[Link] Simon Cowell plans to sign up for cryonics

lsparrish

A while ago, a piece of gossip appeared in a British newspaper, alleging that Cowell had declared—while dining with the British prime minister at the time, Gordon Brown—that upon his death he plans to be frozen. Cowell tells me he doesn't recall this discussion ("I had dinner with him a couple of times, but I can't remember talking about that—that's probably why I wasn't invited back a third time") but agrees that, although he has yet to make the arrangements, this is indeed his plan.

"It's an insurance policy," he reasons. "If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. If it does work, I'll be happy. If it's possible, and I think it will be, why not have a second crack? Does that sound crazy? I think it's a good idea."

From a GQ interview:

A while ago, a piece of gossip appeared in a British newspaper, alleging that Cowell had declared—while dining with the British prime minister at the time, Gordon Brown—that upon his death he plans to be frozen. Cowell tells me he doesn't recall this discussion ("I had dinner with him a couple of times, but I can't remember talking about that—that's probably why I wasn't invited back a third time") but agrees that, although he has yet to make the arrangements, this is indeed his plan.

"It's an insurance policy," he reasons. "If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. If it does work, I'll be happy. If it's possible, and I think it will be, why not have a second crack? Does that sound crazy? I think it's a good idea."

Hmm, seems like a potential example of reversed stupidity not being intelligence.

I understood this to mean that people will see Simon Cowell doing a thing, and think (by implication, wrongly) "He is stupid, therefore this is a stupid thing to do." Other people (shokwave, for one) seem to be interpreting it as a criticism of Cowell, suggesting that he is doing the right thing for the wrong reason. Clarify?

5shokwave15y

Even though this is plausible, don't criticize people when they get the right answer. There's a post about that somewhere. edit - This was all I could find, although I thought it was more developed than that one line.

-1MinibearRex15y

I think we should refrain from trying to publicize this, for that reason. People perceiving cryonics as "that weird thing Simon Cowell signed up for" are unlikely to sign up themselves.

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