Should we nominate a victim to write a post summarizing various good points either for or against signing up for cryonics (not the feasibility of cryonics technologies!) while taking care to realize that preferences vary and various arguments have different weights dependent on subjective interpretations? I would love to nominate Steve Rayhawk because it seems right up his ally but I’m afraid he wouldn’t like to be spotlighted. I would like to nominate Steven Kaas if he was willing. (Carl Shulman also comes to mind but I suspect he’s much too busy.)
(edit) I guess I don’t fully understand how the proposed post would differ from this one (doesn’t it already cover some of the “good points against” part?), and I’ve also always come down on the “no” side more than most people here.
I think I missed some decent points against (one of which is yours) and the ‘good arguments for’ do not seem to have been collected in a coherent fashion. If they were in the same post, written by the same person, then there’s less of a chance that two arguments addressing the same point would talk past each other. I think that you wouldn’t have to suggest a conclusion, and could leave it completely open to debate. I’m willing to bet most people will trust you to unbiasedly and effectively put forth the arguments for both sides. (I mean, what with that great quote about reconstruction from corpses and all.)
Indeed, perhaps not the best place to discuss. But it is worth thinking about this as it does make a difference to the point at issue.
Should we nominate a victim to write a post summarizing various good points either for or against signing up for cryonics (not the feasibility of cryonics technologies!) while taking care to realize that preferences vary and various arguments have different weights dependent on subjective interpretations? I would love to nominate Steve Rayhawk because it seems right up his ally but I’m afraid he wouldn’t like to be spotlighted. I would like to nominate Steven Kaas if he was willing. (Carl Shulman also comes to mind but I suspect he’s much too busy.)
(edit) I guess I don’t fully understand how the proposed post would differ from this one (doesn’t it already cover some of the “good points against” part?), and I’ve also always come down on the “no” side more than most people here.
I think I missed some decent points against (one of which is yours) and the ‘good arguments for’ do not seem to have been collected in a coherent fashion. If they were in the same post, written by the same person, then there’s less of a chance that two arguments addressing the same point would talk past each other. I think that you wouldn’t have to suggest a conclusion, and could leave it completely open to debate. I’m willing to bet most people will trust you to unbiasedly and effectively put forth the arguments for both sides. (I mean, what with that great quote about reconstruction from corpses and all.)