Clarity comments on Probabilities Small Enough To Ignore: An attack on Pascal's Mugging - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Clarity 16 September 2015 11:17:41PM 1 point [-]

The way I see it, if one believes that the range of possible extremes of positive or negative values is greater than the range of possible probabilities then one would have reason to treat rare high/low value events as more important than more frequent events.