RethinkEverything comments on Why I haven't signed up for cryonics - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Swimmer963 12 January 2014 05:16AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 12 January 2014 04:20:29PM *  2 points [-]

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 12 January 2014 08:20:59PM 1 point [-]

But the value of your life in comparison to other persons lifes doesn't change by this. You'd have to inflation-adjust the value of other persons lifes accordingly.

Only if you are not valuing other persons lifes can you get away with this, but the OP made sufficiently clear that this wasn't the case.

Comment author: Decius 12 January 2014 05:59:51PM 1 point [-]

It's reasonable to believe that the area under the curve with "QALYs of life" on the X axis and "Probability of having a life this good or better, given cryonics" is finite, even if there is no upper bound on lifespan. Given a chance of dying each year that has a lower bound, due to accident, murder, or existential hazard, I think that it is provable that the total expected lifetime is finite.

You make a good point that the expected lifetime of a successfully revived cryonicist might be more valuable than the life of someone who didn't sign up.