[extropy-chat] Re: Formulating a bet

[Robin Hanson]

At 12:23 AM 3/28/2005, Brett Paatsch wrote:
>Robin, I do follow what you are saying, but I can't help but notice that
>in your choices about what you respond to you are moving us further
>away from a specific bet about cryonics and more towards general
>stuff about betting.  I haven't closed down any avenues towards us 
>formulating a specific bet on cryonics, I've been willing to look
>at ways to accommodate your concerns, but the open questions I ask you 
>you've so far ignored.

For the reason's I've given, I'm not very interested in working with you to 
specify a bet on whether a revived cryonics patient is "really" the same 
person.  I am more interested in the general issues about betting.



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