RobinZ comments on Costs to (potentially) eternal life - Less Wrong

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Comment author: bgrah449 22 January 2010 09:54:30PM 7 points [-]

Cryonics aside, we should talk in probabilities, not certainties, and this is true of pretty much everything, including god, heliocentrism, etc. Second, cryonics may have a small chance of succeeding - say, 1% (number pulled out of thin air) - but that's still enormously better than the alternative 0% chance of being revived after dieing in any other way.

Did these two sentences' adjacency stick out to anybody else?

Comment author: RobinZ 22 January 2010 10:04:03PM 4 points [-]

Good eyes! And it drills down to the essential problem with the but-it's-a-chance argument for cryonics: is it enough of a chance relative to the alternatives to be worth the cost?