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I think the reason you’re getting downvoted is pretty much that you’re trying to impose your ideals on others. Some people likely benefit from this library. Som
by asxd 6y ago
I think the reason you’re getting downvoted is pretty much that you’re trying to impose your ideals on others. Some people likely benefit from this library. Some people benefit from the latest video game. If we were all working on curing cancer, the sad truth is that there wouldn’t be very many fun things in life.
- dazzawazza 6y agoHaving a life worth living is something a lot of people forget to do.
- morlockabove 6y agoIf we all worked on things as important as curing cancer, we could build god and live happily forever. Whichever generation manages this will 'win'. (Or they build a paperclipper and ruin the lightcone.)
- t-writescode 6y agoI imagine they said the same thing about trying to find something to kill scary things that get into our bodies and kill us from easy-to-die-to diseases. I see the world has not built god and lived happily, forever, after antibiotics were discovered and used. Something else that's horrible will come along and human tendencies will still prevail and exploit others.
- morlockabove 6y agoModus tollens, modus ponens; my quality of life is vastly improved by not dying of smallpox and equivalent improvements to the world would be very valuable. I think going back to a situation with smallpox would be a big decrease, so that argues against things not really getting better. Building god's just the end-example, even if you never get there you can keep making things better. (I should say that by "build god" I just mean build a friendly AI, i.e. automate science. If that's impossible, just try and do what it would do.) (Hard to enjoy your sex toys when you're coughing your lungs out!)