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Luke_A_Somers comments on Being Half-Rational About Pascal's Wager is Even Worse - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 April 2013 05:20AM

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 18 April 2013 09:31:07PM 0 points [-]

I think it was more like (moderate probability of success)*(monumental heap of utility if it works) = (a great investment) so this argument clearly doesn't apply.