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20 Post author: Alexei 14 February 2012 07:53AM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 14 February 2012 07:19:53PM 0 points [-]

Indeed. Humans in general aren't good at trying to be utility-function-satisfying machines.

The question you're asking is "is there life before death?"