From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Dec 18 1996 - 21:02:37 MST
> Sometimes one must fight evil ideas by being deliberately provocative
> and extreme in the other direction. The unspeakable evil of the cult
> of self-sacrifice demands such a fight. How can one possibly love
> life without loving one's own most?
Very easily. The only reason I'm still here is to serve humanity.
And let's not forget that the religious/altruistic types you reflexively
condemn are simply stating a retrospectively obvious truth: That our
emotional nature, from self-righteousness to love to honor, has evolved
to maximize our own inclusive fitness, while an impartial ethical system
regards all sentients symmetrically.
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/singularity.html
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/algernon.html
Disclaimer: Unless otherwise specified, I'm not telling you
everything I think I know.
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