christopherj comments on Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 December 2007 03:04AM

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Comment author: Nominull2 12 December 2007 04:00:11AM 5 points [-]

"Resist against being human" is an interesting choice of words. Surely, most people would not see that as a goal worth pursuing.

Comment author: christopherj 07 December 2013 07:11:45AM 13 points [-]

I am annoyed at many things that are part of being human. In no particular order, mortality, enjoying unhealthy foods, having to exercise to be fit, getting scared of things I know to be safe, becoming confrontational when someone is trying to help me with deeply held but wrong beliefs, poor intelligence and especially memory (other people say otherwise), pathetic mathematical abilities (takes longer than the blink of an eye to divide two 100 digit numbers), spending 1/3 of my time asleep, inability to communicate at more than about 0.005 kB/s, bleeding, requiring an environment with a narrow range of acceptable temperatures, atmospheres, and gravity, and I'm pretty sure I could fill up several pages with things I don't like about being human.