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whpearson comments on Possible Implications of the neural retrotransposons to the future - Less Wrong Discussion

17 Post author: whpearson 16 February 2012 09:05PM

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Comment author: whpearson 17 February 2012 05:18:11PM 2 points [-]

Restoration. If you stop chemistry the dna should be intact to be read.

So it might take longer for the tech to be developed, which means it might be less worthwhile for you, if you think that humanity is unstable and may not look after you for that amount of time.