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

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Comment author: HughRistik 31 July 2011 11:48:13PM 5 points [-]

I guess some folks could really use $500.

Comment author: gwern 01 August 2011 01:08:16AM 9 points [-]

Assuming you weren't joking, that doesn't seem likely. The PDF Tesseract linked is about surveying college students, primarily, from elite institutions like Harvard, MIT, Princeton, or CMU. They are people one would especially expect to be making the expected value calculation and going with that.

Comment author: HughRistik 01 August 2011 01:18:35AM 5 points [-]

In that case, let's say I was joking ;)