An event that's very unlikely is still worth thinking about, if the consequences are big enough. What's the limit though?

Do we have to devote all of our resources to any outcome that might give infinite payoffs, even if it seems basically impossible? Does the case for AI Safety rely on this kind of Pascal's Wager argument? Watch this video to find out that the answer to these questions is 'No'.

Correction: At 6:34 the embedded video says 3^^^3 has 3.6 trillion digits, but that's actually only the size of 3^^4. 3^^^3 is enormously larger.

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