Welcome to Less Wrong, Timwi. It looks like you’re relatively new here, so you might not know that the topic of cryonics has received a lot of discussion on LW, enough to appear in the tag cloud on the front page. People here tend to have relatively favorable views of it: some (including Eliezer Yudkowsky) are convinced that it’s the right choice, have signed up, and advocate that everybody sign up, and even those who aren’t convinced tend to at least see cryonics as a reasonable possibility that’s worth considering.
Before getting too caught up in debating particular aspects of cryonics, you may want to take some to familiarize yourself with some of the ideas and arguments that have already been discussed on LW to get a better sense of the case for cryonics. The LW wiki entry and this post by Eliezer are good places to start, and they also give you various links to follow to learn more.
I think it’s OK for a newcomer to post topics in the discussion forum that have already been discussed at length. You learn a lot more if you can actively engage in conversation rather than just reading what other people have written.
Welcome to Less Wrong, Timwi. It looks like you’re relatively new here, so you might not know that the topic of cryonics has received a lot of discussion on LW, enough to appear in the tag cloud on the front page. People here tend to have relatively favorable views of it: some (including Eliezer Yudkowsky) are convinced that it’s the right choice, have signed up, and advocate that everybody sign up, and even those who aren’t convinced tend to at least see cryonics as a reasonable possibility that’s worth considering.
Before getting too caught up in debating particular aspects of cryonics, you may want to take some to familiarize yourself with some of the ideas and arguments that have already been discussed on LW to get a better sense of the case for cryonics. The LW wiki entry and this post by Eliezer are good places to start, and they also give you various links to follow to learn more.
I think it’s OK for a newcomer to post topics in the discussion forum that have already been discussed at length. You learn a lot more if you can actively engage in conversation rather than just reading what other people have written.