Multiheaded comments on Feeling Rational - Less Wrong

76 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 April 2007 04:48AM

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Comment author: Multiheaded 08 July 2011 03:01:39PM *  4 points [-]

You so completely miss the damn point that, after downvoting you once for willfully insulting Eliezer's completely rational and well-expressed intimate feelings, I'd downvote you 10 times for general stupidity. "Reason" can only be driven by an external cause! (whether it's hedonism, ambition, curiosity, altruism, etc) If all YOU truly cared about was the "things-just-are", you'd act completely at random, which is hard to conceive even in a mental patient.

We need the truth as a weapon to carve what we want from an uncaring universe and keep it from squashing us. Yet it can only illuminate and clarify our desires, not shape them.

EDIT: after looking at Mr. Bider's profile and contributions, I have a weak suspicion that he's a troll. Well, I don't care about that.