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Just referring to the quote:
"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried." -- Winston Churchill
Ah, I see. I just don't think that cryonics significantly improves the chances of actually extending one's life span, which would be similar to saying that democracy is not significantly better than most other political systems.
This obviously invites the conclusion that cryonics is a terrible idea in the same sense that democracy is the worst form of government.
Are you saying that cryonics is not perfect, but it is the best alternative?
This obviously invites the conclusion that cryonics is a terrible idea in the same sense that democracy is the worst form of government.
I'm not sure I understand your point. I'll read your link a few more times, just to see if I'm missing something, but I don't quite get it now.
Yes. Is it hilarious? Hell, yes.
Not especially, unfortunately. There is something to be said for appearing that you don't give a @#%! whether other people get your humor in real time but it works best if you care a whole lot about making your humor funny to your audience at the time and then just act like you don't care about the response you get. Even if people get your joke three days later you still typically end up slightly worse off for the failed transaction.
Ah. Wrong referent. It's hilarious for me, and it may, at some point, be hilarious for them. But it's mostly funny for me. That would be why I took time to mention that it was also, in fact, asinine.
I think cryonics, in its current form, is a terrible idea
What do you think of cremation in its current form?
I think cryonics is a terrible idea, not because I don't want to preserve my brain until the tech required to recreate it digitally or physically is present, but because I don't think cryonics will do the job well. Cremation does the job very, very badly, like trying to preserve data on a hard drive by melting it down with thermite.
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Oh, hello. I've posted a couple of times, in a couple of places, and those of you who have spoken with me probably know that I am one: a novice, and two: a bit of a jerk.
I'm trying to work on that last one.
I think cryonics, in its current form, is a terrible idea, I am a (future) mathematician, and am otherwise divergent from the dominant paradigm here, but I think the rest of that is for me to know, and you to find out.
Sadly, I myself do not possess the requisite sexual orientation, otherwise I'd be calling down hurricanes all over the place. And meteorites. And angry frogs ! Mwa ha ha !
Bugmaster, I call down hurricanes everyday. It never gets boring. Meteorites are a little harder, but I do those on occasion. They aren't quite as fun.
But the angry frogs?
The angry frogs?
Those don't leave a shattered wasteland behind, so you can just terrorize people over and over again with those. Just wonderful.
Note: All of the above is complete bull-honkey. I want this to be absolutely clear. 100%, fertilizer-grade, bull-honkey.
Sorry - I'm always inclined to take people on the internet literally. I used to mess with my friends using the same kind of ow-my-brain Prisoner's-dilemma somersaults, and still I couldn't recognise a joke.
That's alright. My humor, in real life, is based entirely on the fact that only I know I'm joking at the time, and the other person won't realize it until three days later, when they spontaneously start laughing for no reason they can safely explain. Is that asinine? Yes. Is it hilarious? Hell, yes. So I apologize. I'll try not to do that.
I don't know if this is a joke - I have a poor sense of humour - but you do know Omega predicts your actual behaviour, right? As in, all things taken into account, what you will actually do.
I am being somewhat ... absurd, and on purpose, at that. But I have enough arrogance lying around in my brain to believe that I can trick the super-intelligence.
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But winning arguments is what reason is for!
edit: I don't think I've ever gotten 4 replies to a comment, let alone 4 replies at once to a six-month-old comment. But since it got so much attention, I should clarify that I intentionally conflated different meanings of purposefulness for dramatic effect.
Feet are for standing, not hands, but that doesn't keep us from admiring the gymnast.