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JoshuaZ comments on Can we decrease the risk of worse-than-death outcomes following brain preservation? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 22 February 2015 01:02:33AM 0 points [-]

I think you are correct to identify these excuses as "contrived"- the central reaction is purely emotional in that the idea seems weird and triggers certain disgust and fear-of-hubris reactions. The reasoning is purely a rationalization.