ata comments on Normal Cryonics - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: ata 20 January 2010 07:19:21AM *  2 points [-]

I agree with ciphergoth (or perhaps I'm groupthinking with him/her :P). As for the part of your post that came after the first sentence: when we develop the technology to revive cryopreserved people, we will see if it has any recurring, statistically-significant undesirable effects on people's psychology. If it does, we'll stop reviving people until we get it sorted out.

The very small risk of accidentally turning a few people into psychopaths before we notice the pattern (I say the risk is small because we don't have any particular reasons to privilege that or any other non-null hypothesis) is, I think, worth the large potential benefits to the individuals and to society.