Bo102010 comments on Abnormal Cryonics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Bo102010 27 May 2010 07:25:36AM *  2 points [-]

If I were defending cryonics, I would say that a small chance of immortality beats sure death hands-down.

It sounds like Pascal's Wager (small chance at success, potentially infinite payoff), but it doesn't fail for the same reasons Pascal's Wager does (Pascal's gambit for one religion would work just as well for any other one.) - discussed here a while back.