Comment by mattmaroon
8 hours ago
It was a Hacker News comment, not a doctoral thesis. People like you are why this site so desperately needs a block feature.
8 hours ago
It was a Hacker News comment, not a doctoral thesis. People like you are why this site so desperately needs a block feature.
I just don't like this kind of poorly thought out misanthropy.
Things aren’t poorly thought out just because they’re a short internet comment. I could easily have delved into the background belief that’s deeply-rooted in Buddhist philosophy. Thinking humans aren’t special isn’t necessarily nihilism, it can be because you believe you’re only a tiny part of the vast universe, and that what we experience as “self” is just an illusion caused by limited processing power, and that since we are all part of the universe, not a separate thing from it, the universe itself has a level of consciousness that we don’t understand and might, for instance, want to develop an intelligent species that could develop artificial life for it for some purpose we don’t understand.
It is neither nihilist nor misanthropic, it’s just an internet comment that has no reason to get that deep and therefore you assumed it had no depth.
Feel better?