-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Russell Standish Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 11:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: I signed up to be cryogenically frozen
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:52:21PM -0800, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Samiya Illias > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 9:03 PM > > Hey guys, this is a solemn decision which John Clark has taken for himself. > Please be nice! > Samiya > > So... then, if someone was about to say jump off of a bridge, believing that > they would be fine because (for the sake of discussion) they believed they > could fly.. one should, in this case as well, respect their solemn decision? > Or would it be better to try to talk them down from this misguided belief of > theirs that they somehow possessed this ability to fly? > -Chris > >>It's not the same thing at all, really. He's only out of pocket 80 grand, and >>it's not such a big price to pay when funded via insurance or a savings plan >>of some sort. I agree... and want to also say when I invented this guy on a bridge about to jump, thinking they could fly I was in no manner thinking of John Clark. Looking back it was not the best example. I was more responding to Samiya's injunction to be nice, because it was his solemn decision. It was to point out the absurdity of that position when taken to an extreme. Not *all* solemn decisions are equal; on occasion people make the most incredibly stupid decisions and so so very solemnly -Chris But it does seem a slightly funny decision for a MWI believer to make - unless he really thinks QTI doesn't work for some reason. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
