I and most other people (I’m pretty sure) wouldn’t chase the highest probability of infinite utility, since most of those scenarios are also highly implausible and feel very similar to Pascal’s mugging.
So my claim I’m trying to defend here is not that we should be willing to hand over our wallet in Pascal’s mugging cases.
Instead its a conditional claim that if you are the type of person who finds the Mugger’s argument compelling then then the logic which leads you to find it compelling actually gives you reason not to hand over your wallet as there are more plausible ways of attempting to elicit the infinite utility than dealing with the mugger.
I and most other people (I’m pretty sure) wouldn’t chase the highest probability of infinite utility, since most of those scenarios are also highly implausible and feel very similar to Pascal’s mugging.
So my claim I’m trying to defend here is not that we should be willing to hand over our wallet in Pascal’s mugging cases.
Instead its a conditional claim that if you are the type of person who finds the Mugger’s argument compelling then then the logic which leads you to find it compelling actually gives you reason not to hand over your wallet as there are more plausible ways of attempting to elicit the infinite utility than dealing with the mugger.
I see, that makes sense, and I agree with it.