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A comment on Ask HN: What's the Point of Life?.

Re:Ask HN: What's the Point of Life? by wsinks on Thursday October 14, 2021 @12:57PM (#28866806)
To make connections in new and surprising ways that you talk about to other people.

Or

The point of life is to increase entropy.

Or

The point of life is to secure resources that allow that life to continue on in the way that that life decides to, based on that life’s structure

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Re:Ask HN: What's the Point of Life? by thaw211014 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:05PM (#28866950)
> to increase entropy

Maybe to decrease it.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the Point of Life? by godDLL on Friday October 15, 2021 @11:43PM (#28885379)
That endeavour would be pretty much futile, would it not? The momentum in the other direction is built into the world physics, the rules of the game, is it not?

Would that not lead to a frustrating life?

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Re:Ask HN: What's the Point of Life? by drbacon on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:04PM (#28866917)
Ctrl + f entropy

I like your first answer better, even if I agree with it less.

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