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17 Post author: ciphergoth 04 August 2011 07:39AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 04 August 2011 03:21:37PM 5 points [-]

calling it a stopsign doesn't explain why this trend doesn't apply to cryonics.

I agree, and I don't think that "stopsign!" should ever be used as a fully general counterargument; it certainly can't be used as an argument against the feasibility of cryonics. In my comment above, I was protesting against "future technology!" being used to pre-emptively end the discussion. Apologies if this was unclear.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 05 August 2011 01:08:38PM 2 points [-]

I don't think that "stopsign!" should ever be used as a fully general counterargument

It's not a counterargument in any case, at best it invokes an antiprediction. It's a reminder to not stop thinking where it actually is possible to figure more out, which has a pretty general applicability.