taw comments on Cryonics Questions - Less Wrong
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What is "non-trivial but far from certain"? If operation's chances were as low as my estimation of cryonics I wouldn't bother so "no". With high enough chance "yes".
Maybe. I don't really trust my ability to place myself in such hypothetical scenarios and I expect my answer to result more from framing effects than anything else.
Sort of.
Definitely not.
Framing effects etc. I don't think I can reason about this clearly enough.
Definitely yes.
So there's one yes. It shouldn't surprise you that I consider cryonics waste of money with negligible chance of success, but I'm a huge fan of SENS, which has realistic chance of significantly reducing worst effects of aging at least.
And back to your arguments: