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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:05:54 -0500 (EST)
Subject: comments re Darwin

Here I'll just touch briefly on a couple of points raised by Mike Darwin's  
recent post.
 
His analysis of the reasons for slow growth are largely unsupported and  
unconvincing, and he leaves out a moderately prominent one--viz., the 

embracing  by many cryonicists of nonsense such as uploading. econlog.econlib 
has a 
piece  by one writer who was turned off cryonics by an advocate who embraced 
uploading.  I don't have all the relevant figures, but it is clear (1) that 
many in cryonics  do embrace uploading etc. and (2) that these fantasies 
are easy bubbles to  prick. 
 
Then there is the assertion, more or less, that all publicity is bad  
publicity and all media coverage should be avoided. Again, what is lacking is  
supporting data. In particular, of those who have joined, what precipitated  
their decisions? If it wasn't reading an article or a book or a web site,  
what was it, and what was behind that?
 
Robert Ettinger
 

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