A few centuries from now, if involuntary suffering still exists in the world, the explanation for its persistence won't be that we've run out of computational resources to phase out its biological signature, but rather that rational agents – for reasons unknown – will have chosen to preserve it.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "A few centuries from now, if involuntary suffering still exists in the world, the explanation for its persistence won't be that we've run out of computational resources to phase out its biological signature, but rather that rational agents – for reasons unknown – will have chosen to preserve it." in the context of ""The Radical Plan to Phase out Earth's Predatory Species", io9, 30 Jul. 2014" to mean that wisdom is timeless.