advancedatheist comments on [LINK] Slashdot interview with David Ettinger of the Cryonics Institute - Less Wrong

1 Post author: moreati 19 August 2013 09:00PM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 20 August 2013 05:53:10AM 9 points [-]

I am confused. What are they doing wrong and what should they be doing instead?

Comment author: advancedatheist 20 August 2013 03:23:23PM 0 points [-]

You can start here to see where the practice of cryonics should go to get out of its pseudoscience and quackery morass:

http://chronopause.com/chronopause.com/index.php/2012/05/20/cryonics-intelligence-test-responses/index.html

I still have the scientific papers Mike Darwin sent me for his "cryonics intelligence test." Email me and I can send you the ones I consider instructive: mark.plus@rocketmail.com

Comment author: nigerweiss 20 August 2013 08:16:44PM 8 points [-]

When asked a simple question about broad and controversial assertions, it is rude to link to outside resources tangentially related to the issue without providing (at minimum) a brief explanation of what those resources are intended to indicate.

Comment author: CronoDAS 20 August 2013 11:44:24PM *  3 points [-]

So, in other words, the freezing process doesn't work very well because 1) the people doing it suck at it, 2) laws get in the way, 3) the people doing it don't have any money to use to deal with the problems, and 4) even if they had money they might do the wrong things with it?