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Pascal's wager is mainly faulty because it relies on a complete lack of information, unlike climate change where we have some information. If we had any clues a
by gboudrias 8y ago
Pascal's wager is mainly faulty because it relies on a complete lack of information, unlike climate change where we have some information. If we had any clues at all that any existing gods are benevolent, it would most definitely be the right choice from a pragmatic perspective. If we circle back to climate change as an example, it's hard to be certain but that's still a lot of clues telling us we should do something.
I assume you're not headed into religious debate territory but I don't imagine pragmatists focus much on metaphysical matters (I know I don't).
- Vinnl 8y agoRight, so how about AI then? There's a very small risk that AI would become extremely malicious and wipe out the entire race. In other words, the risk is infinite. Since there is some (albeit very little) information that this might happen, should we spend all our resources on preventing that?
- gboudrias 8y agoI don't follow?