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by DavidWishengrad 287 days ago
Flourishing presupposes life. You can’t have joy or suffering without first being alive. That makes life the irreducible baseline. Once secured, we can and must argue about flourishing — but it can’t replace life as the first axiom, because flourishing collapses if life is gone.

You are saying you agree, then you are saying you disagree.

It's one or the other. You do have to choose and pick a side.

You will never receive a more important commination while you live.

It's important that if you agree that you affirm it and stick with that.

It's a yes or no (with legitimate evidence to refute it as the most important communication in human discourse and the most important paper ever presented).

People are watching. Affirm, share, and anchor. People can type all they want, but without presenting higher truth there is no legitimate rebuttal known.

A person either chooses to agree that Life is Most Important or they choose not to agree Life is Most Important, after being presented it.

You said you agreed, so if you agree why are you typing stuff that appears to say you don't agree?

No one said love, compassion, justice and all the rest are not valid truths and needed for the quality of life.

It's the very dismissal of this very truth that is the root cause of all needless and preventable suffering and death. That is what is now proved in this paper. Any system, person, AI, whatever, that is not aligned with it is unsafe by definition.