Cryonics is awkward in that the only way to think it’s a good idea, is to be willing to put weight down on pure extrapolations (that technology, unless permanently curtailed, will be able to revive vitrified people). What else is like this? In practice people aren’t willing to do this, maybe? E.g. the pandemic, most people weren’t willing to put much weight on conclusions drawn from extrapolations of an exponential growth.
Cryonics is awkward in that the only way to think it’s a good idea, is to be willing to put weight down on pure extrapolations (that technology, unless permanently curtailed, will be able to revive vitrified people). What else is like this? In practice people aren’t willing to do this, maybe? E.g. the pandemic, most people weren’t willing to put much weight on conclusions drawn from extrapolations of an exponential growth.
As opposed to reasoning from basically identical cases. I hear things like “when someone’s been revived, then I’ll consider it”.