Will_Newsome comments on Secrets of the eliminati - Less Wrong

93 Post author: Yvain 20 July 2011 10:15AM

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Comment author: Hul-Gil 25 July 2011 08:53:06AM *  -1 points [-]

I read it. I downvoted it¹ because it seems pretty nonsensical to me, in more than a few ways; I won't go into that, though - see my previous comment.

The ideas that humans are special and animals thus have no souls & that this "is the best of all possible words" are morally repugnant to me, too. I would have mentally quadruple-downvoted you except for your idea about God reversing evil computations... so it's only a mental triple-downvote. :p

¹I didn't actually downvote it, because it was already at -5 when I saw it, and I want some discussion to come out of it. I think it deserves those downvotes, though.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 25 July 2011 09:30:42AM 2 points [-]

That's completely fair. I just don't like when I make a long comment and it gets downvoted before I can click on the Will_Newsome link, ha. In retrospect I shouldn't have said anything.