Cryonics is awkward in that the only way to think it’s a good idea, is to be willing to put weight down on pure extrapolations (that technology, unless permanently curtailed, will be able to revive vitrified people). What else is like this? In practice people aren’t willing to do this, maybe? E.g. the pandemic, most people weren’t willing to put much weight on conclusions drawn from extrapolations of an exponential growth.
Nope, “awkward” means doing unusual things that are not socially approved.
Belief in afterlife in heaven is also based on suspicious chains of reasoning, but it’s okay if others do it, too.
If you had a rationalist city that would have a gigantic freezing warehouse, and the companies would offer cryonic insurance as a job benefit that at least 10% of people would take, there would be nothing awkward about it.
E.g. the pandemic, most people weren’t willing to put much weight on conclusions drawn from extrapolations of an exponential growth.
They felt awkward about wearing a face mask when their neighbors did not.
Cryonics is awkward in that the only way to think it’s a good idea, is to be willing to put weight down on pure extrapolations (that technology, unless permanently curtailed, will be able to revive vitrified people). What else is like this? In practice people aren’t willing to do this, maybe? E.g. the pandemic, most people weren’t willing to put much weight on conclusions drawn from extrapolations of an exponential growth.
Nope, “awkward” means doing unusual things that are not socially approved.
Belief in afterlife in heaven is also based on suspicious chains of reasoning, but it’s okay if others do it, too.
If you had a rationalist city that would have a gigantic freezing warehouse, and the companies would offer cryonic insurance as a job benefit that at least 10% of people would take, there would be nothing awkward about it.
They felt awkward about wearing a face mask when their neighbors did not.
As opposed to reasoning from basically identical cases. I hear things like “when someone’s been revived, then I’ll consider it”.