Edit: And yes, I would do fucking anything for my child

i expect my payment in reddit gold. Minimum 50,000 worth. That or you can explain to me where my argument goes wrong.

the problem is you're not "cutting off your arm to save your child's life" you are cutting off your arm for some infinitesimally small chance that this is the marginal thing that saves their life.

you're commiting yourself to some pretty strange arguments if you don't care about how tiny a risk there is. for instance this is how someone explains what 1E-67 is

Or second, that despite our best efforts, a research institute completes an unfriendly superintelligence. They are seconds away from running the program for the first time when, just as the lead researcher’s finger hovers over the ENTER key, a tornado roars into the laboratory. The researcher is sucked high into the air. There he is struck by a meteorite hurtling through the upper atmosphere, which knocks him onto the rooftop of a nearby building. He survives the landing, but unfortunately at precisely that moment the building is blown up by Al Qaeda. His charred corpse is flung into the street nearby. As the rubble settles, his face is covered by a stray sheet of newspaper; the headline reads 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ENDS WITH TRUMP AND SANDERS IN PERFECT TIE. In small print near the bottom it also lists the winning Powerball numbers, which perfectly match those on a lottery ticket in the researcher’s pocket. Which is actually kind of funny, because he just won the same lottery last week.

how much money are you willing to pay say a genie to guarantee that precise scenario doesn't happen to your child? To me this sort of chance is so trivial and strange i wouldn't pay much for this protection especially since i could use that money in many other ways to set them up for a good life that are much more efficient/productive.