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I was rereading HP Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu lately, and the quote from the Necronomicon jumped out at me as a very good explanation of exactly why cryonics is such a good idea.
(Full disclosure: I myself have not signed up for cryonics. But I intend to sign up as soon as I can arrange to move to a place where it is available.)
The quote is simply this:
So strange that this quote hasn't already been memed to death in support of cryonics.
RationalWiki is extremely sceptical of cryonics and still it has quoted that.
Er... logical fallacy of fictional evidence, maybe? I wince every time somebody cites Terminator in a discussion of AI. It doesn't matter if the conclusion is right or wrong, I still wince because it's not a valid argument.
The original quote has nothing to do with life extension/immortality for humans. It just happens to be an argument for cryonics, and it seems to be a valid one: death as failure to preserve rather than cessation of activity, mortality as a problem rather than a fixed rule.
Yeah, I wasn't saying that it should be used because it's "so true." Just that it's easy to appropriate.
It featured prominently in last year's Solstice.
In retrospect, I don't think I have a good reason for not coming to that.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/1pq/rationality_quotes_february_2010/1js5
(Full disclosure: I myself don't intend to sign up for cryonics.)
Huh... Before posting the quote I did try searching to see if it had already been posted before, but that didn't show up. Oh well.