jdgalt comments on 2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jdgalt 07 November 2011 01:08:37AM *  0 points [-]

I gave a low probability, not because I don't think that reviving people is possible, or discoverable soon, but because I see some political trends today that I think are very likely to result in mobs destroying the facilities before we can be revived. (And even if that doesn't happen, sooner or later some country is going to use nanotech in military ways, which -- if the human race survives -- may well result in the entire field being either banned or classified and staying that way.)

But I'm signed up, because it's a bet I can't lose.

Comment author: dlthomas 07 November 2011 01:51:28AM 1 point [-]

[I]t's a bet I can't lose.

How does that follow? Don't you lose if you aren't revived, be it because of social collapse, mobs unplugging you, or even just because you die in an informationally irrecoverable way?