My probable reaction before reading this, now hopefully replaced by the OP if I can remember it:
Mugger: “Give me five dollars, and I’ll save 3↑↑↑3 lives using my Matrix Powers.”
Me: “Here you—Wait a minute, I could give these to the MIRI, but I can’t do that if I give them to you. There’s, like, 1⁄1 000 000 000 probability you’re speaking the truth, and the probability of them making the difference between a negative and positive singularity, wich’d make a difference for way more people like that all over the multiverse, maybe.”
Mugger: ”… you are terrible at pulling numbers out of your ass. Are you even trying? Unimaginable amounts of lives are on the tine here!”
Me: “I can’t deny any of that. Bye!”
me continues never getting around to actually donating and spends the money of something frivolous
My probable reaction before reading this, now hopefully replaced by the OP if I can remember it:
Mugger: “Give me five dollars, and I’ll save 3↑↑↑3 lives using my Matrix Powers.”
Me: “Here you—Wait a minute, I could give these to the MIRI, but I can’t do that if I give them to you. There’s, like, 1⁄1 000 000 000 probability you’re speaking the truth, and the probability of them making the difference between a negative and positive singularity, wich’d make a difference for way more people like that all over the multiverse, maybe.”
Mugger: ”… you are terrible at pulling numbers out of your ass. Are you even trying? Unimaginable amounts of lives are on the tine here!”
Me: “I can’t deny any of that. Bye!”
me continues never getting around to actually donating and spends the money of something frivolous