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Gram_Stone comments on Beware the Nihilistic Failure Mode - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Gram_Stone 09 July 2015 04:47:31PM 4 points [-]

Whenever people tell me that there exists nothing of value, I ask them why they're so damned motivated to tell me about it.

Comment author: [deleted] 09 July 2015 05:03:24PM *  1 point [-]

I had a friend that was fairly confused about morality, although he was a decent person. He would only bring up thoughts that were adjacent to nihilistic concepts when a conversation was already going. He never bought into them, but I think he's still kinda epistemically paralyzed.

It is fairly obvious in his case that he feels like i.e. saving the world might be/is most likely impossible, although he hasn't verbally confirmed it. Meh. He's caught between just kinda living as he wants to and a vague, lonely concept that something more is possible and worthwhile.

I'm not coherent with my knowledge of morality enough to pull him out of it for sure, and so I haven't really tried. Potentially divisive conversations, and all. : /