This is very beautiful as poetry, but the cost-benefit analysis is so shallow as to feel like I learned nothing. This provides me with no new consideration to analyse whether to sign up for cryonics or not, only with crystal butterflies. It’s perhaps a powerful argument to influence one’s decision, especially for someone who previously lacked an intuitive feeling of what is at stake.
I’m not sure what you were going for, but I think you could have a lot of success sharing this with a non-rationalist audience.
This is very beautiful as poetry, but the cost-benefit analysis is so shallow as to feel like I learned nothing. This provides me with no new consideration to analyse whether to sign up for cryonics or not, only with crystal butterflies. It’s perhaps a powerful argument to influence one’s decision, especially for someone who previously lacked an intuitive feeling of what is at stake.
I’m not sure what you were going for, but I think you could have a lot of success sharing this with a non-rationalist audience.