V_V comments on How to get cryocrastinators to actually sign up for cryonics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 26 August 2012 10:08:15PM *  0 points [-]

"I did X because I wanted to do X" is not a meaningful motive unless X is intrinsically pleasurable.

Unless you mean pleasurable in a broader sense than equal, that's not necessarily the case. People can have other terminal values besides pleasure. (But I agree that being signed up for cryonics is unlikely to be one.)

Sure you do, otherwise, how do you expect to pay the premiums?

I think she means that P(she will able to afford the premiums|she signs up now) is close to 1 and P(she will able to afford the premiums|she signs up in her late forties) isn't, not that the former is literally 1.

Comment author: V_V 26 August 2012 10:31:52PM 0 points [-]

Unless you mean pleasurable in a broader sense than equal, that's not necessarily the case. People can have other terminal values besides pleasure.

I meant it in a broad sense.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 August 2012 08:17:14AM 1 point [-]

Then you might want to use a different term than “pleasurable”. I'd go with Fun (capital F), but “desirable” or “valuable” would also be OK.