agent00yak comments on True Ending: Sacrificial Fire (7/8) - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 February 2009 10:57AM

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Comment author: agent00yak 05 February 2009 04:41:43PM 1 point [-]

And now there will be many cults trying as hard as they can to make contact with the superhappies.

I say this because I witnessed many people discussing Brave New World as an actual utopia... Humans can have incompatible values too.

Comment author: Eugene 17 December 2011 05:51:55AM 0 points [-]

A late response, but for what it's worth, it could be said that part of the point of the climax and "true" conclusion of this story was to demonstrate how rational actors, using human logic, can be given the same information and yet come up with diametrically opposing solutions.