Re: CRYO: Terrible Publicity for Alcor

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Feb 19 2003 - 18:37:47 MST

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    Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
    > I disagree with Greg. I don't see the publicity as all that
    > damaging. It clearly shows a couple of fly-by-night operators
    > with agendas operating in a less-than-forthright manner.
    >
    > It was an ESPN publication and we all know how that is
    > clearly the best source of high quality data.
    >
    > Worst case -- we get a few less sports oriented people
    > preserving themselves cryonically. Since by the time
    > they are likely to be revivied "sports" as we know them
    > seem unlikely to be of much interest I don't exactly
    > view this as a significant loss.

    Speaking on behalf of all sentient beings everywhere in Reality that have
    evolved, preserved, or inherited a sense of compassion which encompasses
    entities of human cognitive architecture, and which currently integrate
    that compassion into their volitional process, I disagree.

    -- 
    Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
    Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
    


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