One easily falls to the trap of thinking that disagreements with other people happen because the others are irrational in simple, obviously flawed ways. It’s harder to avoid the fundamental attribution error and the typical mind fallacy, and admit that the others may have a non-insane reason for their disagreement.
Harder, not harder, but which is actually right? This is not about signaling one’s ability to do the harder thing.
The reasons you listed are not ones moving most people to not sign up for cryonics. Most people, as you mention at the beginning, simply don’t take the possibility seriously enough to even consider it in detail.
I agree, but there exists a non-negligible amount of people that have not obviously illegitimate reasons for not being signed up: not most of the people in the world, and maybe not most of Less Wrong, but at least a sizable portion of Less Wrongers (and most of the people I interact with on a daily basis at SIAI). It seems that somewhere along the line people started to misinterpret Eliezer (or something) and group the reasonable and unreasonable non-cryonauts together.
Harder, not harder, but which is actually right? This is not about signaling one’s ability to do the harder thing.
The reasons you listed are not ones moving most people to not sign up for cryonics. Most people, as you mention at the beginning, simply don’t take the possibility seriously enough to even consider it in detail.
I agree, but there exists a non-negligible amount of people that have not obviously illegitimate reasons for not being signed up: not most of the people in the world, and maybe not most of Less Wrong, but at least a sizable portion of Less Wrongers (and most of the people I interact with on a daily basis at SIAI). It seems that somewhere along the line people started to misinterpret Eliezer (or something) and group the reasonable and unreasonable non-cryonauts together.
Then state the scope of the claim explicitly in the post.
Bolded and italicized; thanks for the criticism, especially as this is my first post on Less Wrong.