scientism comments on Mike Darwin on Steve Jobs's hypocritical stance towards death - Less Wrong

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Comment author: scientism 08 October 2011 05:05:33PM 4 points [-]

Jobs's statement came in the part of the speech where he talks about how knowledge of the possibility of death can motivate a life well lived. He does say about dying that "that is how it should be" but he never says that you should accept death, he says that knowing you're going to die someday is a great motivator. Presumably it motivated him to get a liver transplant. I don't really see any hypocrisy.