ciphergoth and I talked about cryonics a fair bit a couple of nights ago. He posits that I will not sign up for cryonics until it is socially normal. I checked my internal readout and it came back “survey says you’re right” and nodded my head. I surmise this is what it will take in general.
(The above is the sort of result my general memetic defence gives. Possibly-excessive conservatism in actually buying an idea.)
So that’s your whole goal. How do you make cryonics normal without employing the dark arts?
I think some additional training in DADA would do me a lot of good here. That is, I don’t want to be using the dark arts, but I don’t want to be vulnerable to them either. And dark arts is extremely common, especially when people are looking for excuses to keep on compartmentalizing something.
A contest for bored advertising people springs to mind: “How would you sell cryonics to the public?” Then filter the results that use dark arts. This will produce better ideas than you ever dreamed.
The hard part of this plan is making it sound like fun for the copywriters. Ad magazine competition? That’s the sort of thing that gets them working on stuff for fun and kudos.
(My psychic powers predict approximately 0 LessWrong regulars in the advertising industry. I hope I’m wrong.)
(And no, I don’t think b3ta is quite what we’re after here.)
ciphergoth and I talked about cryonics a fair bit a couple of nights ago. He posits that I will not sign up for cryonics until it is socially normal. I checked my internal readout and it came back “survey says you’re right” and nodded my head. I surmise this is what it will take in general.
(The above is the sort of result my general memetic defence gives. Possibly-excessive conservatism in actually buying an idea.)
So that’s your whole goal. How do you make cryonics normal without employing the dark arts?
Hang out with cryonicists all the time!
Mike Darwin had a funny idea for that. :)
I think some additional training in DADA would do me a lot of good here. That is, I don’t want to be using the dark arts, but I don’t want to be vulnerable to them either. And dark arts is extremely common, especially when people are looking for excuses to keep on compartmentalizing something.
A contest for bored advertising people springs to mind: “How would you sell cryonics to the public?” Then filter the results that use dark arts. This will produce better ideas than you ever dreamed.
The hard part of this plan is making it sound like fun for the copywriters. Ad magazine competition? That’s the sort of thing that gets them working on stuff for fun and kudos.
(My psychic powers predict approximately 0 LessWrong regulars in the advertising industry. I hope I’m wrong.)
(And no, I don’t think b3ta is quite what we’re after here.)