NancyLebovitz comments on You Only Live Twice - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 18 October 2010 02:34:29PM *  9 points [-]

I have a standard answer for cryonics advocates: ask me in 10 years.

In 10 years, I'll be 32, and if all goes well I'll have my life together, I'll be able to point to a few successes, and I'll be able to say that my life isn't a waste. If I like being alive at 32, I'll probably like being alive hundreds of years from now. On the other hand, if I'm 32 and everything has gone wrong, and I'm down and out, and I wake up every morning wishing I hadn't, then I'm probably not going to want to live one more year, let alone hundreds.

In the meantime, I really don't know. I'm in limbo. Sometimes I want to be around to see what happens next, sometimes I really don't. Sometimes I'm crazy excited about planning for my future and how great it's going to be, and sometimes I feel certain that I'll never make it, and all I want is to have never been born, and anyone who thinks well of me must either be lying or must be a loser himself.

So... call me in ten years.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 18 October 2010 03:12:29PM 5 points [-]

What if your take on life remains just as variable as it is now?

Comment author: [deleted] 18 October 2010 03:21:35PM 0 points [-]

then it probably isn't worth the money.

Comment author: Perplexed 18 October 2010 10:52:31PM 0 points [-]

So, in that case, what would be an appropriate use of that money?