Nick_Tarleton comments on Normal Cryonics - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 January 2010 07:08PM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 19 January 2010 10:53:59PM *  2 points [-]

This might get me blasted off the face of the Internet, but by my (admittedly primitive) calculations, there is a >95% chance that I will live to see the end of the world as we know it, whether that be a positive or negative end. I do not see any reason to sign up for cryonics, as it will merely constitute a drain on my currently available resources with no tangible benefit.

Probably no tangible benefit, but expected utility? Those few percent, or tenths of a percent, where cryonics saves you are worth a lot (assuming you have values that make cryonics worth considering in the first place).

(Full disclosure: I'm not signed up, but only because I think cryonics costs would come from the same "far-mode speculative futurism" mental account as better uses of money, rather than "luxury consumption". If not for that consideration — which I'm not all that sure about in any case — the decision would be massively overdetermined.)

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 20 January 2010 01:24:23AM *  0 points [-]

(assuming you have values that make cryonics worth considering in the first place)

Do you believe in having non-human-universal values, just because of believing you do or even because of having learned to follow them? Can you elaborate?