JoshuaZ comments on Cryonics Questions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 27 August 2010 04:37:45AM 2 points [-]

Even if someone answers yes to all six questions they could still rationally not sign up for cryonics. Aside from issues like weirdness signaling, they could not see any specific one of the six issues raised as sufficient to be an objection but consider all of them together to be enough. Thus for example one might combine 1 and 2 where the relevant payoff matrix for both issues combined (being sent into a possibly unpleasant future and having to pay a lot for an operation) combine to be enough of a concern even if neither does by itself. It seems unlikely that this would actually occur for someone and one would be deservedly skeptical of that sort of claim if they just had two statements. But the combination of 6 makes it more plausible.