David_Gerard comments on Looking for opinions of people like Nick Bostrom or Anders Sandberg on current cryo techniques - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 18 October 2013 09:51:08PM 4 points [-]

It may be considering how few similarly rich people are signed up.

Comment author: lmm 19 October 2013 08:56:08AM 7 points [-]

I'd say it's more that a rich person not signing up is expressing a strong preference against. For people who believe rich people are smarter than average this should constitute a substantial piece of evidence.

Imagine people buying a car where it costs $1,000,000 to change the colour. We conclude that anyone who pays cares strongly about the colour; anyone who doesn't pay we can only say their feelings aren't enormously strong. Conversely imagine it costs $100 to change the colour. Then for anyone who pays we can only conclude they care a bit about the colour, while anyone who doesn't pay must be quite strongly indifferent to the car's colour.