Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky

Re:Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky by Florin_Andrei on Thursday January 19, 2017 @01:37PM (#13438222)

Sure, but the universe is also a place where it rains on your head, and then the sun burns your skin off, and wolves casually stroll in and eat your children. That's what the universe does when left to its own devices, and we don't like that, and we change it.

"It is the way it is because it's natural" is a pretty naive fallacy.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky by marknutter on Friday January 20, 2017 @08:13AM (#13443528)

> and we don't like that, and we change it.

And the ones who do the work to change it reap the biggest rewards that come from those changes.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky by AndrewKemendo on Thursday January 19, 2017 @01:48PM (#13438345)

You're reading my statement as saying that this is preferable when in fact I'm staying that it's improbable to expect we could do otherwise.

Unless you want to go down the AGI/transhumanism path with me, which I doubt you do.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky by Florin_Andrei on Thursday January 19, 2017 @01:50PM (#13438376)

Is it "improbable" that we build houses and dams to try and correct traits of the universe that we deem undesirable?

Stop typing and look around you. You live in a huge improbability already.

[ Parent | on HN ]