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

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Comment author: passive_fist 17 January 2014 07:17:49AM 0 points [-]

I don't know what is conditional to accurate preservation of the mind,

It seems like you're saying you don't know whether cryonics can succeed or not. Whereas in your first reply you said "therefore cryonics in the current shape or form is unlikely to succeed."

Comment author: Calvin 17 January 2014 07:32:15AM *  -1 points [-]

Yes.

I don't know if it is going to succeed or not (my precognition skills are rusty today), but I am using my current beliefs and evidence (sometimes lack of thereof) to speculate that it seems unlikely to work, in the same way cryonics proponents speculate that it is likely (well, likely enough to justify the cost) that their minds are going to survive till they are revived in the future.