Viliam_Bur comments on Open thread for December 17-23, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dhoe 18 December 2013 08:22:18PM 4 points [-]

What's so great about rationality anyway? I care a lot about life and would find it a pity if it went extinct, but I don't care so much about rationality, and specifically I don't really see why having the human-style half-assed implementation of it around is considered a good idea.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 18 December 2013 09:17:49PM 2 points [-]

I care a lot about life and would find it a pity if it went extinct

So far, humans are the life's best bet for surviving the day our Sun goes supernova.

why having the human-style half-assed implementation of it around is considered a good idea

Because we don't have better one (yet?).

Comment author: shminux 19 December 2013 02:22:25AM *  0 points [-]

So far, humans are the life's best bet for surviving the day our Sun goes supernova.

Not to detract from your point, but that's pretty unlikely. Unless it becomes a part of a tight binary star several billion years down the road, when it has turned into a white dwarf. Of course, by then Earth will have been destroyed during the Sun's red giant stage.