even the non-supernatural parts are a mix of good and bad things, and sorting it out would be too much work, so it is better to start from zero instead and only adopt the provable good stuff
Yeah, rationalists are liable to say this sort of thing, but I’m not so sanguine about their ability to avoid generating quite a few more piles of skulls given enough power. That’s not to say that I think that any other way forward commonly advocated these days is particularly promising either.
Yeah, rationalists are liable to say this sort of thing, but I’m not so sanguine about their ability to avoid generating quite a few more piles of skulls given enough power. That’s not to say that I think that any other way forward commonly advocated these days is particularly promising either.