Which cryonicist to thaw?
Say that, in thirty-plus years, you're still alive and I've been cryonically preserved for a while. What could I have done during my life to convince you to apply your finite resources to resurrect me, rather than someone else?
Would it make a difference if the only potentially available resurrection method was destructive mind uploading, for which a vitrified brain would happen to be an ideal test subject?
The first attempts at reviving are going to focus on testing the resurrection method. I'm not sure if you want to be in that bunch.
If you want then it's important for the people who resurrect you to check whether your personality is intact or changed.
If you would fill out a personality test every month and that test would provide stable values before your death, it would be interesting to check whether your personality stays stable.
Having a complex Anki deck that contains information about cards that should be in your mind would also be useful for that purpose.
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