Each repeated tails result constitutes new evidence that the agent is disinclined to wager for God, rationally updating the prior that the mixed strategy will converge to wagering for God.
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Wager for God(a famous philosophical argument about faith and probability)
A reference to Pascal's Wager, the idea of choosing to believe in and live as if God exists because the potential benefit (eternal reward) outweighs the cost of being wrong.
agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)
The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor
mixed strategy(The uniform three-way randomization over bridges is the mixed strategy under analysis.)
A strategy in which a player assigns probabilities over available actions and randomizes according to that distribution.