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Sure, but the same goes for anyone talking about how life is meaningless because of the period at the end. We're generally pretty terrible at making our explicit values consistent with out implicit objectives, but it doesn't do much good to invoke an implicit goal to resolve explicit existential angst if we don't acknowledge that goal in the first place.