If I understand you correctly, whenever an opportunity of this efficacy is available for promoting cryonics (or plastination, or life extension) that it becomes your top-quality marginal charitable dollar. Or perhaps you’re saying merely that it’s decent charity, enough to justify rolling with the emotional attachment to an individual.
Someone on IRC suggested I fund the Brain Preservation prize Robin Hanson posted about rather than sign up for cryonics now, since I’m pretty sure current practice just won’t work at all and I want to advance the state of the art.
it becomes your top-quality marginal charitable dollar
No, not charitable. (I said “for mostly selfish reasons” and ” I took the money from my ice cream budget, not my altruistic one.”) It’s a pampering budget, for things I want for myself but can skip buying now without any fuss, like saving for retirement and tasty food and museum visits and socks with no holes and trips to see friends. My top-quality charitable dollar is still for malaria nets.
If I understand you correctly, whenever an opportunity of this efficacy is available for promoting cryonics (or plastination, or life extension) that it becomes your top-quality marginal charitable dollar. Or perhaps you’re saying merely that it’s decent charity, enough to justify rolling with the emotional attachment to an individual.
Someone on IRC suggested I fund the Brain Preservation prize Robin Hanson posted about rather than sign up for cryonics now, since I’m pretty sure current practice just won’t work at all and I want to advance the state of the art.
No, not charitable. (I said “for mostly selfish reasons” and ” I took the money from my ice cream budget, not my altruistic one.”) It’s a pampering budget, for things I want for myself but can skip buying now without any fuss, like saving for retirement and tasty food and museum visits and socks with no holes and trips to see friends. My top-quality charitable dollar is still for malaria nets.
Oh. I missed that you considered cryonics promotion selfish more than charitable. My fault.