This is kind of a moot point anyway, since my dad would find it out-of-character for me to use those tactics, and I have a very weak skill in emotional manipulation anyway. (My sister got all of that talent, like I got all of the sanity she was supposed to get. In-joke about that is a thing.)
What I really need is a way to separate cryonics as it exists today in his mind from cryonics as he understood it in the 1990s. The problem isn’t that he’d need talking-into it. The problem is his Cached Belief that he already knows it is pointless.
This is kind of a moot point anyway, since my dad would find it out-of-character for me to use those tactics, and I have a very weak skill in emotional manipulation anyway. (My sister got all of that talent, like I got all of the sanity she was supposed to get. In-joke about that is a thing.)
What I really need is a way to separate cryonics as it exists today in his mind from cryonics as he understood it in the 1990s. The problem isn’t that he’d need talking-into it. The problem is his Cached Belief that he already knows it is pointless.