> I guarantee you haven't done an in-depth study of the merits of cryogenics. Neither have I yet, but there are many smart people who do think the tradeoff is worth it.
This is literally the strategy of conspiracy theorists! "You didn't do the research, but Emmett did and he's smarter than you." The scientific consensus is that cryonics is pseudoscience. It does not matter if I have personally done a study. It is entirely rational for me to trust the Wikipedia article on cryonics + common sense. And lots of people way smarter than Shear believed in stranger things.
Emmett Shear - and yourself! - uncritically described cryonics as being a rational, techno-optimist thing to support, and proof of Shear's credentials as a reasonable, grounded thinker, not like these Tesla-smashing wackos. That strongly implies that Shear is a bad judge of what counts as reasonable, because cryonics is ridiculous quackery. Hence why he has Dunning-Kruger syndrome. He's operating in an ignorant Silicon Valley bubble where sci-fi and reality are interchangeable as long as you have a thoughtful affectation.
One thing ChatGPT has made very obvious is that the tech community is vulnerable to the tactics of psychics and conspiracy theorists.
> uncritically described cryonics as being a rational, techno-optimist thing to support
No cryonics is posited as on the "pro-tech" spectrum, not that it's trivially true, and only mentioned so that people pattern match less on "these anti-tech'ers." I fear this is fruitless as you're unable to discuss the meta here instead of the object.
Again, the point is to discuss the actual topic, not the dismissive association cop-out that many sides lazily use. Then we can see more well-reasoned discussion instead of "these decels," "those doomsday cultists," "those cryogenic quacks."
This is literally the strategy of conspiracy theorists! "You didn't do the research, but Emmett did and he's smarter than you." The scientific consensus is that cryonics is pseudoscience. It does not matter if I have personally done a study. It is entirely rational for me to trust the Wikipedia article on cryonics + common sense. And lots of people way smarter than Shear believed in stranger things.
Emmett Shear - and yourself! - uncritically described cryonics as being a rational, techno-optimist thing to support, and proof of Shear's credentials as a reasonable, grounded thinker, not like these Tesla-smashing wackos. That strongly implies that Shear is a bad judge of what counts as reasonable, because cryonics is ridiculous quackery. Hence why he has Dunning-Kruger syndrome. He's operating in an ignorant Silicon Valley bubble where sci-fi and reality are interchangeable as long as you have a thoughtful affectation.
One thing ChatGPT has made very obvious is that the tech community is vulnerable to the tactics of psychics and conspiracy theorists.