MichaelHoward comments on A survey of anti-cryonics writing - Less Wrong

75 Post author: ciphergoth 07 February 2010 11:26PM

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Comment author: MichaelHoward 08 February 2010 03:51:27PM *  6 points [-]

Maybe it's the correlation between believing in cryonics and being a smart rationalist, but for my money the most rational arguments against cryonics [Edit: or how cryonics is being practiced] don't come from people against cryonics. They come from cryonics supporters exploring the other side of the argument, or confronting what's wrong so they can try to fix it. I take that as strong evidence that those against cryonics are getting something badly wrong.

I nominate the appropriate bits of the above Alcor article as currently the best anti-cryonics article in the world.

Comment author: ciphergoth 10 February 2010 11:10:30PM 1 point [-]
Comment author: gwern 10 May 2010 02:00:43AM 2 points [-]

Did he ever write it? It's been 2 or 3 months, and I don't see anything in http://www.benbest.com/cryonics/cryonics.html

Comment author: ciphergoth 11 May 2010 12:03:13PM 2 points [-]

Not that I heard about. I don't think there's much point to be honest, he wouldn't have credibility with disbelievers.

Comment author: MichaelHoward 09 February 2010 02:18:44PM 0 points [-]

The first 4 minutes of this is another good example. The guy on the left is Mike Darwin.