I didn’t say “I did X because I wanted to do X”. I said, “I made an expedited decision about how to do X, because I wanted to do X, and X is notoriously easy to neglect for extended periods of time”. Imagine me deciding to just eat leftovers for lunch because if I mull over the thousand things I could fix I will still be thinking it over—and really really hungry—by dinnertime.
I didn’t sign up for allegiance purposes. I chose a particular service that someone who has reasonably good judgment had already picked, because I didn’t want or have much ability to discriminate between the options. Imagine me staying over at someone’s house and rooting around in the fridge aimlessly, not knowing much about what’s in any of the tupperwares, until someone who knows something about my food preferences invites me to take some of the pasta.
I have savings, and I’m paying my premiums on an annual basis, so I’ll have warning and time to seek sources of income before I’m ever in danger of delinquent insurance payments. I have plenty of friends and family who I expect would loan me a few hundred dollars if I asked them to, which means I should never need more than a span of months over which to job-hunt. At the moment I have income that covers that, but I’m not optimizing for income and hope to be able to avoid starting.
“I made an expedited decision about how to do X, because I wanted to do X, and X is notoriously easy to neglect for extended periods of time”
So, my claim is that, assuming that cryonics works as advertised, the optimal age for signing up is not before 45 − 50. Do you disagree with that claim? Or do you agree but you decided to sign up anyway in order to avoid forgetting about it?
I didn’t sign up for allegiance purposes. I chose a particular service that someone who has reasonably good judgment had already picked, because I didn’t want or have much ability to discriminate between the options.
So you know about cryonics enough to decide that it’s good for you but not enough to decide what service is best for you, hence you just copied the decision of somebody who is not an expert and may well be in a situation different than yours (thus, even if his decision was optimal for him, it might not be optimal for you). And that person just coincidentally happens to be the alpha of your community.
Whatever, this discussion seems to have derailed and I didn’t mean to pick on you, I was just interested in the reasoning behind signing up for cryonics.
I didn’t say “I did X because I wanted to do X”. I said, “I made an expedited decision about how to do X, because I wanted to do X, and X is notoriously easy to neglect for extended periods of time”. Imagine me deciding to just eat leftovers for lunch because if I mull over the thousand things I could fix I will still be thinking it over—and really really hungry—by dinnertime.
I didn’t sign up for allegiance purposes. I chose a particular service that someone who has reasonably good judgment had already picked, because I didn’t want or have much ability to discriminate between the options. Imagine me staying over at someone’s house and rooting around in the fridge aimlessly, not knowing much about what’s in any of the tupperwares, until someone who knows something about my food preferences invites me to take some of the pasta.
I have savings, and I’m paying my premiums on an annual basis, so I’ll have warning and time to seek sources of income before I’m ever in danger of delinquent insurance payments. I have plenty of friends and family who I expect would loan me a few hundred dollars if I asked them to, which means I should never need more than a span of months over which to job-hunt. At the moment I have income that covers that, but I’m not optimizing for income and hope to be able to avoid starting.
So, my claim is that, assuming that cryonics works as advertised, the optimal age for signing up is not before 45 − 50. Do you disagree with that claim? Or do you agree but you decided to sign up anyway in order to avoid forgetting about it?
So you know about cryonics enough to decide that it’s good for you but not enough to decide what service is best for you, hence you just copied the decision of somebody who is not an expert and may well be in a situation different than yours (thus, even if his decision was optimal for him, it might not be optimal for you). And that person just coincidentally happens to be the alpha of your community. Whatever, this discussion seems to have derailed and I didn’t mean to pick on you, I was just interested in the reasoning behind signing up for cryonics.
Arguing with you is really tiresome. I’m going to stop.
Unless you happen to die before the age of 45??
Did you read my first post in this thread?
Oops. I guess I should have. (ETA: now a relevant reply to that comment.)