X-Message-Number: 13336
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:26:50 -0500
From: Paul Wakfer <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #13305 sound bites
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> Message #13305
> From: 
> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:18:02 EST
> Subject: sound bites
>
> [snip]

Robert Ettinger pushed the following "viewpoint as 'the' key to
life".

> we can say some relevant things with
> considerable confidence:
> -----
> If you don't try, you are less likely to succeed.

This is a mere tautology

> If you are pessimistic, you are less likely to try.

This is a relevant, benefical psychological observation.

> If you are buried, you are less likely to survive.

Not necessarily. They may both be zero.

> It usually helps to have more friends and fewer antagonists.


Not necessarily. Do-gooder, well meaning friends often do more harm than 
intelligent,
knowledgable, productive non-friends.

> For the optimists to be right, only one approach need work. For the
> pessimists to be right, every approach must fail.


For cryonics to succeed, every individual part of a series of highly complex 
processes must work

correctly. For cryonics to fail, only one part of one of those highly complex 
processes needs to
fail.

> In the sweep of history, the can-do surprises have overwhelmed the can't-do
> surprises.


Nonsense! This totally ignores the myriad of inventions, processes, businesses, 
discoveries,

etc. which are never amount to anything and are, thus, never heard of and 
certainly not recorded
by history. In science for example, negative results are seldom published.

Paul Wakfer

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