Luke_A_Somers comments on Pascal's Muggle: Infinitesimal Priors and Strong Evidence - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 06 May 2013 07:18:18PM 1 point [-]

No, otherwise taking good but long-shot bets would be a case of Pascal's Mugging.

It needs to involve a breakdown in the math because you're basically trying to evaluate infinity/infinity