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

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Comment author: BenAlbahari 08 February 2010 09:26:17PM 3 points [-]

make this dataset formal!

Hence TakeOnIt, a database of expert opinions. Over the last few hours I've peen entering in all the expert opinions on cryonics that people have been posting links to:

Cryonics debate: http://www.takeonit.com/question/318.aspx

FYI - Robin Hanson's opinions on TakeOnIt: http://www.takeonit.com/expert/656.aspx

Comment author: RobinHanson 08 February 2010 09:41:00PM 2 points [-]

Sorry, that's just not the same thing at all.

Comment author: BenAlbahari 08 February 2010 10:17:18PM 2 points [-]

My point is that the same infrastructure can be used to capture any debate, whether its the current cryonics debate or other various debates in the past. The good thing about having a database of expert opinions is it makes questions like the one you asked easier.

Comment author: RobinHanson 08 February 2010 10:35:55PM 1 point [-]

Infrastructure is really not anything like the limiting factor. I'd donate pencils and paper too if that would help, but it won't. Beware overrating the stone in stone soup.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 February 2010 10:14:27PM 1 point [-]

It's a start. If it became popular and scaled up, it would provide that dataset.

Comment author: Document 19 December 2010 11:02:38AM 0 points [-]

I misread the last line, and briefly imagined you had a page for "Is TakeOnIt a useful resource?".