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I'm new here, but I think I've been lurking since the start of the (latest, anyway) cryonics debate.
I may have missed something, but I saw nobody claiming that signing up for cryonics was the obvious correct choice -- it was more people claiming that believing that cryonics is obviously the incorrect choice is irrational. And even that is perhaps too strong a claim -- I think the debate was more centred on the probability of cyronics working, rather than the utility of it.
If I didn't explicitly say so before: signing up for cryonics is the obvious correct choice.
At one point Eliezer was accusing literally people who don't sign their kids up for Cyronics of "child abuse".
"If you don't sign up your kids for cryonics then you are a lousy parent." - E.Y.
Yeah looks like I misremembered, but it's essentially the same thing for purposes of illustrating to the OP that some people apparently do think that cryonics is the obvious correct choice.
Literally?
Um, why would anyone vote this down? It's bad juju to put quote marks around things someone didn't actually say, especially when you disagree with the person you're mischaracterizing. Anyway, thanks for the correction, cupholder.
Oops, I knew I should have actually looked that up. The difference between "lousy parent" and "child abuse" is only a matter of degree though - Eliezer is still claiming that cryonics is obviously right, which was the point of contention.
It's a difference of degree which matters, especially since people are apt to remember insults and extreme statements.