Re:Why Cryonics Makes Sense (2016)
by whatshisface on Sunday July 14, 2019 @02:25PM
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There's definitely a correlation between believing in one fringe thing and believing in a lot of fringe things. I think there might be some kind of "willingness to accept your own conclusions" hyperparameter that we're all set with, some people accept way too many of their own conclusions and some people don't accept enough.
Max More who (I think?) is still the CEO and someone I looked up to seemed more concerned if I was into a threesome with him and another attending woman than discussing transhumanism.
Realizing I wouldn’t want to wake up in a world with the rest of the members and encountering Buddhist philosophy was the push I needed to cancel my life insurance policy, which would have paid for the whole body procedure in the event of my death.