Yes, but on this forum there should be some reasonable immunity against instances of Pascal’s wager/mugging like that. The comment in question does not rise above the noise level, so treating it seriously shows how far many regulars still have to go in learning the basics.
it’s both amusing and disconcerting that people on this forum treat such a comment seriously.
I try to treat all comments with some degree of seriousness, which can be expressed as a floating-point number between 0 and 1 :-)
Isn’t the SIAI founded on the supposition that a scenario like this is possible?
Yes, but on this forum there should be some reasonable immunity against instances of Pascal’s wager/mugging like that. The comment in question does not rise above the noise level, so treating it seriously shows how far many regulars still have to go in learning the basics.