Dentin comments on I Will Pay $500 To Anyone Who Can Convince Me To Cancel My Cryonics Subscription - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dentin 12 January 2014 02:38:34PM 0 points [-]

I'm sorry to hear that. It's unfortunate for you, and really limits your options.

In my case, uploading does continue my personal existence, and uploading in my case is a critical aspect of getting enough redundancy in my self to survive black swan random events.

Regarding your last sentence, "We can be sure of this, right now", what are you talking about exactly?

Comment author: [deleted] 12 January 2014 07:42:37PM 1 point [-]

Regarding your last sentence, "We can be sure of this, right now", what are you talking about exactly?

I mean we can do thought experiments which show prettying convincingly that I should not expect to experience the other end of uploading.

Comment author: Dentin 13 January 2014 09:50:49PM 0 points [-]

What might those thought experiments be? I have yet to hear any convincing ones.

Comment author: [deleted] 14 January 2014 10:00:26AM 1 point [-]

The teleporter arguments we've already been discussing, and variants.