By default, one does not sign up at all. I wanted to sign up at all.
“I did X because I wanted to do X” is not a meaningful motive unless X is intrinsically pleasurable.
Misses the point of the statement you quote.
I blatantly substituted Eliezer’s judgment for my own and went with the one he picked.
I suppose this means that you signed up mainly for allegiance signaling purposes rather than considerations on the probability of success.
No, that doesn’t remotely follow. Alicorn could (and likely did) believe that Eliezer is better equipped to or has simply had more motivation to look into things like probability of success.
Alicorn could (and likely did) believe that Eliezer is better equipped to or has simply had more motivation to look into things like probability of success
I can’t exclude that that was her reasoning, but cryonics requires a significant lifelong financial committment, and conditional on the belief that it might actually work with non-negligible probability, the choice of the organization and type of service becomes paramount (for instance, IIUC, CI’s typical service results in even much more ischemia than Alcor’s).
Why would you make such an important decision just by copying what somebody else did, in particular when this person is not an expert?
On the other hand, if you want to signal allegiance and gain status within a community, it makes perfectly sense to emulate the alpha.
Misses the point of the statement you quote.
No, that doesn’t remotely follow. Alicorn could (and likely did) believe that Eliezer is better equipped to or has simply had more motivation to look into things like probability of success.
Please explain.
I can’t exclude that that was her reasoning, but cryonics requires a significant lifelong financial committment, and conditional on the belief that it might actually work with non-negligible probability, the choice of the organization and type of service becomes paramount (for instance, IIUC, CI’s typical service results in even much more ischemia than Alcor’s). Why would you make such an important decision just by copying what somebody else did, in particular when this person is not an expert?
On the other hand, if you want to signal allegiance and gain status within a community, it makes perfectly sense to emulate the alpha.