hairyfigment comments on Rationality Quotes Thread September 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hairyfigment 02 October 2015 02:21:54AM -1 points [-]

Balderdash. The link argues that people do not want to keep living for even a matter of millenia if they "have nothing to live for," in the author's own words (and he argues that most people only care about having/raising children, which they lose interest in). This is clearly evidence for people being indifferent between existence and non-existence without a goal, or "neutral" as you put it before you somehow forgot that alternative.

Comment author: entirelyuseless 02 October 2015 12:21:06PM *  0 points [-]

That would still mean that existence was overall good for them by giving them the possibility of raising children (or reaching other goals they might have), which they would not have otherwise.