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polymathwannabe comments on Why people want to die - Less Wrong Discussion

49 Post author: PhilGoetz 24 August 2015 08:13PM

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 24 August 2015 08:32:46PM *  2 points [-]

Transmission of ideas is not genetic. You don't need to have kids in order to propagate your ideas. What we need to worry about is to stay in the memetic pool. The genetic pool can go down the drain for all I care.

Comment author: Lumifer 24 August 2015 08:41:26PM 6 points [-]

The genetic pool can go down the drain for all I care.

Once hardware devolves back to vacuum tubes, I'd like to see how your fancy software will continue to run :-P

Comment author: PhilGoetz 24 August 2015 08:43:29PM *  2 points [-]

That's not what the post is about. In fact, I think I'll remove that last paragraph. It's distracting and not much use.