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

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Comment author: Yvain 01 August 2011 06:37:20AM 18 points [-]

Judging by the experiment with the secretly identical question, I seem to have been wrong. Everyone says they would jump at the chance to be reincarnated, so lack of desire to live longer apparently doesn't play as significant a role in cryonics refusal as I thought.

Comment author: MixedNuts 01 August 2011 12:51:25PM 5 points [-]

Your readers are still part of a contrarian cluster. (Hell, ciphergoth commented!) But I don't dispute the result.

Comment author: [deleted] 09 June 2012 12:27:20PM 0 points [-]

One of the reasons why I'd accept the angel's offer but I haven't signed up for cryonics is that in the former case I'd expect a much larger fraction of my friends to be alive when I'm resurrected.

Comment author: ciphergoth 09 June 2012 01:19:07PM 3 points [-]

So far, have you ever gone a thousand years without making new friends?