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0 pointsarugulum6y ago0 comments

>Has the same issue as Pascal's.

I get the feeling that some people (maybe not this commenter) are missing the point I'm making.

Yes, Pascal's wager is flawed - which is why I'm modeling the Altman's wager after it.

I thought I had made the wording and respective payoff statements sufficiently tongue-in-cheek, but I guess this is Poe's law biting back.

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notahacker6y ago

tbf I wasn't 100% sure whether you were tongue-in-cheek or had just spent way too much time taking variants of this argument seriously on LessWrong...

(also, as much as I'm also tongue in cheek when talking about AGIs punishing [infinite numbers of simulations of] Sam Altman for backing the wrong AGI project, I'm dead serious about them potentially being able to turn a decent profit selling advanced data processing to Silicon Valley startups. And let's face it, Sam's a much better CEO to be able to help them achieve that than AI Rapture anyway)

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