[extropy-chat] Wikipedia page and cryonics

[Keith Henson]

At 05:19 PM 4/12/2007 -0400, you wrote:

> > At 01:41 AM 4/12/2007 -0400, Heartland wrote:
> >>(Keith Wrote)
> >>
> >> > There is an agenda, but it is hardly hidden.  If it isn't obvious, 
> ask and
> >> > I will state it.
> >> >
> >> > Keith
> >>
> >>Okay, let's hear it.
> >
> > It's to embarrass the procrastinators into getting their paperwork done
> > before they get run over by a truck.
> >
> > Keith
>
>How do you know they are procrastinators? Maybe they haven't signed up yet 
>because
>they don't believe this would change anything.

In a group this large, you can be sure that *some* of them are 
procrastinators.  I agree that there are people who call themselves 
"transhumanists" who will not sign up for cryonics for one reason or 
another.  I don't take them very seriously and suspect they will be less 
represented in the post human future than those who do sign up, especially 
if they are older than say 50.

Keith