Comments on: Modern Male Sati

By: Nancy Lebovitz

Nancy Lebovitz — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:51:47 +0000

I’m a woman. I think cryonics is a reasonable choice. I don’t understand the people who feel a deep, reflexive repugnance to it, and I join the chorus who hopes that those who do can find a way to explain what’s driving their feelings on the subject.

I think there’s enough overlap between men’s and women’s mentalities that evo psych explanations don’t buy much of anything.

By: Renalto

Renalto — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:44:29 +0000

Robin, I think your in the wrong relationship. You should have chosen somebody who also supported cryonics. I have a lot of friends who are women who also support cryonics. They aren’t impossible to come by you know.

By: Raven Morris

Raven Morris — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:50:16 +0000

That’s a very good question, and as with all statistics… you need to know the way they were taken, in order to know what their real meanings might actually be.

By: Raven Morris

Raven Morris — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:41:49 +0000

@Quentin:

The 3 to 1 ratio means that 25% of MALES are the ones with OBJECTIONS to cryonics. That is not a small group of people, and it entirely disproves your rampantly sexist hypothesis.

Any time you give blanket statements like that about a particular gender, and you’re not talking about gender-related anatomy, you are merely stereotyping, generalising, being sexist.

The differences between males and females when it comes to cryonics is merely the same societal differences which puts few women into most high-tech fields. Find me a community of males and females that grew up the same without enduring social biases, and I’ll show you a group of people with equal opinions on cryonics versus natural death.

By: Jeffrey Soreff

Jeffrey Soreff — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:49:56 +0000

Cryonic suspension is typically bad for people’s genes

So what? I am no more my genes than I would be a clone.

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:41:35 +0000

Not even wrong.

By: mjgeddes

mjgeddes — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:35:10 +0000

Hey curious, did you know:

‘The speed of light is independent of the motion of the source, the laws of physics are the same in all reference frames, and gravity is locally equivalent to acceleration’?

That’s relativity theory in its entirely. ‘simple’ no?
Only in retrospect and only to sometime with some natural talent in grasping physics. Same with the game stuff. Ideas may sound pretty basic in retrospect, but the thoughts would never have occurred to most people without a lot of experience. To someone with strong social skills it may seem ‘obvious’. But most people don’t have strong social skills. Certainly it was all news to me.

Case in point, you have the basics of ‘game’ wrong, and obviously don’t understand it. The basic idea is captured by the three male archetypes Robin Hanson mentioned:

Dom-Dad-Cad

and ‘game’ is about mimicking the behaviours of these three personality archetypes.

By: Tim Tyler

Tim Tyler — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:24:03 +0000

One might expect people to act so as to maximise replicator success – since differential replication explains most goal-directed behaviour in biology. Cryonic suspension is typically bad for people’s genes – which normally do better if resources are given to relatives. However, their memes could (sometimes) benefit.

Genes usually build a memetic immune system – to allow symbiotic memes, while rejecting pathogenic ones. So: one theory is that cryonauts have poor quality memetic immune systems – or high exposure to pathogenic memes – with the result that memes hijack their bodies – against the best interests of their organic genes.

By: Modern male sati. Women deny men the right to cryopreservation!

Modern male sati. Women deny men the right to cryopreservation! — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:20:09 +0000

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By: Donald Weetman Cameron

Donald Weetman Cameron — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:11:01 +0000

Cryonics is narcissistic.
The opposite of sacrifice.
That in and of itself is repulsive.
It is proof that you are not giving 100 %
and
that she can never get 100 % from you.
It is also proof that even if she could give 110% you would still want more.
You want it all.
Her capacity to “give” relative to your capacity to “want” becomes farcical.