Desrtopa comments on How Likely Is Cryonics To Work? - Less Wrong

18 Post author: jkaufman 25 September 2011 11:38PM

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Comment author: Desrtopa 26 September 2011 03:39:45AM *  6 points [-]

That strikes me as an astonishingly high estimate for "You are not your brain." Care to elaborate?

Agreed that the list overall is pessimistic, but I would have revised that one way lower.

Comment author: jimrandomh 26 September 2011 03:54:08AM 9 points [-]

That strikes me as an astonishingly high estimate for "You are not your brain." Care to elaborate?

I was going to say something about matrix universes and the possibility that I'm systematically deceived, but then I realized that the real answer for why I gave such a high estimate (0.05) is that I started with Jeff's estimate of 0.2 as an anchor.

(I think jfaufman was originally thinking of the possibility that the spine and peripheral nervous system are important, but you can get those frozen too.)