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RRand comments on The Up-Goer Five Game: Explaining hard ideas with simple words - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RRand 07 September 2013 08:39:26PM 5 points [-]

(With slightly more fidelity to Mr. Pascal's formulation:)

You have nothing to lose.

You have much to get. God can give you a lot.

There might be no God. But a chance to get something is better than no chance at all.

So go for it.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 14 September 2013 01:18:43PM 0 points [-]

Nitpicking:

You have nothing to lose.

You have little to lose. (For example, you waste your Sunday mornings. That's not nothing.)