Is showing them a fictional nicer life really actually going to help, here? I mean, I could be wrong—there was that whole religion thing—but I’d think that what people like that need would be a nicer life now and showing them a better world would tend to make them unhappier.
In one very specific case, it well might. It’s someone who will, no question about it, be dead within a year.
His main objection to cryonics seems to be that living isn’t very fun anyway, so why bother. And though I may be playing whack-a-mole with arguments, life is important enough to at least try.
I’d just like to say here, that a few months ago, reading the fun theory sequence made me much happier. It was the idea that there was at least one, probably more, good futures, with a clear way of how to get there. Before, I had just assumed that we would all die in some apocalypse, probably from climate change. So thank you.
Is showing them a fictional nicer life really actually going to help, here? I mean, I could be wrong—there was that whole religion thing—but I’d think that what people like that need would be a nicer life now and showing them a better world would tend to make them unhappier.
In one very specific case, it well might. It’s someone who will, no question about it, be dead within a year.
His main objection to cryonics seems to be that living isn’t very fun anyway, so why bother. And though I may be playing whack-a-mole with arguments, life is important enough to at least try.
I am curious as to what would happen if he tried reading HPMOR.
I’d just like to say here, that a few months ago, reading the fun theory sequence made me much happier. It was the idea that there was at least one, probably more, good futures, with a clear way of how to get there. Before, I had just assumed that we would all die in some apocalypse, probably from climate change. So thank you.