gwern comments on Open Thread: July 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 10 July 2010 10:12:34AM 0 points [-]

Given that there are examples of children or spouses actively preventing (and succeeding) cryopreservation, that means there's an additional few % chance of complete failure. Given the low chance to begin with (I think another commenter says noone expects cryonics to succeed with more than 1/4 probability?), that damages the expected utility badly.

Comment author: pengvado 10 July 2010 11:09:28AM 3 points [-]

An additional failure mode with a few % chance of happening damages the expected utility by a few %. Unless you have some reason to think that this cause of failure is anticorrelated with other causes of failure?

Comment author: RogerPepitone 11 July 2010 03:49:57PM -1 points [-]

Are you still involved in Remember 11?