Michael: I said I wasn’t attacking cryonics, but I guess I overlooked being interpreted as protecting my right to insult celebrities! I’ll be more explicit.
My problem is with the words: “all of it together can’t outweigh the life consequences of that one little decision”. I’m not saying cryonics isn’t worthwhile, and I’m not saying Eliezer’s wrong to praise Paris Hilton. If you say “I don’t eat people because humans are poisonous”, and I argue your reasoning, that doesn’t mean I called you a cannibal.
Even with probability distributions and an overwhelmingly high value placed on personal survival, there are many ways at least one non-cryonically-signed reader’s decisions could beat hers. That’s not an argument against cryonics, it’s an argument against the conjunction fallacy.
Michael: I said I wasn’t attacking cryonics, but I guess I overlooked being interpreted as protecting my right to insult celebrities! I’ll be more explicit.
My problem is with the words: “all of it together can’t outweigh the life consequences of that one little decision”. I’m not saying cryonics isn’t worthwhile, and I’m not saying Eliezer’s wrong to praise Paris Hilton. If you say “I don’t eat people because humans are poisonous”, and I argue your reasoning, that doesn’t mean I called you a cannibal.
Even with probability distributions and an overwhelmingly high value placed on personal survival, there are many ways at least one non-cryonically-signed reader’s decisions could beat hers. That’s not an argument against cryonics, it’s an argument against the conjunction fallacy.