solipsist comments on What do you mean by Pascal's mugging? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: solipsist 21 November 2014 04:16:08PM *  5 points [-]

The information value of which outcome outweighs the other is HUGE. More expected lives hinge on a 0.0<quintillion zeros>1 shift in the balance of probabilities than would live if we merely colonize the visible universe with humans the size of quarks.