drethelin comments on Far negatives of cryonics? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: drethelin 02 June 2012 05:07:48AM 0 points [-]

The problem is the chance of being revived into a life worse than death. If a life of torture is preferable to you than dying this is a risk you don't really care about, but if you're worried about it you should take it into account.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 03 June 2012 12:18:33AM *  1 point [-]

Sure, take it into account but take into account the probability of that as well. I tend to look on the dark side of things, but have recently taken to heart that the probability of The Bad Thing is usually quite low.

Maybe some crazy people will snatch me up in the night and torture me too, but I'm not going to lose sleep over the possibility because of it's low probability.