Tenoke comments on Musk, Mars and x-risk - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 24 November 2012 12:00:52AM 4 points [-]

If you are against everything you must (as in it is logical that) you must hate the situation

This doesn't follow at all unless one is using a non-standard notion of hate. For example, given the choice I'd rather watch Casablanca than Field of Dreams, but they are both excellent movies. I wouldn't "hate" watching Field of Dreams.

the point was that no use of resources is optimal.

This makes me even more confused. How do I know that no use is optimal? Moreover, even if there isn't any optimal use, how does that not make some uses substantially more optimal than others?

Comment author: Tenoke 24 November 2012 12:39:51AM *  -1 points [-]

Theoretically there is an optimal use, practically you can't calculate the optimal use and nothing you do is optimal. Anyway I retracted my previous 2 comments because this is kind of going in circles.

Comment author: PaulS 24 November 2012 01:29:47AM 5 points [-]

It doesn't follow from the fact that you don't know the optimal use of resources that you should settle for anything slightly positive.

Comment author: Tenoke 24 November 2012 01:31:16AM 0 points [-]

Yes!