shminux comments on Open Thread: November 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 08 July 2012 10:16:45PM 7 points [-]

Every genius is entitled to some eccentricity, and the MWI is EY's.

EY's level of support for cryonics (to the point of saying that people who don't sign their children up for cryo are lousy parents) sound waaaay more eccentric to me than acceptance of the MWI.

Comment author: shminux 09 July 2012 04:40:43AM 11 points [-]

Cryonics is a last-ditch long-shot attempt to cheat death, so I can relate quite easily.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.

-- Woody Allen