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Human suffering x human flourishing <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Lex Fridman<\/strong>(01:10:13)<\/a> And suffering. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really complicated to consider that some amount of human suffering is necessary for human flourishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk<\/strong>(01:10:22)<\/a> Is it possible to appreciate the highs without knowing the lows?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lex Fridman<\/strong>(01:10:29)<\/a> And that all is summarized there in a single statement from God. Okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk<\/strong>(01:10:34)<\/a> No highs, no lows, who knows?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There is a reason for hate <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Elon Musk<\/strong>(01:09:49)<\/a> Yeah. Actually I was towing a friend of mine saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Would you really want there to be no hate in the world? Really none?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I wonder why hate evolved. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not saying we should have\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk<\/strong>(01:10:00)<\/a> I wonder why hate evolved. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not saying we should amplify hate, of course, I think we should try to minimize it, but none at all. There might be a reason for hate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Anti sterile and ossified <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happiness is bad <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Elon Musk<\/strong>(01:07:30)<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Exactly. Is it better to live in a world where everyone is happy all the time, even if that happiness is artificial? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good question. This is what I mean. Do you wish for world peace and happiness all the time? Are you sure? Because that might be a society that is essentially sterile and ossified that never changes, that is ultimately doomed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Elon Musk<\/strong>(01:03:09)<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Yeah. I mean, it did prompt me to think about just hate in general, which is you want to be careful of one of those things where you wish for something that sounds good, but if you get it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actually a dystopian situation. So if you wish for world peace sounds good, but how\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d it enforced and at what cost eternal peace? It might actually be worse to have eternal peace because of what that would entail. The suppression of everyone, it might be the suppression of progress. It might be an ossified society that never changes. What I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m saying is that there is an argument that if you wish for no war, you should be careful what you wish for because what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s required in order for there to be no war might be worse than a little war.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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