this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2024
265 points (97.5% liked)

xkcd

8841 readers
4 users here now

A community for a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
265
xkcd #2947: Pascal's Wager Triangle (xkcd.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
43 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Alt text:

In contrast to Pascal's Wager Triangle, Pascal's Triangle Wager argues that maybe God wants you to draw a triangle of numbers where each one is the sum of the two numbers above it, so you probably should, just in case.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Brilliant! This is one of those things that when you see it, it seems so obvious that you wonder how nobody thought of it until now. But it takes someone like Randall to pluck it out of the space of unexplored ideas and present it perfectly.