Vladimir_M comments on On the unpopularity of cryonics: life sucks, but at least then you die - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_M 30 July 2011 02:50:37AM 10 points [-]

I'd love to have such a place too, and based on my off-line conversations with some people here, I think there are also others who would. So maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to set up a new forum or mailing list, perhaps even one without public visibility. I have no idea how well this would work in practice -- there are certainly many failure modes imaginable -- but it might be worth trying.

Comment author: steven0461 22 August 2011 10:19:26PM 4 points [-]

Here's one thing I'm worried about. What if discussion between those of widely varying ideological background assumptions is just intrinsically unproductive because they can never take basic concepts for granted? Even the best thinkers seem to mostly have strongly, stably different ideological outlooks. You could pre-select for ideology and possibly have multiple groups, but that has its own downsides.

Comment author: Lumifer 04 September 2013 05:58:46PM 1 point [-]

You could pre-select for ideology and possibly have multiple groups

That would mean a collection of echo chambers which are worse than useless.