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hairyfigment comments on Risk Contracts: A Crackpot Idea to Save the World - Less Wrong Discussion

-2 Post author: SquirrelInHell 30 September 2016 02:36PM

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Comment author: hairyfigment 30 September 2016 08:00:39PM 0 points [-]

OK, give me US $1000 now and I promise to pay you back $1000.01 in ten years.

Comment author: Lumifer 30 September 2016 08:43:05PM 0 points [-]

That's a loan, not a bet.

Comment author: hairyfigment 30 September 2016 10:34:43PM 0 points [-]

The only form of bet I'll accept if I'm betting that humanity won't exist in 10 years.

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