RichardKennaway comments on Rationality Quotes: April 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 05 April 2011 11:32:33AM 1 point [-]

moral order of the universe

The moral order is within us.

Comment author: moshez 05 April 2011 12:55:49PM 3 points [-]

And we are within the universe! So that all works out nicely.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 05 April 2011 01:58:10PM 1 point [-]

We're only a small part of it, though. The rest is "the motivationless malice of directed acyclic causal graphs".

Comment author: moshez 05 April 2011 02:04:44PM 3 points [-]

How do you measure "small"? Us humans had a disproprotionate effect on our immediate surroundings, and that effect is going to continue throughout our lightcone if everything goes according to plan.

Comment author: Mycroft65536 05 April 2011 02:41:41PM 8 points [-]

... if everything goes according to plan.

I think you're supposed to laugh evilly there.

Mwahahahaha