I thought this was a wonderful post. Funny, made a bunch of lw-relevant points, and was informative in a summatory way on a particular topic. The story wasn’t that great, but I guess the post as a whole worked, so maybe I’m not giving it enough credit as an important set-up piece.
It’s a shame, but none of the extended strategies appeal to me very much, including for many reasons other than how dubiously viable they sounded. Then again, I’m not yet signed up for cryonics either, so that suggests I’m not as into revival strategies so much as a whole. I did take issue with the suggestion that people signed up for cryonics don’t pursue other life extension strategies, but since the topic seems centred on revival-based strats then if we assume that particular comment is made in that context, then I think it’s still a somewhat valid point. In any case, the people trying to meet “actuarial escape velocities” and the like would balk at the initial formulation’s suggestion. There are plenty of people trying plenty of different things in the attempt to live forever, and cryonics is often but one of many of the cards in their hand.
I thought this was a wonderful post. Funny, made a bunch of lw-relevant points, and was informative in a summatory way on a particular topic. The story wasn’t that great, but I guess the post as a whole worked, so maybe I’m not giving it enough credit as an important set-up piece.
It’s a shame, but none of the extended strategies appeal to me very much, including for many reasons other than how dubiously viable they sounded. Then again, I’m not yet signed up for cryonics either, so that suggests I’m not as into revival strategies so much as a whole. I did take issue with the suggestion that people signed up for cryonics don’t pursue other life extension strategies, but since the topic seems centred on revival-based strats then if we assume that particular comment is made in that context, then I think it’s still a somewhat valid point. In any case, the people trying to meet “actuarial escape velocities” and the like would balk at the initial formulation’s suggestion. There are plenty of people trying plenty of different things in the attempt to live forever, and cryonics is often but one of many of the cards in their hand.