I think you’re unfairly equating “signing up for cryonics” with “urging others to sign up for cryonics”. If I go see a movie, I do so because I personally want to enjoy it, not out of any concern for whether it promotes good in the wider world (maybe it does, but this isn’t my concern). I can later go on to recommend that movie to friends or to the internet in general, but that’s a separate act.
Maybe your particular reasons for signing up are at least partially for the greater good (perhaps so you can wake up and continue the work on FAI if it remains undone), but it seems likely that most people sign up because it’s something they want for themselves.
I think you’re unfairly equating “signing up for cryonics” with “urging others to sign up for cryonics”.
“Signing up for cryonics” (and talking about it) isn’t entirely separable from “urging others to sign up for cryonics,” because we are a species of monkeys. Monkey see, monkey do.
In your version of the story, what mistake am I making that causes me to go around urging other people to sign up for cryonics?
I think you’re unfairly equating “signing up for cryonics” with “urging others to sign up for cryonics”. If I go see a movie, I do so because I personally want to enjoy it, not out of any concern for whether it promotes good in the wider world (maybe it does, but this isn’t my concern). I can later go on to recommend that movie to friends or to the internet in general, but that’s a separate act.
Maybe your particular reasons for signing up are at least partially for the greater good (perhaps so you can wake up and continue the work on FAI if it remains undone), but it seems likely that most people sign up because it’s something they want for themselves.
“Signing up for cryonics” (and talking about it) isn’t entirely separable from “urging others to sign up for cryonics,” because we are a species of monkeys. Monkey see, monkey do.