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[โ€“] onlooker@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Pulptastic@midwest.social 1 points 3 days ago

So much this.

[โ€“] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

To discover and adhere to an objectively moral life.

[โ€“] Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Me too, but I started from the context of AGI safety: eventually we will make a superintelligent machine without any wisdom, that could be given any moral system, even making paperclips.

So here's my draft of a logical path to maximal morality, and consequent values: https://www.quora.com/If-you-were-to-come-up-with-three-new-laws-of-robotics-what-would-they-be/answers/23692757

Of course it was downvoted to oblivion on LessWrong, probably because they believe: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NnohDYHNnKDtbiMyp/fake-utility-functions

[โ€“] xylogx@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

To quote Carl Sagan, โ€œWe are a way for the cosmos to know itself.โ€

[โ€“] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 28 points 4 days ago (3 children)
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To save as many animals as I can

Not to die today

[โ€“] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 23 points 4 days ago

I'm just here to raise entropy.

[โ€“] papertowels@lemmy.one 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
[โ€“] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

To crush my enemies, see them driven before me and hear the lamentations of their women

[โ€“] BreadOven@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago
[โ€“] fool@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

To be furiously myself.

Of course there's "how do you define yourself" but I discover it every day and it changes spectrally every few weeks (it better) so my definition is wrong over and over again. And I'm right over and over again too. Am I drunk?

It's hard to define in words, since words lose meaning and are imperfect when they leave your mouth.
But I feel well-defined when I turn a gun game into a tea party. Or a tea party into a gun game.
When I stay up wake to grab an extra bite of time, or when I do jack shit to stare at cool red cirrus clouds. I'm defined when I fuck up but bite my way up the wall into a standing position.
When I write something down and look back at it later -- "wow, I was smart" or "wow, I was braindead" -- then do it again.
Decorate my room, or make my lock screen pretty, or reanimate a useless skill.

I'm only a little opinionated though. If I download a personality, that's still me. If I 180, that's still me. If I'm dead wrong and eat advice, that's still me.

I'm not gonna carpe diem into a crime spree but my time is fucking mine so fuck everything (romantically/derogatorily)

[โ€“] viralJ@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Spend your life enjoying it and helping others enjoy theirs. As the universe unfolds, we've only got this one brief moment of consciousness before we disappear, we have to make our life filled with as much happiness as we can. And help others fill theirs.

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[โ€“] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

To work for some asshole and make just enough money to get by.

[โ€“] Maeve@kbin.earth 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] Vitaly@feddit.uk 4 points 3 days ago
[โ€“] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

To make as many people as uncomfortable as I humanly can.

[โ€“] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.

[โ€“] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago (5 children)

To enjoy the world and minimize how much I prevent others from enjoying it as well.

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[โ€“] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I hope to leave whatever spaces I inhabit better than before I was there. I also want to be a cute girl with a cute tummy and thick thighs. I believe these are both aligned with one another.

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[โ€“] janus2@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

ideally producing scientific research and art but in practice I'm just trying to minimize my own suffering :/

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On a cosmic timescale, facilitate a world with minimal suffering and maximal fulfillment.

[โ€“] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago

Crush the patriarchy and bring about equity and equality. And jacking the hogโ€ฆ

[โ€“] nicomachus@programming.dev 9 points 4 days ago (4 children)

My purpose in life is to produce poop and pee. I work hard so that I can afford food and water so that I can eventually poo and pee. I have an urge to reproduce so that my children can also poop and pee.

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[โ€“] kionite231@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 days ago
[โ€“] mobsenpai@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

To end it peacefully

[โ€“] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

To "live", and by "live" I mean experience and creat Art. I don't need more nor less.

[โ€“] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

If I made it with honesty and care, it may not change the world, but it surely changes the people who will do it.

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[โ€“] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 8 points 4 days ago (9 children)

Correct the mistakes of my ancestors.

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[โ€“] LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

To annoy my wife.

[โ€“] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 8 points 4 days ago

To reduce human suffering by some degree, even if it's insignificant in the big picture.

I used to be flourishing as an artist. Now I'm just trying to not end up in a camp within the next 4+ years

[โ€“] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 4 days ago

Being as comfortable as possible

[โ€“] sketty@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 days ago

it doesnt matter

[โ€“] j4k3@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago
[โ€“] ma1w4re@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago

I'm on a life-long quest to finding the EXIT from this matrix. For this I have to become the supreme lord of Holy C

[โ€“] Gebruikersnaam@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Currently just trying to be a girl, be kind, and trying to help the people around me.

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To spend time with the people I love.

[โ€“] finderscult@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago

To see the end of humanity. Luckily I don't have much longer to wait.

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