I think the earlier post doesn’t interpret what people say charitably enough—what the LW jargon would describe as failure to steelman.
Someone who dismisses cryonics by saying that death isn’t bad probably doesn’t literally mean that death isn’t bad at all. What he is likely to mean is that death is not comparatively bad to cryonics. This can happen either because death isn’t that bad or because cryonics isn’t that good—in other words, it’s just another way to express believing that it would fail, believing that it’s a scam, etc. after all.
Well, I probably don’t evangelise as much as I should with cryonics being such a low-hanging fruit and all, but I’ve still had conversations where people argued against living forever/ immortality isn’t as good as life on Earth, as a counter argument to cryogenics—this being after I’ve explained that yes, it exists and has a decent chance of working, in at least the most recent and fresh in my memory case (today, halfway through writing this comment.)
Does that answer your question? I’m not sure if I parsed your comment correctly.
I think the earlier post doesn’t interpret what people say charitably enough—what the LW jargon would describe as failure to steelman.
Someone who dismisses cryonics by saying that death isn’t bad probably doesn’t literally mean that death isn’t bad at all. What he is likely to mean is that death is not comparatively bad to cryonics. This can happen either because death isn’t that bad or because cryonics isn’t that good—in other words, it’s just another way to express believing that it would fail, believing that it’s a scam, etc. after all.
Well, I probably don’t evangelise as much as I should with cryonics being such a low-hanging fruit and all, but I’ve still had conversations where people argued against living forever/ immortality isn’t as good as life on Earth, as a counter argument to cryogenics—this being after I’ve explained that yes, it exists and has a decent chance of working, in at least the most recent and fresh in my memory case (today, halfway through writing this comment.)
Does that answer your question? I’m not sure if I parsed your comment correctly.