From: (Anonymous) 2013-01-01 04:42 am (UTC)
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I'm just going to mentally adjust every time you say "ninety-nine percent certain" on a difficult non-mathematical question to "approximately seventy percent certain".
I am 99.9999994% (175 million to one odds) sure that if I buy a Powerball ticket, I won't win the jackpot. Should I update that to 30%?
Things where you can get the correct answer by simple arithmetic (like calculating number of tickets vs. number of winners) is what I meant to exclude by "difficult non-mathematical questions".
After I see reliable reports of someone getting thawed out or otherwise revived after cryosuspension I'll apply math to it. Otherwise it's just another variant on Pascal's Wager.
Refusing to think about it doesn't make risks or opportunity go away.
Well, that's pretty surprising. I would have predicted increasing belief in cryonics plus increasing likelihood of signing up. Just the latter surprises me. But the stats look quite different:
R> lw <- read.csv("2012.csv") R> lw <- subset(lw, !is.na(as.numeric(lw$TimeinCommunity))) R> lw <- subset(lw, !is.na(as.numeric(lw$PCryonics))) R> cor.test(as.numeric(lw$TimeinCommunity), as.numeric(lw$PCryonics))
Pearson's product-moment correlation
data: as.numeric(lw$TimeinCommunity) and as.numeric(lw$PCryonics) t = 0.1946, df = 1065, p-value = 0.8457 alternative hypothesis: true correlation is not equal to 0 95 percent confidence interval: -0.05407 0.06595 sample estimates: cor 0.005964 R> cor.test(as.numeric(lw$TimeinCommunity), as.numeric(lw$CryonicsStatus))
Pearson's product-moment correlation
data: as.numeric(lw$TimeinCommunity) and as.numeric(lw$CryonicsStatus) t = 4.157, df = 1065, p-value = 3.485e-05 alternative hypothesis: true correlation is not equal to 0 95 percent confidence interval: 0.06685 0.18497 sample estimates: cor 0.1264
Plotting time in community against belief in cryonics shows nothing, per the lack of correlation:
http://i.imgur.com/hS8On.png
But visually, at least, there's also nothing going on with likelihood of signing up despite the small correlation:
http://i.imgur.com/iTwEf.png
So the effects we're looking at can't be very big.
From: (Anonymous) 2013-01-02 07:26 am (UTC)
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as.numeric(lw$TimeinCommunity) NO!!! As you elsewhere appear to be aware, the correct form is: as.numeric(as.character(lw$TimeinCommuni ty))
Remember: as.numeric(factor(5:10)) [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6
No-one has yet demonstrated that cryonics works. So it's the question of how much money are you willing to pay for something that has some unknown chance of working to give you some unknown amount of extra life at some unknown point in the future...
Now, I'd certainly like some extra life! But on the other hand I have uses for my money in the here-and-now. Also as a frequent on-road cyclist it's most likely I'll die of having a bus turn me to road-jam which, er,well you have to have something worth freezing for cryonics to work even in theory right?
I discovered in physics class that I have a very unusual ability to say "no idea" when asked something I have no idea about. A thing I hate a lot is other people trying to push me to "have an opinion" about something that I HAVE NO IDEA about; not even enough of an idea to attempt a reasonable estimate. Maintaining this zen state of ignorance is quite hard when asked to make practical choices about things of course.
I did some analyses of the cryonics question last year, and the main result was that people with strong ties to Less Wrong were less likely to assign a high (>50%) probability to cryonics working. http://lesswrong.com/lw/8p4/2011_survey_results/5ercThis year, if you compare people who have read "nearly all of the sequences" (n=297) with those who "never even knew they existed until this moment" (n=90), the mean probabilities are similar (18.0 vs. 15.7, not significantly different), but the distributions are very different. The sequence-readers are much less likely to assign a probability of p<.05 to cryonics (27% of sequence-readers vs. 50% of sequences-unaware), and that difference is almost entirely concentrated in those who assigned a probability of 0 (2% vs. 21%). Sequence-readers are much more likely to assign a probability of at least .05 but less than .20 (41% vs. 21%); that makes up most of the difference (and leaves about 30% of each group assigning a probability of at least .20). Graph here, broken down into 6 categories: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9BN3c2y3wxCa3o1R0IzWTYwZEEIf you look at p(cryonics) by cryonics status, the groups that give the highest probability (and are most likely to give p>.50) are the ones who are not signed up but would like to sign up. The people who already are signed up for cryonics have the narrowest distribution, with few giving p<.05 and few giving p>.50. Graph here ("signed up" group on the far right, "would like to" groups next to them towards the right, "never thought about it" group on the left): https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9BN3c2y3wxCek9VTzcxYWdKZTA
So, basically, your thoughts on cryonics are Pascal's Wager based on Cartesian mind-body duality?
From: (Anonymous) 2013-01-02 02:53 am (UTC)
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It's only Pascal's Wager if you think that any expected value calculation is Pascal's Wager; this one, as has been pointed out already, doesn't resemble the canonical Wager very closely. Descartes is not relevant or mentioned at all and I have no idea why you brought him up.
From: (Anonymous) 2013-01-02 05:36 am (UTC)
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Vaguely related annoyance: Kickstarter. Oh, the debates I've seen people get into over whether putting money into a KS project should be called "buying" or "investment" or "donation", with each of the groups being called by the others naive, cynical, and ignorant respectively. Because apparently the only sorts of transactions that exist are those where you have a 100% percent guarantee of getting stuff, and those where you might as well just put it all on roulette, and there's no middle ground.
-ari (who's not logged in because LJ is the one site on the internet that's more often hilariously slow or completely down than Bastion)
From: (Anonymous) 2013-01-02 02:35 pm (UTC)
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How did you average the probabilities? I suspect the best way to do it is to average the log-odds.
My objections to cryonics don't rely on mathematical probabilities (because I am hopeless at maths), they boil down to: (1) do I think cryonics will ever work? Possibly, at some future point but at present - no. Have they frozen and then revived any animals such as dogs to test how the processes work or are they hoping that in fifty/two hundred years' time, medical science will be able to fix the damage that freezing and thawing out causes? Besides that you have to be legally dead when frozen, and if they can revive the 'dead' in the future, why do you think they'll bother with reviving frozen dead when they will have a plentiful supply of their own population to revive?
(b) Okay, imagine that you are dropped into the past of one or two hundred years' ago by time machine. Explain to me how, with your current skills or abilities, you are going to fit into society and make a living. Then tell me how you think you're going to fit into and make a living in the society of one or two hundred years from now, when they can have uplifted weasels in entry-level jobs working to cromify the tapabules rather than educating and training some relic of the past in order to get an entry-level job cromifying the tapabules.
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