khafra comments on The scourge of perverse-mindedness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: khafra 22 March 2010 02:48:11PM 3 points [-]

Your personally being inconvenienced by the heat death of the universe is even less likely than winning the powerball lottery; if you wouldn't spend $1 on a lottery ticket, why spend $1 worth of time worrying about the limits of entropy? Sure, it's the most unavoidable of existential risks, but it's vanishingly unlikely to be the one that gets you.

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 22 March 2010 03:13:07PM 19 points [-]

Why should I only emotionally care about things that will affect me?

I don't see any good reason to be seriously depressed about any Far fact; but if any degree of sadness is ever an appropriate response to anything Far, the inevitability of death seems like one of the best candidates.