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

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Comment author: steven 18 March 2009 01:02:42AM 0 points [-]

There are negative possibilities (woken up in dystopia and not allowed to die) but they are exotic, not having equal probability weight to counterbalance the positive possibilities.

Expected utility is the product of two things, probability and utility. Saying the probability is smaller is not a complete argument.