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James_Miller comments on Neil deGrasse Tyson on Cryonics - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: James_Miller 09 May 2012 04:25:44PM 23 points [-]

A marvelous way to just convince people to give you money.

  1. The best way to convince people to give you money is to offer them something of exceptionally high value.

  2. It's perverse logic to imply that a service has lower value because people are willing to pay for the service.

  3. 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."

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 09 May 2012 04:58:20PM *  14 points [-]

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.