JamesAndrix comments on That Magical Click - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 January 2010 04:35PM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 21 January 2010 03:41:57AM *  5 points [-]
Comment author: JamesAndrix 21 January 2010 06:58:34AM 2 points [-]

What if life isn't good?

That appears not to be the case. In general, we want to live and want others to live. Where this does not hold, it is generally viewed as the result of something bad, or as a necessary means to prevent something bad.

What if other people dying is good for the survivors?

If that were the case, it would be an example of preventing something bad.