Mark, that is a very relevant question, and I think that if we could get at the fundamental answers to it, we might gain tens of thousands of new cryonicists.
Posing these sorts of questions and searching for the answers to them are probably the most worthwhile things we can do to help cryonics.
In your question above, you refer to "social anxiety" in a way that implies that anyone who would wonder about the social costs of cryonics may be suffering from a mental... (read 1349 more words →)
over on cryonet, mark plus wrote:
"Some of the "social costs" of revival sound pretty lame. Do the people who bring up these objections suffer from social anxiety in general?
http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/7kj/help_social_cost_of_cryonics/
Mark Plus"
Mark, that is a very relevant question, and I think that if we could get at the fundamental answers to it, we might gain tens of thousands of new cryonicists. Posing these sorts of questions and searching for the answers to them are probably the most worthwhile things we can do to help cryonics.
In your question above, you refer to "social anxiety" in a way that implies that anyone who would wonder about the social costs of cryonics may be suffering from a mental... (read 1349 more words →)