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Fricken • yesterday at 9:33 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

By "everything" I'm presuming you mean the trivial little games that humans these days are preoccupied with. You can play those games if you like, but they won't save you. Everybody dies in the end no matter how smart or motivated they are. The final score is always zero.


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JumpCrisscross • yesterday at 10:11 PM

> Everybody dies in the end no matter how smart or motivated they are. The final score is always zero

This system of morality is cute when we compare a rich man and a pauper. It falls on its face when we compare a violent heathen and someone who tried to live well. It's lazy nihilism by another name, an absolution of moral agency, albeit with compelling dressing.

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recursive • yesterday at 9:43 PM

For your way of scoring maybe. If I can see and do some cool stuff along the way and maybe even love, then my final score will be non-zero, according to my scoring system.