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wedrifid comments on How best to show dying is bad - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: Zvi 08 March 2011 03:18PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 09 March 2011 02:03:39AM 1 point [-]

Is dying bad for all intelligent agents, or just for humans (presumably due to details of our evolutionary heritage)?

I don't think it is a universal

And you are absolutely right. I concur with your reasoning. :)

Comment author: knb 09 March 2011 02:50:01AM 3 points [-]

It isn't even necessarily bad for humans. Most of us have some values which we cherish more than our own lives. If nothing else, most people would die to save everyone else on the planet.

Comment author: CronoDAS 09 March 2011 10:37:19AM 6 points [-]

On the other hand, although there are things worth dying for, we'd usually prefer not to have to die for them in the first place.