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

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Comment author: Pfft 10 February 2010 12:24:13AM *  4 points [-]

Very true! So a clever man will know that the cryonist was convinced against the odds, and so the fact that the cryonist was convinced is strong evidence; clearly the clever man should believe also. But! this must have been how the cryonist reasoned, which explains why he was easily convinced with a minimum of evidence. That means that it is actually very easy to be convinced about effectiveness of cryonics, so other peoples' belief is weak evidence after all. So I can clearly not believe in cryonics!

A classic blunder!

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 February 2010 12:55:39AM 16 points [-]

Yes, getting hugely tangled up in meta-level arguments instead of looking at the actual arguments and evidence and object-level way-the-world-is would indeed be a classic blunder.