sufferer comments on Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI) - Less Wrong

256 Post author: HoldenKarnofsky 11 May 2012 04:31AM

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Comment author: sufferer 13 May 2012 07:17:28PM 1 point [-]

It all depends on how small that small chance is. Pascal mugging is typically done with probabilities that are exponentially small, e.g. 10^-10 or so.

But what about if Holden is going to not recommend SIAI for donations when there's a 1% or 0.1% chance of it making that big difference.