Yvain comments on Ritual 2012: A Moment of Darkness - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Raemon 28 December 2012 09:09AM

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Comment author: Yvain 25 December 2012 09:46:37PM *  1 point [-]

Sorry, read this wrong.

Comment author: Kawoomba 25 December 2012 09:57:30PM 0 points [-]

In general: Depends on your terminal values.

In particular: Probably not much of a decision (advanced dementia versus legal death). As you know, in terms of preserving the functional capacity of the original human's cognition, both lead to the same result, albeit at different speeds. (In addition, even for cryonic purposes, it would be vastly better to conserve a non-degenerated brain.)