Kawoomba comments on Rationality Quotes January 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 11 January 2013 09:56:03PM 10 points [-]

Eh. Would you say that "humans aren't capable of evil. Evolution makes them that way"?

Comment author: Kawoomba 11 January 2013 10:10:20PM 2 points [-]

"Evolution isn't capable of evil. Time made it that way."

Zugzwang: your turn!

Comment author: benelliott 12 January 2013 09:36:18AM *  3 points [-]

"Time isn't capable of evil, its not even an optimization process."

Comment author: [deleted] 12 January 2013 07:15:45PM 2 points [-]

[Time i]s not even an optimization process.

Yes it is. Its optimizand is entropy.

Epistemic status: interesting idea I think I've heard somewhere. Don't dare to ask me if I believe it myself or I will ask you to taboo words and you don't want to do that.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 January 2013 10:58:07PM 5 points [-]

"DO NOT MESS WITH TIME"

Comment author: [deleted] 12 January 2013 11:34:11PM *  0 points [-]

But evolution isn't sapient and... Or isn't it?

[Edited to remove potentially mind-killing example.]

Comment author: KnaveOfAllTrades 13 January 2013 08:41:18AM -1 points [-]

Who?

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