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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 June 2012 05:30:52AM 21 points [-]

I am thiiiiiiiiis confident!

(Holds arms wide, then accepts any well-specified bet as if the actual probability of Christianity were zero, i.e., with betting prices corresponding to the probability of the specified evidence being observed, given the fixed assumption that Christianity is false.)

Comment author: Unknowns 05 May 2015 07:25:25AM 0 points [-]

This calls into question your claim that you won't accept bets that would call into question your ability to pay if you lose.

What do think is the probability (given the fixed assumption that Christianity is false) that sometime before 2045 you will have the psychological experience of a vision of Christ claiming to be risen from the dead?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 May 2015 11:46:54PM 1 point [-]

Preeeeeeeeeeeetty small, and I nonetheless won't accept any bets that I couldn't pay off if I lost, because that's deontologically dishonorable.