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Comment author: [deleted] 10 October 2010 03:29:17PM 0 points [-]

It's less consciously privileging "doing nothing" over anything else so much as looking at everything else you'd usually do, not caring about any of those options, thinking up some alternatives, still not caring, and subsequently just doing nothing, possibly because it's easiest.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 10 October 2010 03:33:51PM 1 point [-]

So one does still care about things being easy.

Comment author: [deleted] 10 October 2010 03:37:54PM *  0 points [-]

Possibly, so I guess it's not completely nihilism. Or it's just null-set nihilism: If nothing seems worth doing, do nothing.

Note the fact that, in my original scenario, we considered alternative choices of action. I get the feeling a pure nihilistic engine wouldn't even do that, so I'm already arguing from the wrong point.