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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers (16 Apr 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/
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Caller AGREES With Every Premise But DENIES The Conclusion?! | #MattDillahunty & #Paulogia
Sam from California calls in claiming #PascalsWager isn't a false dichotomy. Matt methodically walks him through the #logic: #Pascal's Wager claims believing in #God means you gain everything while not believing means you lose everything. However, this ignores #gods that might reward intellect over #belief, #morality over #faith, or have no criteria at all.
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To be further accurate, you would also not know how many people are on each track, or whether there are any people at all on each track, or how many tracks there are.
#PascalsWager #trolleyProblem #decisionTheory #apologetics
h/t @AnswersInReason
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To be further accurate, you would also not know how many people are on each track, or whether there are any people at all on each track, or how many tracks there are.
#PascalsWager #trolleyProblem #decisionTheory #apologetics
h/t @AnswersInReason
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To be further accurate, you would also not know how many people are on each track, or whether there are any people at all on each track, or how many tracks there are.
#PascalsWager #trolleyProblem #decisionTheory #apologetics
h/t @AnswersInReason
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Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment about the potential risks involved in developing artificial intelligence. Its conclusion is that an all-powerful artificial intelligence from the future might retroactively punish those who did not help bring about its existence, including those who merely knew about the possible development of such a being. It is named after Roko Mijic, the member of the rationalist community #LessWrong who first publicly described it, though he did not originate the underlying ideas.
The basilisk resembles a futurist version of Pascal's wager, in that it suggests people should weigh possible punishment versus reward and as a result accept particular singularitarian ideas or financially support their development.
Despite widespread #incredulity, this argument is taken quite seriously by some people, primarily some denizens of LessWrong.
#RationalWIki #thoughtexperiment #artificialintelligence #rokosbasilisk #pascalswager #singularity
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On LinkedIn, Alex Zhavoronkov is celebrating (?) publishing nonsense in #Oncoscience in a day using ChatGPT. Citing the EiC likely helped. The AI churned out text on Pascal’s wager in the context of Rapamycin that fails to develop an argument linking religious belief to the merits of life extension.
I hope this is a sting and Alex doesn't stand by the inane content.
#ChatGPT #AIwriting #PredatoryJournals #Stings #LongevityMedicine #PascalsWager #Rapamycin #LinkedIn