Toby Stuart argues that the French philosopher Blaise Pascal can teach us how to make rational choices in the AI era.

After his return to Catholicism, Blaise Pascal proposed a famous wager in his masterwork Pensées (Thoughts), taking a mere paragraph to do it. Since the existence of God cannot be proven, Pascal took ...

L’homme n’est qu’un roseau, le plus faible de la nature, mais c’est un roseau pensant. [Man is a reed, the feeblest thing in nature. But a reed that can think.] –Pascal Fourteen years ago, I commented ...