Nick_Tarleton comments on The Magnitude of His Own Folly - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 September 2008 11:31AM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 30 September 2008 12:59:02PM 1 point [-]

I understood that you could do everything that you were supposed to do, and Nature was still allowed to kill you.

I'm afraid this is still unclear to me. What do you mean by "supposed to do"? Socially expected to do? Think you have to do, based on clever rationalization?