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Although this kind of 'playing safe' has something in common with pascals wager, this article is not describing pascals wager, which considers a very specific potential reward/cost.
This is the 'intentional stance' that Dennett describes in Breaking the Spell.
Scrappy article. Why are we told nothing about the study? (except for the conclusions drawn from it).
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