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

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Comment author: mattnewport 08 February 2010 10:10:01PM 2 points [-]

You appeared to be generalizing in this case from 'most organisms' to 'most people' which doesn't seem valid to me.

Comment author: timtyler 08 February 2010 10:36:15PM 1 point [-]

I do also think is is generally true that most people value having kids over living for a long time - though I wasn't making a logical generalisation from "most organisms" to "most people" in the absence of other observations.

Biology has reproduction as an ultimate goal, and longevity as an instrumental one - and most people's actions seem broadly consistent with that to me - though obviously there are a few methusalahites.