Thursday, February 09, 2006

Divine Futures

"As Samuel Butler admitted in his Notebooks (1912): 'What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be: '"I bet that my Redeemer liveth."'

Profits of Doom

Pascal used infinity to show that belief in god is rational. If you believe in god you might get into heaven even if the chance is extremely small, if you don't believe in god then you can never get into heaven. Since the utility of heaven is infinite, the expected value of believing in god is infinite bliss, therefore its rational to believe in god.

Hey I'll make a two-way market in it, you probably wouldn't like the spreads though.

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