OrphanWilde comments on Probabilities Small Enough To Ignore: An attack on Pascal's Mugging - Less Wrong
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No. The reason not to spend much time thinking about the I-am-undetectably-insane scenario is not, in general, that it's extraordinarily unlikely. The reason is that you can't make good predictions about what would be good choices for you in worlds where you're insane and totally unable to tell.
This holds even if the probability for the scenario goes up.
In the I-am-undetectably-insane scenario, your predictions about the worlds where you're insane don't even matter, because your subjective experience doesn't actually take place in those worlds anyways.