Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Open Thread: July 2010, Part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Blueberry 14 July 2010 04:26:44PM 8 points [-]

That is really a beautiful comment.

It's a good point, and one I never would have thought of on my own: people find it painful to think they might have a chance to survive after they've struggled to give up hope.

One way to fight this is to reframe cryonics as similar to CPR: you'll still die eventually, but this is just a way of living a little longer. But people seem to find it emotionally different, perhaps because of the time delay, or the uncertainty.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 July 2010 08:46:27PM 5 points [-]

I always figured that was a rather large sector of people's negative reaction to cryonics; I'm amazed to find someone self-aware enough to notice and work through it.