Originally Posted by
SkyNigger
I urinate on Pascal. He was a fucking moron. I was about to launch into a demolition job on the demented 'logic' in Pascal's bullet-hole ridden wager, but the thought struck me that someone would have done it already; likely far better than I could. And I was right.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pascal's_wager
This is not psychology; Pascal's wager is (butchered) game theory.
I didn't bother to read the link but the interesting thing about Pascal/Game Theory is that when Von Neumann died he had a priest do his last rite stuff. Von Neumann said Pascal had a point. I suspect the idea of giving up to rituals and such on your death bed is in fact giving up little to religion yet gaining the chance at eternal salvation. So it would make more sense in the situation. Maybe he just wanted his believing friends to feel better about the whole situation.
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