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		prepend on July 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: After Slate Star Codex, where are the nuan... > The ultimate goal of society should not be to seek out objective truth! It should be to minimize harm to human beings. I disagree with this statement as I think objective truth is much more useful and important than minimizing harm. I don’t think humans should be sacrificed, but I think in 1000 years objective truth in science, math, art will be more important than whether my air conditioning was always pleasantly at 74. I boil this down to “reals > feels.”

damnyou on July 3, 2020 [–]

Indeed, we have a disagreement there. I consider the rationalist truth-over-everything-else philosophy to be profoundly, deeply unjust and immoral.

prepend on July 3, 2020 | [–]

I think it’s natural to have disagreements and share OP’s search for sites like SSC where we can discuss and learn from each other.

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