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V_V comments on Finally Ending My Cryo-Crastination - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: DataPacRat 24 September 2012 06:15PM

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Comment author: V_V 25 September 2012 12:02:45PM -1 points [-]

I'm not sure. He didn't state that he already wanted to sign up for cryonics but he didn't until now due to akrasia.

Comment author: DataPacRat 25 September 2012 04:09:59PM 5 points [-]

If I'd taken the time and effort two years ago that I'd taken just now to dig into what signing up for cryonics would cost me, then I feel like I should have done it back then, even though that would mean I would now be poorer by two years of membership fees and insurance without having been actually cryo-preserved. 'Poorer' might not be the right word; I'd have shifted my expenditures to buy less transitory stuff, or find cheaper ways to get such things. 'Akrasia' might not be the right word; I'm not sure whether 'willpower' was directly involved, and don't feel any need to argue for or against it having been.

'Cryo-Crastination' does seem, to me, to be pretty much exactly the right word; signing up for cryo is something that can be put off for a month without any obvious negative consequences; and, when that next month rolls around, ditto, until the month rolls around where it's too late.