Neil deGrasse Tyson is answering questions at reddit:
What are your thoughts on cryogenic preservation and the idea of medically treating aging?
neiltyson 737 points 5 hours ago
A marvelous way to just convince people to give you money. Offer to freeze them for later. I’d have more confidence if we >had previously managed to pull this off with other mammals. Until then I see it as a waste of money. I’d rather enjoy the >money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.
Does anyone else have a weird stroke of cognitive dissonance when a trusted source places a low probability on a subject you have placed a high probability on?
I have never heard of this person before, but if they actually think “offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.” is worth mentioning, it sounds like they’re victim of a naturalistic bias.
What if, hypothetically, no one has made much money freezing people?
What if, hypothetically, it cost $5 to freeze someone indefinitely? What’s the cost at which it becomes worth it, even in absence of it working on a whole mammal?
Neil deGrasse Tyson is answering questions at reddit:
Does anyone else have a weird stroke of cognitive dissonance when a trusted source places a low probability on a subject you have placed a high probability on?
I have never heard of this person before, but if they actually think “offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.” is worth mentioning, it sounds like they’re victim of a naturalistic bias.
In this case it just marks Tyson an undiscriminating skeptic. Eliezer has written on the general case of disagreement.
What if, hypothetically, no one has made much money freezing people?
What if, hypothetically, it cost $5 to freeze someone indefinitely? What’s the cost at which it becomes worth it, even in absence of it working on a whole mammal?