New blog post: An open letter to scientific critics of cryonics

[ciphergoth]

An open letter to scientific critics of cryonics

If this isn't to your tastes, don't worry, no doubt I'll be obsessing over something else soon enough :-)

Comments

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Please write this up as a standalone article or blog post somewhere. You don't have to cover every point in the paper - if my survey is representative, then finding and documenting one flaw in that paper will represent the best ever article on the subject.

[reddragdiva]

I'm trying to bring the RationalWiki article to something like that condition. I'd quite like to bring it to front-page-feature status.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

If you really want to convince cryonics advocates, you're probably better off holding back on the snark at least some - I enjoy a bit of snark with the best of them when I agree with the snarkers, but I try to avoid it when I'm trying to convince.

[reddragdiva]

I think they're well beyond convincing. It's actually pretty light on the snark for RW ;-)

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

You're right, I should rephrase. If you really want to convince those who are in the borderlands of convinceability, holding back on the snark will probably help.

And you shouldn't underestimate how wide those borders will be - remember, no-one will ever have seen a rebuttal of cryonics like this before.

[reddragdiva]

True. Letting the facts speak for themselves is always more elegant ;-)