JamesPfeiffer comments on Probabilities Small Enough To Ignore: An attack on Pascal's Mugging - Less Wrong
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Rolling all 60 years of bets up into one probability distribution as in your example, we get:
I think what this shows is that the aggregating technique you propose is no different than just dealing with a 1-shot bet. So if you can't solve the one-shot Pascal's mugging, aggregating it won't help in general.