[extropy-chat] Yehuda Yudkowsky, 1985-2004

[Samantha Atkins]

Hmm.  I never really looked at life that negatively except briefly in
my late teens.   Life is what happens between birth and death.  It is
full of a lot of opportunity for enjoyment and happiness while it
lasts.  It is the only place any possibility of such or of any good
exists.   Whether it ends soon or lasts indefinitely long this is
still true.   I've never understood focusing only on death or on
suffering as being what says whether life has any meaning or not.   
Life is where any and all "meaning" dwells.  Life *is* Meaning.

-samantha



On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 12:49:24 -0600, Kevin Freels
<cmcmortgage at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> > > What would it be like to be a rational atheist in the fifteenth century,
> > > and know beyond all hope of rescue that everyone you loved would be
> > > annihilated, one after another, unless you yourself died first?  That is
> > > still the fate of humans today; the ongoing horror has not changed, for
> all
> > > that we have hope.  Death is not a distant dream, not a terrible tragedy
> > > that happens to someone else like the stories you read in newspapers.
> >
> 
> Take any century prior to this one. I often wonder if that isn't exactly
> what happened with Alexander, Genghis Khan,  or more recently, Hitler and
> Stalin. History is full of such people. They may have simply went nuts after
> thinking this through and finding that there was nothing they could do and
> that life did not matter. Fortunately we are now on the verge of the ability
> to put an end to this. Now is the time to push dorward, not give up.
> 
> 
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