gwern comments on Neuroimaging as alternative/supplement to cryonics? - Less Wrong

17 Post author: Wei_Dai 12 May 2012 11:26PM

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Comment author: gwern 13 May 2012 02:16:35AM 15 points [-]

...And the probability is much higher if you have a personal copy on your computer, backed up like everything else.

What is this, 'Newsome's Wager'? "There exists a non-infinitesimal chance that your brain pattern has been preserved by various processes..."

Comment author: Will_Newsome 13 May 2012 02:24:13AM -1 points [-]

...And the probability is much higher if you have a personal copy on your computer, backed up like everything else.

I doubt that it's more than an order of magnitude difference. Also see my reply to Wei Dai elsewhere in this thread.

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