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It would be an argument that lesswrongers are not perfect. Also "lesswrongers" includes people who merely read the website once in a while.
I am completely unsurprised by the fact that mere reading LW articles doesn't make people perfect.
I would be more bothered by finding out that "lesswrongers" are less rational than the average population, or just some large enough control group that I could easily join instead of LW. But the numbers abour cryonics do not show that.
I think that if LWers are 50,000 times more likely to do something than the general population, that proves neither rationality nor irrationality. It just shows that LWers are chosen by an extremely selective process.