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Vitalik Buterin
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To me, the most underrated counterargument to the Pascal's Wager is that it ignores that your actions can have consequences on either side of zero. Once you take that into account, many things move from "seeming no-brainer" to "totally undecidable omg what the heck do I do"
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@vitalik.eth
(And yes, like all Pascal's Wager discourse in the 2020s, this has an AI safety tie-in. Soooo many actions done in the name of AI safety so far seem to have had very ambiguous consequences (Premise: all the other AI labs are reckless, I'll make one that focuses on safety! 2 years later: we have n+1 reckless AI labs))
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@nikolaii.eth
So "don't worship" is the worst choice. Other two are mathematically equal.
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@polar
what about Nietzsche's eternal recurrence. i bet that one looks sweet
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John Camkiran
@johncamkiran
My favourite interpretation of an ā€˜antigodā€™ is a god that has set up religion as a test to determine which of its creations will not live life more or less like an automaton, despite being instructed to do so.
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@dfern.eth
Pascal's Wager was the original (3,3), few understand this
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@brittkim.eth
What Pascal didn't understand is that the bottom-right quad is actually positive 69.
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@tomconlan
You have 83 years, your mission: to find and believe in the infinite utility idea.
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@elie
Also in a world that God does exist. But you only worshipped him because of Pascal. That God probably thinks youā€™re an idiot and you get -30000 anyway šŸ˜‚ If there is a God, itā€™s doubtful he cares how much you believe in him. Especially as he hasnā€™t made it obvious that he does. He probably does care if youā€™re a good person. And that would be true regardless if you believe in him or not.
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@borst.eth
can I get a hullo laddie
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@braudel
There can be no AntiGod, might be a God who trolls people with "holy scriptures", so believing in scriptures might be the worst thing in this case and not believing scriptures while worshipping the God would be the best.
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You have such thoughts that I don't even know how to put it all in my headšŸ˜³
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Good idea
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the reality allah exist :)
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@vanduc1211
agree it !
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šŸŽ for you on jam.so
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@loui
also expanding the chart to all other religions where there is no god.
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@0x99fran
When you consider that the number of potential deities is infinite and that what is considered ā€œworshipā€ or ā€œdamnable offensesā€ could also be an infinite set it really blows up the square.
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šŸŽ for you on jam.so
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