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

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Comment author: Voldemort 01 August 2011 08:55:59PM 2 points [-]

It seems Lucid fox has a point. LW isn't that heavily dominated by US based users, also dosen't it seem wise for LW users to try and avoid such uses when thinking of difficult problems of ethics or instrumental rationality?

Comment author: handoflixue 01 August 2011 09:18:25PM 2 points [-]

LW isn't that heavily dominated by US based users

No, but if my example is going to evoke the opposite response in 10-20% of my audience, it's probably a bad choice :)

avoid such uses when thinking of difficult problems of ethics or instrumental rationality?

Conceeded. I was interested in gauging emotional response, though, not an intellectual "shut up and multiply". The question is less one of math and more one of priorities, for me.