[extropy-chat] Re: Formulating a bet

[Brett Paatsch]

Robin Hanson wrote:

> 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.

Fair enough.

As your papers already contain a lot of material on general issues I am
less interested in revisiting those same issues.

In practice it seems that that, a difference in commitment or interest
towards different issues, perhaps because of a higher interest in other
things, is enough for disagreements to persist.

Regards,
Brett Paatsch