timtyler comments on Stop Using LessWrong: A Practical Interpretation of the 2012 Survey Results - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 31 December 2012 12:42:43AM *  0 points [-]

Evidently 72.9% of people here are at least considering signing up. I think the chance of cryonics working [...]

Doom avoidance and death avoidance evidently go together.

Comment author: CarlShulman 31 December 2012 02:32:28AM 4 points [-]

Belief in big technological advances over the next century or so would bump up both the chance of some kind of technological catastrophe and of cryonic revival being possible. On the other hand, a higher estimate of (cryonics-disrupting) catastrophe should reduce the expected payoff of cryonics.