> I can't believe I need to say this, but cars did not evolve by natural selection.
replyYou didn't need to say that because that's not relevant. The issue was about signal to noise. The logical stance is to assume signal is signal, until you know otherwise.
> Hacker News comments never fail to depress me.
That's also a signal.
> The issue was about signal to noise. The logical stance is to assume signal is signal, until you know otherwise.
replyI know otherwise. I have a lifetime of experience—lifetimes of experience, counting the experiences of other people—to know that pain is often just noise.
Pain is ancient. It predates rationality by millions of years, perhaps billions. The dumbest animal experiences pain. It's not a finely tuned system with documented diagnositic codes.