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That article would be better titled "In Praise of Death", and is a string of the usual platitudes and circularities.
Why not? Because (the article says) rationalists are cold, emotionless Vulcans, and valuing reason is a mere prejudice.
Maybe there are people who do that, but the article is pure story-telling, without a single claim of fact. File this one under "fiction".
The previous links scored 0 out of 3 for rational content, so coming to this one, I thought, what am I likely to find? Clearly, the way to bet is that it's against cryonics. There's only about a blogpost's worth of story in the idea of corpsicles just being unrevivable, so the novel will have to have revival working, but either it works horribly badly, or the revived people find themselves in a bad situation.
Click through...and I am, I think, pleasantly surprised to find that it might, in the end, be favourable to the idea. Or maybe not, there are no reviews and it's difficult to tell from the blurb:
Spoiler request! How does it play out in the end?
Yep, futurological journalism. Pass.
Shit happens.
Just a PSA: advancedatheist has a fixation on dehumanizing rationalists with an especial focus on rationalists 'not being able to get laid'. Here's some of his posts on this matter:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/lzb/open_thread_apr_01_apr_05_2015/c7gr
http://lesswrong.com/lw/m4h/when_does_technological_enhancement_feel_natural/cc09
http://lesswrong.com/lw/m1p/open_thread_apr_13_apr_19_2015/cams
http://lesswrong.com/lw/dqz/a_marriage_ceremony_for_aspiring_rationalists/72wr
It's best not to 'feed the trolls', so to speak.