CronoDAS comments on Normal Cryonics - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: CronoDAS 20 January 2010 01:33:25AM 2 points [-]

The expected monetary value of life insurance to the insured is, if used as directed, always zero!

I don't understand this sentence. Are you saying that money is of no use to the dead? There's a very real sense in which this is not true: people do have preferences as to what happens to their money after they die. If they didn't, they wouldn't write wills.

Comment author: bgrah449 20 January 2010 01:41:16AM 1 point [-]

Money is of no use to the dead. But reliable guarantees about how wealth will be distributed after death is something the living value.