[extropy-chat] Still confused / make 10M pounds for free

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky sentience at pobox.com
Mon Sep 4 02:49:43 UTC 2006


John wrote:
> 
> You can argue with a religious guy until you're throat hurts and you have a 
> headache, and he'll probably just feel even more certain in his beliefs. 
> Instead, you could spend your time developing a cure to death. When it's 
> ready, and he's about to die, he'll suddenly believe you.

Refuted by the case of cryonics.

  - E

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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