I suppose people here think that their own cryonic freezing is actually doing the world a huge favor.
I don’t believe you really think that. Probably your frustration is talking. But you can probably relate to the standard analogy with a religious approach: if you believe that you have a chance for a happy immortality, it’s a lot easier to justify spending some of your mortal toil on helping others to be happy. Even if there is no correlation between how much good you do in this life and how happy you will be in the next, if any.
Hmm. Is it really better to assume they’re entirely selfish? I could do that. But I know that Harry James P-E-V at least actually believes he’s going to save the world. (Maybe not specifically with cryonics.)
(But yes, my tendency for sarcasm is something I need to work on. When I’m on Less Wrong, at least.)
I don’t believe you really think that. Probably your frustration is talking. But you can probably relate to the standard analogy with a religious approach: if you believe that you have a chance for a happy immortality, it’s a lot easier to justify spending some of your mortal toil on helping others to be happy. Even if there is no correlation between how much good you do in this life and how happy you will be in the next, if any.
Hmm. Is it really better to assume they’re entirely selfish? I could do that. But I know that Harry James P-E-V at least actually believes he’s going to save the world. (Maybe not specifically with cryonics.)
(But yes, my tendency for sarcasm is something I need to work on. When I’m on Less Wrong, at least.)