James_Miller comments on Neil deGrasse Tyson on Cryonics - Less Wrong Discussion
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The best way to convince people to give you money is to offer them something of exceptionally high value.
It's perverse logic to imply that a service has lower value because people are willing to pay for the service.
Tragically, the extremely small number of people who have signed up for cryonics proves it's not a "marvelous way" to "convince people to give you money."
I think the fixed version of the statement is that the persuasiveness-to-actual-value ratio is high, so even if persuasiveness is low, that just translates to the actual value being lower still.