Gurkenglas comments on The Pascal's Wager Fallacy Fallacy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gurkenglas 18 May 2013 08:24:05PM *  0 points [-]

There is a minuscule probability that during the next 10 seconds, nanomachines produced by a fresh GAI sweep in through your window and capture you for infinite life and thus, by your argument, infinite hell. Building on your argumentation, the case can be made that you should strive to minimize the probability of that outcome. Therefore, suicide.

Edit: My point has already been made by Eliezer. Lets see how this retracting thingy works.