[Recommendation] Steven Universe & cryonics

post by tadrinth · 2016-10-11T16:21:51.672Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 1 comments

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I've been watching Steven Universe with my fiancee (a children's cartoon on Cartoon Network by Rebecca Sugar), and it wasn't until I got to Season 3 that I realized there's been a cryonics metaphor running in the background since the very first episode. If you want to introduce your kids to the idea of cryonics, this series seems like a spectacularly good way to do it.

If you don't want any spoilers, just go watch it, then come back.

Otherwise, here's the metaphor I'm seeing, and why it's great:

So, all in all, you have a series where when someone is hurt or sick in a way that you can't help, you preserve their mind in a safe way until you can figure out a way to help them. Even your worst enemy deserves no less.

 

Also, Steven Universe has an entire episode devoted to mindfulness meditation.  

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comment by WhySpace_duplicate0.9261692129075527 · 2016-10-13T03:42:41.612Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Related:

There's a cheesy children's book called Death is Wrong

Also, in this thread several people recount precisely what events in their lives caused them to become rationalists. Influential books include:

It's not clear to me why many efforts to raise the sanity water line are focused on adults. It seems like it would be more effective to try to teach children to think more like programmers, engineers, and scientists. I intend to use this sort of thing whenever I owe obligatory Christmas/birthday gifts to satisfy cultural norms.