http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Shut_up_and_multiply The shut up and multiply article on the wiki (markup troubles...) taken in conjunction with the following out-of-context paragraph strongly implies to readers of the wiki that this post is about the moral imperative to reproduce:
You know what? This isn’t about your feelings. A human life, with all its joys and all its pains, adding up over the course of decades, is worth far more than your brain’s feelings of comfort or discomfort with a plan. Does computing the expected utility feel too cold-blooded for your taste? Well, that feeling isn’t even a feather in the scales, when a life is at stake. Just shut up and multiply.
...is this intentional or unintentional subtext, and if the latter, do you intend to revise the word to “calculate” as some people quoting the post have done or not bother since apparently nobody but me noticed in the first place?
“I’ve wondered in the past if perhaps the best thing LW members could do if the singularity is more than 80 (4 generations) years away was simply to breed like Amish...”
An Amish with a cryonics facility. You know, that’s unheard of!
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Shut_up_and_multiply The shut up and multiply article on the wiki (markup troubles...) taken in conjunction with the following out-of-context paragraph strongly implies to readers of the wiki that this post is about the moral imperative to reproduce:
...is this intentional or unintentional subtext, and if the latter, do you intend to revise the word to “calculate” as some people quoting the post have done or not bother since apparently nobody but me noticed in the first place?
Possibly related:
“I’d always felt it a bit cultish to win by having more (indoctrinated) babies.”
“I (unfortunately) keep misreading “Shut up and multiply” to instead say “Shut up and procreate...”
“I’ve wondered in the past if perhaps the best thing LW members could do if the singularity is more than 80 (4 generations) years away was simply to breed like Amish...”
“Shut up and calculate” apparently has an existing meaning related to quantum mechanics.
An Amish with a cryonics facility. You know, that’s unheard of!
Huh. Dangit, I had ctrl+F for children and reproduction and pregnancy in this post and foolishly assumed that was conclusive evidence.