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Re:Ask HN: What's the Point of Life? on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:37PM (#28867393)
It was the second post, and you were distracted and should be censored for not using the search as morally mandated. (Also, the towel - practical mandate.)

Work backwards from moral and practical mandates and find the Point.

Re:Ask HN: What's the Point of Life? on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:29PM (#28867268)
Irrational. If everyone ceased to have children, the whole bet would be lost. So, it's more complicated than that.
Re:Ask HN: What's the Point of Life? on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:22PM (#28867198)
Use templates.
Re:Ask HN: What's the Point of Life? on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:18PM (#28867127)
If you accepted unproven ideas such as that one you would probably accept ideas without foundation in general, and this attitude would be very, very toxic.
Re:Ask HN: What's the Point of Life? on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:11PM (#28867026)
"To always have your towel with you" is part of the answer.
Re:Ask HN: What's the Point of Life? on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:09PM (#28866998)
"Underrated" :) [Edit: very underrated, since somebody downvoted as this comment was written. I guess the downvoter(s) interpreted said acts as routing, while the poster may have indicated "something's behind it"]

The poster knows how to do induction.

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

Maybe to decrease it.

Re:Ask HN: What's the Point of Life? on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:03PM (#28866899)
Development.

There is literature about it, by the way, and it could be good for you to explore it if you feel that way towards the matter.