Short note trying to distill + develop the concept of the centaur stage:
A bunch of essays by important Chinese people, mostly about politics, in English:
https://www.readingthechinadream.com/personal-favorites.html
Pascal's Wager doesn't go far enough:
Granted, the Christian God offers infinite rewards, but as far as I can find this is always in terms of "eternal" life or "eternal" communion with him, and so we can be confident that he is offering rewards only as large as the cardinality of the continuum.
So come on down to Crazy Georg's Omega Plus First Church of G...d: If you can conceive of a God advertising any size of infinite reward, G...d will match it.
@Paradox I mean I (/Claude) made the numbers up for illustrative purposes, I tried for ~a minute to find real numbers but couldn't and then didn't care enough 🤷
@Paradox not based on a formal survey but recently had encounter which showed me the power of fat tails (distributions where one side approaches zero slowly)
some women are really lucky and don't use that luck nearly enough
@Paradox yeah gesturing at "orgasms per time" or something (maybe per weekend ;))
@Paradox (many thanks to my good friend Claude for writing the code for this)
Hypothesis: if you take means/totals, there is no orgasm gap between men & women
Yet the medians are vastly different
I operate by Crocker's rules[1].