Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Rationality Quotes December 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 12 December 2014 10:58:23PM 0 points [-]

A quote from my son (just turned eleven years):

Me: "What is the meaning of life?"

He: "To live it."

This sounds trite but I think it is actually the correct (or most sensible) answer. I was kind of impressed. Maybe we should ask children more of these grande questions and gain factual answers instead of taking them as deeper as they are.

Comment author: Salemicus 13 December 2014 12:12:19PM *  3 points [-]

I prefer:

To be the eyes, and ears, and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast Of Champions

Comment author: LizzardWizzard 13 December 2014 09:31:34AM 0 points [-]

Maybe we should ask children more of these grande questions and gain factual answers instead of taking them as deeper as they are.

Indeed, I suppose their worldview are much clearer and in some ways unbiased than ours. When child is born he sees the world as it is, not through many prisms including our subjective value judgements

Comment author: Capla 12 December 2014 11:11:56PM 1 point [-]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvMiXk2gGSk

Insightful? I give him credit for his epistemic humility, at least.