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Sarcasm (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Minds Almost Meeting

CHAPTER

Star Wars - There's Nothing to Fight Over

In Star Wars, there is nothing to fight over. The back guys have no ideas. They have nothing that's possibly of any intellectual value or organizational value. There's nothing to learn from them. So we just have to have like a genocidal intention in relation to the dark side. And then we'll make them like really big and powerful and like really mean looking so that we can be genocidal towards them. It's just a presupposition of Star Wars. You're not missing anything about the dark side if you think that there's absolutely no value in anything they think or say. That's just given. But that's just almost to say that there's nothing to fight

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