Bugmaster comments on Brain Preservation - Less Wrong

22 Post author: jkaufman 28 March 2012 12:56PM

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Comment author: Bugmaster 28 March 2012 11:24:56PM 4 points [-]

Have you tried recalculating your probability of cryonics success in a hypothetical world where cryonics is normal?

Wouldn't a world where cryonics is normal have a very high probability of being a world where cryonics is already successful (i.e., people are getting revived successfully all the time) ? I have trouble imagining a world where cryonics is normal and popular, and yet it has no proven track record -- unless cryonics became a religious issue, somehow...

Comment author: falenas108 29 March 2012 01:19:51AM 3 points [-]

Maybe not popular, but a world where it is tolerated to the point where a large number of people sign up for it. And if something like modern rationality becomes popular and also advertises cryonics, that becomes a possibility.