Jayson_Virissimo comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (2012) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 05 June 2012 05:16:00AM *  0 points [-]

Gametes are not people, even though we know how to make people from them.

I'm not at all sure a randomly selected human gamete is less likely to become a person than a randomly selected cryonics patient (at least, with currently-existing technology).