army1987 comments on Rationalists Are Less Credulous But Better At Taking Ideas Seriously - LessWrong

43 Post author: Yvain 21 January 2014 02:18AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 22 January 2014 07:21:51AM 3 points [-]

Well, only 13% of “experienced rationalists” are signed up for cryonics, which hardly counts as “everyone else” -- unless the thing they do because everyone else is doing it is “I'll sign up for cryonics iff I think it's worth it”, which kind of dilutes the meaning.

(Anecdata: in each of my social circles before I entered university, to a very good zeroth approximation either everyone smoked or nobody did, but nowadays it's not uncommon for me to be among smokers and non-smokers at the same time. Sure, you could say that in some circles people smoke because everybody does, in some circles people don't smoke because nobody doesn't, and in some circles people smoke iff they like because everybody does that, but...)