Sithlord_Bayesian comments on You Only Live Twice - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ata 02 February 2011 11:48:48PM *  4 points [-]

I think that, for almost all values of "you", you do more good by having children and bringing them up well than by expending resources to preserve and finally resurrect yourself.

If you care about having children, why not do both?

A billion frozen "average Joes" cost a billion times as much to maintain as just one

That's not nearly true.

Comment author: Sithlord_Bayesian 04 September 2013 09:54:39PM 2 points [-]

I suspect that the act of having children causes most people to care less about their own wellbeing, and more about the wellbeing of their children.

As thus, I intuitively find it a good idea for anyone reading this to sign up for cryonics before they have children (conditional on them already being interested in signing up), in case their desire to be cryopreserved dwindles after they have children of their own.

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