Tom3 comments on Rationality Quotes 2 - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 January 2008 11:47PM

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Comment author: Tom3 18 January 2008 04:14:25AM 1 point [-]

"EY, in this post you glibly liken belief in God to superstition. Similarly, I liken your belief in cryonics to other superstitions."

Well, the difference is that cryonics exists even if it doesn't work (yet?). You can see how this changes the nature of the debate.

"To solve this debate let us have Peter McCluskey set up another long-dated prediction market on InTrade that no one will actually bother to trade."

Oh SNAP!