Rationalists and Effective Altruism people fall for this stuff _constantly_. Roko's Basilisk being the canonical example of it. They assign infinite negative

Rationalists and Effective Altruism people fall for this stuff _constantly_. Roko's Basilisk being the canonical example of it. They assign infinite negative or postive values to outcomes and then it doesn't mighter what the likelihood or how much they uncertainty they have everywhere else, they insist that they need to do everything possible to cause or prevent whatever that outcome is. Aside from other problems with it, there are a vast number of highly improbable and near-infinitely bad or good outcomes that might possibly occur which would require completey different actions if you're concerned about them.