orthonormal comments on Return of the Survey - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 03 May 2009 05:30:03PM 1 point [-]

A few of these needed more caveats. Since I gave an answer less than 50 on "Existential RIsk", I thought it was necessary to add a "conditioned on humanity living that long" rider to the Singularity question, etc.

Of course, I should have said so last week.

Comment author: orthonormal 04 May 2009 09:42:41PM *  0 points [-]

Also, there is a distinction (for those of us who believe MWI) between the probability that an average person frozen today will be revived (as measured in Everett branches where they get revived) and the probability of being revived from that person's perspective. It seems to me that cryopreservation is the one clearest quantum suicide situation, and that the subjective probability of being revived should equal 1 if there is any Everett branch in which you are revived.