From: Mark Walker (mail@markalanwalker.com)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 06:05:41 MDT
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From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
> Actually, if we're allowed to do a postmortem of the talk - not that I'm
> saying anyone could have done better on-the-fly - one thing that stuck
> in my mind was in the beginning, when you were asked "Why do you believe
> in cryonics?" and you replied "Well, I try not to 'believe in' anything"
> or something along those lines. I thought about this afterward,
> searching for a response that wouldn't trigger 'nihilism' cues; the best
> I could come up with was: "Cryonics is not a matter of faith or
> believing in something. It's a calculated risk."
>
Perhaps: "Cryonics is not a matter of faith or believing in something. It's
a calculated benefit."
Mark
Dr. Mark Walker
Research Associate (Philosophy), Trinity College, University of Toronto
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Evolution and Technology, (www.jetpress.org)
Editor-in-Chief, Transhumanity, (www.transhumanism.com)
Home page: http://www.markalanwalker.com
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