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It’s hilarious to me that Roko’s Basilisk maps perfectly to Pascal’s Wager, but they just can’t see it. It’s like any other exclusive religion: your god is made
by wat10000 2y ago
It’s hilarious to me that Roko’s Basilisk maps perfectly to Pascal’s Wager, but they just can’t see it. It’s like any other exclusive religion: your god is made up, ours is real.
- cvalka 2y agoExactly. It's a variation of Pascal's Wager for morons.
- wat10000 2y agoI wouldn’t say it’s any worse or better than the original. It basically just swaps some names around.
- cvalka 2y agoIt's late by hundreds of years. It introduces a lot of unnecessary complexity. The most sophisticated variation of the Wager I've encountered is the Taleb's diatribe against GMO.
- DonHopkins 2y ago[flagged]
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- Barrin92 2y ago>Roko’s Basilisk maps perfectly to Pascal’s Wager The entire thing maps 1:1 onto Millenarian theology, including the singularity and literal doomsday rhetoric. I think it was Charles Stross who called it duck typed Evangelicalism at one point
- DonHopkins 2y agoDown to the walks and quacks.
- wat10000 2y ago> duck typed Evangelicalism I definitely need to remember that one.
- waveBidder 2y agolike, treatments of it I've seen are explicitly discussed in that context? It's also described as Pascal's mugging.