lurking_physicist comments on On the unpopularity of cryonics: life sucks, but at least then you die - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lurking_physicist 31 July 2011 01:33:32AM 2 points [-]

Yes, if large economy of scales changes the situation before I die, I may change my mind.

Here are some points that may help identify the source of the disagreement.

  1. For a given amount of resources, the benefits of cryonics have (among other things) to be compared to the benefits of increasing the probability to reach the technological level enabling the upload (i.e. before extinction of the specie).

  2. The utility of uploading 10^10 people is not 10 times greater than the one of uploading 10^9 people.

  3. If part of a transhuman being to which I have not been uploaded happens to turn out as I would have myself, then I am already there.