whowhowho comments on That Magical Click - Less Wrong

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Comment author: whowhowho 27 February 2013 02:33:08PM 0 points [-]

Some people identified so deeply with their current social situation, the idea of losing that situation (family, friends, standing, culture, etc.) was unthinkable.

What's the connotation of that? That they're deplorably irrational, or that ardent Cryonicists are weirdly asocial?

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 05 April 2014 03:14:09PM 2 points [-]

Waking up in a future society, where you don't know anyone, yours skills are useless, etc, is equivalent to exile, which is generally considered a punishment.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 05 April 2014 05:35:01PM 1 point [-]

Exile is only a punishment because it is worse than staying at home. When the alternative is being dead, most people will take exile, as demonstrated by refugees from war zones.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 05 April 2014 05:56:31PM 1 point [-]

Who stay with their families and compatriots.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 05 April 2014 06:15:46PM *  0 points [-]

Who stay with their families and compatriots.

If they can. And with enough signed up, the same may be true of those taking the long sleep.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 05 April 2014 06:46:31PM 0 points [-]

But there is nothing they can do to exert any control over that.