pdf23ds comments on Normal Cryonics - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 January 2010 07:08PM

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 26 January 2010 05:11:02AM 3 points [-]

I think of my community as essentially consisting of the people who are willing to do this sort of analysis, so almost axiomatically no.

The simplest reason for thinking that FAI is (relatively) likely to succeed is the same reason for thinking that slavery ending or world peace are more likely than one might assume from psychology or from economics, namely that people who think about them are unusually motivated to try to bring them about.