gwern comments on 2012 Less Wrong Census Survey: Call For Critiques/Questions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 05 August 2014 10:02:14PM 3 points [-]

It really is amazingly well-optimized for discrediting MIRI and its goals, especially when amplified by censorship – which is so obviously negatively useful.

It works much better than the previous go-to slur, cryonics and freezing heads, ever did. I'm not sure why - is it the censorship aspect? Or is it the apparent resemblance to Pascal's wager?

Comment author: Halfwitz 30 November 2014 05:42:34AM 1 point [-]

Or is it the apparent resemblance to Pascal's wager?

That and believing in hell is more low status than believing in heaven. Cryonics pattern matches to the a belief in a better life after death, the basilisk to hell.