Right, the criteria in the tag are almost maximally inclusive (“posts which specifically suggest, consider or present a cause area, cause, or intervention. This is independent of the quality of the suggestion, the community consensus about it, or the level of specificity”). This is because I want to distinguish between the gathering step and the evaluation step. I happen to agree that cryonics right now doesn’t feel that promising, but I’d still include it because some evaluation processes might judge it to be valuable after all. Incidentally, this has happened before for me, seeing an idea which struck me as really weird and then later coming to appreciate it (fish welfare)
Per Scott Alexander’s post, considering the N least promising cause candidates in my list would be like a box which has a low chance of producing a really good idea. It will fail most of the time, but produce good ideas otherwise.
Also, cryonics has been discussed in the context of EA, one just has to follow the links in the post:
Right, the criteria in the tag are almost maximally inclusive (“posts which specifically suggest, consider or present a cause area, cause, or intervention. This is independent of the quality of the suggestion, the community consensus about it, or the level of specificity”). This is because I want to distinguish between the gathering step and the evaluation step. I happen to agree that cryonics right now doesn’t feel that promising, but I’d still include it because some evaluation processes might judge it to be valuable after all. Incidentally, this has happened before for me, seeing an idea which struck me as really weird and then later coming to appreciate it (fish welfare)
Per Scott Alexander’s post, considering the N least promising cause candidates in my list would be like a box which has a low chance of producing a really good idea. It will fail most of the time, but produce good ideas otherwise.
Also, cryonics has been discussed in the context of EA, one just has to follow the links in the post:
https://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/07/cryonics-as-charity.html
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Q7PFyobNPwqBsma9g/effective-altruism-and-cryonics-contest-results