Lumifer comments on Rationality Quotes Thread February 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Silver_Swift 02 February 2016 09:14:54PM *  4 points [-]

Context: Brady is talking about a safari he took and the life the animals he saw were leading.

Brady: It really was very base, everything was about eating and not dying, pretty amazing.

Grey: Yeah, that is exactly what nature is, that's why we left.

-- Hello internet (link, animated)

Might be more anti-naturalist than strictly rationalist, but I think it still qualifies.

Comment author: Lumifer 03 February 2016 03:47:30PM 3 points [-]

that's why we left

I think he's mistaken in believing we left :-/

Comment author: Silver_Swift 04 February 2016 11:41:05AM 3 points [-]

Well, we're working on it, ok ;)

We obviously haven't left nature behind entirely (whatever that would mean), but we have at least escaped the situation Brady describes, where we are spending most of our time and energy searching for our next meal while preventing ourselves from becoming the next meal for something else.

The life for the average human in first world countries is definitely no longer only about eating and not dying.

Comment author: helldalgo 04 February 2016 03:13:32PM 2 points [-]

Excuse me, my life is only about eating and not dying. ;)