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

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Comment author: Rain 11 April 2012 02:41:30PM *  0 points [-]

Skeptic: I am uncertain if AI could undergo explosive recursive self-improvement and take over the universe.

Advocate: The uncertainty isn't justified. It is straightforward that it will happen soon. The idea is based on years of disjunctive lines of reasoning.

How many people fit the second category to that level of certainty? I consider myself an advocate, yet I would fall under the skeptic label given those phrasings.