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Good point. This website is dedicated to such an outcome right?
If the future Agent fully revives dead people purely for selfish reasons, that might be worse than no revival at all.
Reconstructed 21st-C minds might be most valuable as stock non-player-characters in RPG games. Their afterlife might consist of endlessly driving a cab in a 3-block circle, occasionally interrupted when a PC hops in and says "follow that car!", death in a fiery crash, followed by amnesia and reset.
Is anyone working on legal rights for sentient software?
One would think so. Unfortunately the majority of people here have a hard time even taking the concept of "the right thing to do" seriously.
I had this thought too: if it is likely that a reviving agent is a slaver, and given that slavery is worse than death, I think I may well prefer death to cryonics. But that's a very non-trivial 'if'. I suppose the whole point of the term 'singularity' is that we can't usefully extrapolate beyond a certain point so as to predict the behavior of such agents.