jkaufman 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: jkaufman 26 September 2011 01:35:10PM *  1 point [-]

the more details of any kind you add, the less likely a favorable outcome looks

Say I went into this thinking my chance of being frozen correctly was 95%. Now, with more details on what has to go right for this to happen, I think 86% is a better estimate. Details don't have to make things less favorable. They just usually do because we are optimistic.

EDIT: that "correctly" above should have been an "incorrectly".

Comment author: khafra 26 September 2011 02:30:20PM 2 points [-]

...but then you think and research for longer, and find out in even more detail what could go wrong, and your estimate drops to 80%. If you can predict which direction your belief will move in the future, something went wrong somewhere.

Comment author: jkaufman 26 September 2011 03:49:54PM 0 points [-]

I'm sorry, I meant to write "incorrectly".