Shane_Patt comments on Antidote to Pascal's Wager - Less Wrong

-10 Post author: Strange7 04 September 2015 12:41AM

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Comment author: entirelyuseless 04 September 2015 02:23:52PM 2 points [-]

What is the purpose of this post?

Comment author: Shane_Patt 06 September 2015 02:28:20AM 0 points [-]

The goal seems to be to construct a plausible entity such that, if Pascal's Wager is applied to this entity rather than to the Christian deity, it becomes an argument for atheism rather than Christianity—thus refuting the Wager by reductio ad absurdum. The payload is the first two sentences; the rest is just elaboration on the fact that knowledge about Athe would be an infohazard if taken seriously.

Comment author: Strange7 21 September 2015 10:45:21AM 0 points [-]

This is an adequately accurate summary, though you may have missed the pun.