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Do you honestly think you could never fly a fully loaded 777 if it was the most important thing to you?

This project isn't about whims, it's about dreams.



Your argument doesn't work quite as well on his other "aspiration" :-)


I didn't see any requirement there for consent or remaining uninjured and un-jailed.

Of course, the thing about actual human values is that we satisfice instead of optimizing. That's a good thing.


I would argue that the term 'sleep with' implies consent. Even without that it's a wording issue of the goal, not a case of satisficing. Flying the 777 probably is.


No, but the final assertion that not achieving a goal = life failure is still ridiculous.

Also the second isn't impossible either. Just somewhat silly and if that was someone's serious life goal, coming from a somewhat strange place I didn't want to get into. It very much seemed like a whim instead of a serious goal. That a whim is not always achievable is not really relevant.




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