DanielLC comments on Cryonics without freezers: resurrection possibilities in a Big World - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Yvain 04 April 2012 10:48PM

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Comment author: DanielLC 05 April 2012 12:30:59AM 0 points [-]

Why do you care if you continue to exist?

Also, if you don't care about your measure, than why is the Big Universe even necessary? You already know you have a measure of at least how long you've been alive. You can't cease to have ever existed.

Comment author: Yvain 05 April 2012 10:11:21AM 1 point [-]

The main thrust of this post is that assumptions sufficient to support cryonics are also sufficient to survive without cryonics.

The "why do you care if you continue to exist?" question is just part of the background assumption - people sign up for cryonics because they care about continuing to exist. All I'm saying is that if you believe that, you can get the same results by not signing up for cryonics, maybe.