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Rationally Speaking #181 - William MacAskill on "Moral Uncertainty"

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The Infinite Expected Value of Going to Heaven

Any chance of going to heaven has infinite expected value because we said, look at the probability and multiply by the value. So as far as this argument goes, there's nothing to choose between going to church and flipping a coin going to church with its heads. You'll be greater than any merely finite amount of good that you might have by not going to church but instead having a nice lunch on a Sunday morning.

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