on it being possible to produce huge amounts of stuff, e.g. happy or unhappy human minds, there are likely to be more (expected) effective ways of using money to produce huge amounts of desired stuff than handing it to muggers.