Jay comments on The Pascal's Wager Fallacy Fallacy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jay 19 March 2009 03:01:09AM 6 points [-]

Ask yourself if you would want to revive someone frozen 100 years ago. Most Americans of the time were unabashedly racist, had little concept of electricity and none of computing, had vaguely heard of automobiles, etc. They'd be awakened into a world that they don't understand, a world that judges them by mysterious criteria. It would be worse than being foreign, because the new culture's values were formed at least partially in reaction to the perceived problems of the past.