I don’t know whether it would benefit you or not, but I found the Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant to be rather useful for getting over a lot of my own cached skepticism—it starts from the very simple premise that if we can EVENTUALLY do this thing, then we really ought to start NOW.
Selling him on the idea that it ought eventually be possible seems key, because right now we really only have half the technology: we can preserve people, but we can’t revive them. The big leap is the assumption that we’re doing preservation in a way that will allow for a revival in the future.
I don’t know whether it would benefit you or not, but I found the Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant to be rather useful for getting over a lot of my own cached skepticism—it starts from the very simple premise that if we can EVENTUALLY do this thing, then we really ought to start NOW.
Selling him on the idea that it ought eventually be possible seems key, because right now we really only have half the technology: we can preserve people, but we can’t revive them. The big leap is the assumption that we’re doing preservation in a way that will allow for a revival in the future.
To make a link with different text, the ( ) and [ ] should be the other way around.
Thank you! This is what I get for doing it from memory and not checking :)