Will_Sawin comments on Pascal's Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities - Less Wrong
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That observation applies to humans, who also tend not to kill large numbers of people for no payoff (that is, if you've already refused the money and walked away).
That's a symmetric effect, though.