- Pascal's wager, suggesting it's safer to believe in God, was critiqued by Diderot for being applicable to any religion, not just Christianity.
- The wager, from Pascal's Pensées, was likely a nuanced argument for faith when reason can't prove God's existence, not a logical proof.
- Roko's basilisk, a thought experiment about a future AI punishing those who didn't help create it, mirrors Pascal's wager in a technological context.
- The Zizians, a cult linked to six deaths, allegedly emerged from Roko's basilisk, blurring lines between tech and superstition.