dclayh comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dclayh 15 March 2010 01:57:48AM 7 points [-]

Huh, I had completely forgotten that P&T did an anti-cryonics bit. Disappointing. On the other hand, their basic point ("Why not spend that $125,000 on hookers?") reminded me of Reedspacer's Lower Bound.

Comment author: sketerpot 15 March 2010 07:54:31AM 8 points [-]

There's still hope for Penn and Teller; their last episode is going to be a bunch of miscellaneous retractions for the times they've been wrong on their show. Which is a good sign in itself.

Comment author: gwern 13 July 2011 01:14:43AM 2 points [-]

Bullshit! has apparently finished up. Did they do any interesting retractions?

Comment author: saturn 13 July 2011 01:31:18AM 6 points [-]

From Wikipedia:

During an interview on the January 31, 2007 episode of The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, Teller claimed that the final episode of the show would be about "the bullshit of Bullshit!" and would detail all the criticisms that they themselves had of the show, however the series ended before such an episode ever aired.

Comment author: gwern 13 July 2011 01:48:11AM 2 points [-]

Oh. What a pity. I guess the network didn't think it was worth spending money on.

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Comment author: khafra 15 March 2010 02:24:13PM 2 points [-]

$80K USD for Alcor neuro, $9K for some Russian organization, and $50K for Trans Time, which has a rather shoddy website. Other organizations only seem to offer full-body cryopreservation. What institution charges 30,000?

Comment author: Morendil 15 March 2010 02:28:50PM *  4 points [-]

Cryonics Institute. (Edit: they don't offer neuro, but I'm guessing they're the source of the $30K figure.)

Comment author: dclayh 15 March 2010 02:49:19AM 3 points [-]

First, it's only 30,000 for neuro.

I was just quoting P&T's number. That show aired in 2004 so I assumed the price would be lower today (not to mention the neuro discount).

Second, your utility in hookers is sublinear.

Of course, that's why it's a lower bound :)

Comment author: gwern 02 December 2011 01:45:32AM 1 point [-]

That show aired in 2004 so I assumed the price would be lower today

Why would you think that?