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- From: tolman%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Kenneth Tolman)
- Subject: Convincing others of cryonics?
- Date: 15 Nov 92 20:24:36 MST
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.202437.13829@hellgate.utah.edu>
- Organization: University of Utah, CompSci Dept
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- Suppose there is someone you know who you are interested in at least
- INVESTIGATING cryonics. How can you get them interested? I would
- like to hear other ideas.
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- 1) Cryonics is basically time travel. So ask "If you had the opportunity
- to travel forwards in time, would you do it?" Do you identify with the
- Time Traveller in H.G. Wells book? If you really would build a time machine
- then you really would invest in cryonics.
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- 2) Cryonics makes good gambling sense. (I posted a long note about this
- months ago) You are basically gambling, with an investment and with
- a possible return. Therefore figure out how much (100 years or so) extra life
- is worth, and what your investment return is. For anyone who is not an
- idiot, it makes good economic sense as an investment.
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- 3) Cryonics is merely another medical procedure, and a lot less costly than
- many other medical procedures. For instance, the entire cost of cancer
- therapy, or of any major disease. These procedures most reasonable people
- undertake, with perhaps the same (or less) odds than cryonics. (How about
- the cost of AIDS... which is certainly terminal, odds are even worse here)
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- What are other approaches?
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