That’s true. And she does seem to have some amount of motivated cognition. But it does seem like she has outlined correctly some pretty glaring problems with general competence and ethics of cryonics organizations.
As we all know by now, we shouldn’t use cognitive biases as a counterargument against people we disagree with. Either her criticisms are true or they aren’t; whether she is committing motivated cognition is irrelevant.
I agree that she brings up some very important points, and I would be very interested to see them discussed herein.
Well, yes, but in so far as she is an expert in her subfield and some amount of judgement about her as an expert is occurring, that she’s engaging in motivated congnition does become relevant.
The articles on her blog near the beginning (http://cryomedical.blogspot.com/2007_07_08_archive.html) are interesting and troubling. They seem more credible because she appears to be in constructive criticism mode rather than in FUD mode.
That’s true. And she does seem to have some amount of motivated cognition. But it does seem like she has outlined correctly some pretty glaring problems with general competence and ethics of cryonics organizations.
As we all know by now, we shouldn’t use cognitive biases as a counterargument against people we disagree with. Either her criticisms are true or they aren’t; whether she is committing motivated cognition is irrelevant.
I agree that she brings up some very important points, and I would be very interested to see them discussed herein.
Well, yes, but in so far as she is an expert in her subfield and some amount of judgement about her as an expert is occurring, that she’s engaging in motivated congnition does become relevant.
The articles on her blog near the beginning (http://cryomedical.blogspot.com/2007_07_08_archive.html) are interesting and troubling. They seem more credible because she appears to be in constructive criticism mode rather than in FUD mode.