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amcknight comments on Life is Good, More Life is Better - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: Rubix 14 October 2011 05:21AM

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Comment author: amcknight 14 October 2011 11:21:55PM *  0 points [-]

Life may not be intrinsically good but goodness seems to at least depend on it in the same way that a canvas may not be beautiful but beauty depends on it. (and BTW, Torture vs Dust Specks had nothing directly related to death)

Comment author: Rubix 15 October 2011 01:25:43AM 1 point [-]

No, it didn't. It feels related to me in that I can't scan 155,000 deaths in the same way I can't scan 3^^^3 people. (As directly demonstrated by me feeling that the numbers are in any way alike, good grief.)

Comment author: dlthomas 14 October 2011 11:29:32PM *  1 point [-]

This. Life may not be intrinsically good, but it's pretty darn instrumental.

Although I've seen a lot of beautiful things that don't involve canvas... so the metaphor has its limits.