CarlShulman comments on Being Half-Rational About Pascal's Wager is Even Worse - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 April 2013 05:20AM

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Comment author: CarlShulman 18 April 2013 11:17:03PM 1 point [-]

"And then we can actually persuade the military to pay attention to us..."

The government did sit on it for quite a while, delaying the bomb until after the defeat of Germany. Nudges from Britain were important in getting things moving.

Comment author: SilasBarta 19 April 2013 12:18:58PM 1 point [-]

The military "paid attention to them" long before that though.