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idiocache | 8 months ago

Can't we believe that life is a terrible cosmic mistake and still be pro-human?

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kurthr|8 months ago

Create whatever joyful apocalypse your putrid hateful heart desires.

I think the key here is "mistake". I don't really like that word here, any more than I like "precious" as opposed to interesting. Many rare things are just dangerously destructive.

fellowniusmonk|8 months ago

Can the cosmos make a mistake? Can a highly energetic RNG generator make mistakes? Random perhapse, mistake is just a very anthropocentic way of phrasing it

State change is all you need to create humans and state change is impossible to deny. Maybe other basic stuff exists too but that isn't important.

We are structural semantic meaning generators, we turn energy into semantic meaning.

Nothing and meaninglessness don't actually exist.

You can assert otherwise but that assertion relies on the very structures that make you able to assert, so assert that everything is meaningless but your ability to do so undercuts your own assertion. Even if you remain silent your brain keeps making meaning.

Does meaning lead anywhere? It might, idk, seems too early to call it.

Based on our current understanding and empirical observation, there are a very small number of entities and their progeny that can try and figure it out until the heat death of the universe.

If you feel meaningless it's just evolutionary pressure to not get stuck in a local maximum.