I suppose I’m technically cryocrastinating, but I’d find helpful instructions more useful than social pressure. (I got as far as having Rudi Hoffman e-mail me forms to fill out, but then I decided I wanted to go with a cheaper insurance plan and the way he reacted when I told him that was such that I didn’t want to interact with him anymore.) It’s not a matter of signing up for an account on nowyouareacryonaut.com with six fields worth of information and then getting a necklace in the mail.
No, but buying lottery tickets doesn’t maximise expected utility. Social Pressures to follow-up on ideas you’ve critically assented to, but haven’t executed yet because of arkrasia, might be.
Easy way to make people more rational: have all posts display if the poster,
Doesn’t believe in Cryonics
Believes and is signed up
or Believes and is cry-crastinating.
to develope social pressures against the latter.
I suppose I’m technically cryocrastinating, but I’d find helpful instructions more useful than social pressure. (I got as far as having Rudi Hoffman e-mail me forms to fill out, but then I decided I wanted to go with a cheaper insurance plan and the way he reacted when I told him that was such that I didn’t want to interact with him anymore.) It’s not a matter of signing up for an account on nowyouareacryonaut.com with six fields worth of information and then getting a necklace in the mail.
Rationality is not about where you are but how you got there. Social pressure is not among its mechanisms.
Isn’t rationality about winning?
Systematized winning.
Is a lottery winner rational to have bought a ticket?
No, but buying lottery tickets doesn’t maximise expected utility. Social Pressures to follow-up on ideas you’ve critically assented to, but haven’t executed yet because of arkrasia, might be.
Obviously, the example was a joke.
Then can we add some social pressure against Belief. Capital letters are the enemy of (epistemic) rationality!