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Lemmus,
"Maybe I can cure everybody's cancer by wishing for it very, very hard."
Give it a go. Hell, spend the rest of your life giving it a go. You'll be engaging with reality in much the same way as Eliezer's acquaintance. We ascribe probabilities to things to inform our actions.
Actually, isn't this called "prayer"?