lsparrish comments on Pet Cryonics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lsparrish 11 November 2010 09:24:19PM 0 points [-]

One reason to cryopreserve a pet is as a backup for some information about yourself, similar to lifelogging. It could help future AI to restore your lost neural connections with higher accuracy. Pets have access to information that cameras and audio recorders wouldn't, such as smells.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 11 November 2010 09:40:48PM 3 points [-]

If you can get good data from the pet, it seems unlikely one wouldn't get good data from your brain and chemical structure. This seems to be a marginal benefit.

Comment author: lsparrish 11 November 2010 10:25:28PM -1 points [-]

Depends on the kind of data needed. Some kinds of data might act as a key for unlocking larger amounts of more scrambled data. The data from the well-preserved pet might be next to useless on its own, but highly complementary with the scrambled information in your own brain.