this guy just provoked a fight and no it's not pascal's mugging, that is not what the words "pascal's mugging" mean, it's a description of a threat, it's a probably-incorrect prediction, it's not a pascal's mugging

@TetraspaceGrouping Isn’t it basically the same as pascal’s wager?

@noop_noob [breathes in]

Well, you see,

[Hold on, let me actually recheck Roko's original post]

Oh yeah, good point, he did drop this in the comments:

> It doesn't have to be probable. It just has to be not-cosmically improbable. Even 0.01% would be really bad.

Never mind, Roko's exposition does appeal to Pascal, I guess I have some Ls to take.

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