| ▲ | suddenlybananas 3 hours ago |
| >Building something that supersedes us may have always been our purpose. This is just religion, but without even any serious philosophical/theological grounding. |
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| ▲ | mattmaroon 3 hours ago | parent [-] |
| You could say that about any religion given only a one sentence high level summary. “A guy in the sky made us in seven days.” has no serious, philosophical grounding. |
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| ▲ | suddenlybananas 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Your comment's first half was a kind of freshman nihilism backed up by vague gesturing at science (despite the fact that science can't really answer normative claims or value judgements). You then follow it up with a totally unsupported teleological claim which completely contradicts the paragraph that came before. | | |
| ▲ | mattmaroon 22 minutes ago | parent [-] | | It was a Hacker News comment, not a doctoral thesis. People like you are why this site so desperately needs a block feature. |
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