Question:
What are your thoughts on cryogenic preservation and the idea of medically treating aging?
His response:
A marvelous way to just convince people to give you money. Offer to freeze them for later. I'd have more confidence if we had previously managed to pull this off with other mammals. Until then I see it as a waste of money. I'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.
Do we need to predict? http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LessWrong & http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Thread:User_talk:WaitingforGodot/Criticisms_of_LessWrong - and keep in mind this is with David Gerard watering it down.
You didn't yet gain enough prominence...
By non-LW rationalists I mean the people whom promote science, for instance.
edit: On the rationality, the issue is that IMO breaking down the improvement into two sub improvements of 'having the most unbiased selection of propositions' and 'performing most accurate Bayesian updates on them' simply doesn't result in most win for computationally bounded agents compared to the status quo of trying to generate more of most useful hypotheses (at the expense of not generating less useful ones), and propagating certainty be... (read more)