Lumifer comments on No Universally Compelling Arguments in Math or Science - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 11 November 2013 07:50:41PM *  3 points [-]

You can, of course, climb the abstraction tree high enough to make this fit. I don't think it's a useful exercise, though.

Power-hungry humans do NOT operate by "making a lot of money and purchasing ... resources". They generally spread certain memes and use force. At least those power-hungry humans implied by the "look how that keeps turning out" part.