MichaelVassar comments on Christopher Hitchens and Cryonics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dclayh 08 August 2010 09:34:01PM *  8 points [-]

I've observed that the world's most awesome people are pretty strongly connected, graph-theoretically. I would bet that there are well fewer than six degrees between, say, Eliezer and Hitchens under the relation "good friends with".

Comment author: MichaelVassar 09 August 2010 07:09:38PM *  17 points [-]

Randi's speaking at the Summit. I'll talk with him.

Comment author: ciphergoth 10 August 2010 04:05:14PM 11 points [-]

Thank you.

I'm guessing that if you do that, most of the things we could do over and above that would be positively counterproductive - would you agree?

Comment author: MichaelVassar 10 August 2010 10:12:28PM 9 points [-]

Yes.

Comment author: ata 17 August 2010 04:40:22AM 3 points [-]

How did this go? I recall he made a comment in his talk that was less anti-death (with respect to his own life, at least) than we might have hoped...