03-26-2004, 12:52 AM
"For Jester: If you believe and are wrong, wrong is wrong. The idea is that of "Is or Isn't" not what flavor."
The problems with the Wager are even deeper than "the incorrects vastly outnumber the corrects".
We don't even know if there's only one correct answer, or three thousand, or whether the outer heavens are a many tiered place, as Dante envisioned. We don't know if belief is the required entrance pass, or if it can be entered at all. Maybe only one single geisha is getting into heaven. Perhaps only cats who aspire to write poetry will go to hell. Or maybe only three of them will, and hell is a cube filled with lemon custard.
We don't know anything about this topic. All we have is complete, shot-in-the-dark guesses. Feel free to make one, but I give predicitions or game theory models exactly no value in this context.
Jester
The problems with the Wager are even deeper than "the incorrects vastly outnumber the corrects".
We don't even know if there's only one correct answer, or three thousand, or whether the outer heavens are a many tiered place, as Dante envisioned. We don't know if belief is the required entrance pass, or if it can be entered at all. Maybe only one single geisha is getting into heaven. Perhaps only cats who aspire to write poetry will go to hell. Or maybe only three of them will, and hell is a cube filled with lemon custard.
We don't know anything about this topic. All we have is complete, shot-in-the-dark guesses. Feel free to make one, but I give predicitions or game theory models exactly no value in this context.
Jester