Pablo_Stafforini comments on Open Thread, March 1-15, 2013 - Less Wrong
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Why should we consider possible rather than actual experiences in this context? It seems that cryonics patients who are successfully revived will retain their original reward circuitry, so I don't see why we should expect their best possible experiences to be as good as their worst possible experiences are bad, given that this is not the case for current humans.
For some of the same reasons depressed people take drugs to elevate their mood.