Comment by Phree_Thinker on Discussion: Socially Awkward Penguin as a tool for unraveling social enigmas · 2011-06-18T11:21:38.781Z · LW · GW

This discussion is a prime example of the failure of rationality among most lesswrong members.

According to seaworld.com "Penguins are among the most social of all birds. All species are colonial."

Do your research before posting this crap.

http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/info-books/penguin/behavior.htm

Comment by Phree_Thinker on Amateur Cryonics (one guy packed in dry ice) Festival Seeks Buyer · 2011-06-18T11:16:53.493Z · LW · GW

This is a tremendous waste of ice that could be keeping poor people's food from spoiling.

People are starving in the third world every day and maybe if they had some of this ice that wouldn't happen.

Just using ice will make crystals form and destroy their brains anyway, just like TV.

Comment by Phree_Thinker on Amateur Cryonics (one guy packed in dry ice) Festival Seeks Buyer · 2011-06-18T11:15:14.828Z · LW · GW

Reviving cryopreserved patients does not "bring them back from the dead." It just revives them from stasis. They aren't anymore dead than a mind mid-upload.

Actually reviving the dead is impossible because you wouldn't be able to bring back their soul.