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Well, if we're going to start dropping names, Eliezer would "be substantially more worried about a lottery device with a 1 in 1,000,000,000 chance of destroying the world, than a device which destroyed the world if the Judeo-Christian God existed." It's not the same hypothesis, but it's close, and it's stupid to use ethos so much anyway.
No, it's not so low that it deserves 9 downvotes. The fact that it has received so many is disturbing.
I think I'll side with the perspective advanced by Eliezer here: