komponisto comments on Have you changed your mind lately? On what? - Less Wrong

25 Post author: Emile 04 June 2012 07:54PM

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Comment author: komponisto 05 June 2012 09:26:40AM 15 points [-]

My probability that cryonics will work has gone down after reading this.

Comment author: ciphergoth 06 June 2012 03:26:44PM 8 points [-]

I expect to read a dashed-off blog comment that makes half a maybe-plausible technical argument against cryonics but is not turned into a blog post that sets the argument out in detail roughly once every three months. Every day I don't read one, my confidence goes up. Reading that comment returns my confidence down to where it was about three months ago.

Comment author: gwern 09 June 2012 07:07:49PM 1 point [-]

Excellent - now apply a hope function and be even more precise!

Comment author: CasioTheSane 10 June 2012 06:03:44AM *  0 points [-]

I think kalla724 might have something there, but I really hope he/she posts something with more details, and some specific examples. However, there is enough information in that post for someone with enough free time, a background in biochemistry, and literature access to begin researching the idea on their own...