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You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.

You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.

Greg Egan

Wagers, Pascal, Modern

Greg Egan (2009). “Crystal Nights and Other Stories”, Subterranean

Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

Martin Luther

Wagers, Unseen, Goodness

All of life is a wager

Christopher Hitchens

Wagers, Life Is

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

Michael Pollan

Garden, Tree, Wagers

Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.152, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't.

Christopher Hitchens

Wagers, Life Is, Bohemian

"Christopher Hitchens to Charlie Rose: I'd do it again" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 16, 2010.

To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first.

Alfred Capus

Love You, Firsts, Wagers

Generally, a betting system for which each wager depends only on present resources and present probability of success is known as a Markov betting system.

Richard Arnold Epstein

Wagers, Resources, Probability

"The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Revised Edition". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, Chapter Three, Fundamental Principles Of A Theory Of Gambling, 1977.