This seems like a classic Pascal’s Wager, and as such probably not a great strategy to follow—see “Pascal’s Mugging” for a discussion of what happens if you start letting people push you around by declaring things to have infinite (or incredibly large) utility in some unlikely scenario.
… but I can’t figure out how this comment got down to −9 points on that basis alone. I’m wondering if your username caused a bunch of people to assume—as I did initially—that you were a spambot, and thus downvote you extra-harshly after a bare skim of your actual comment.
This seems like a classic Pascal’s Wager, and as such probably not a great strategy to follow—see “Pascal’s Mugging” for a discussion of what happens if you start letting people push you around by declaring things to have infinite (or incredibly large) utility in some unlikely scenario.
… but I can’t figure out how this comment got down to −9 points on that basis alone. I’m wondering if your username caused a bunch of people to assume—as I did initially—that you were a spambot, and thus downvote you extra-harshly after a bare skim of your actual comment.