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hankx7787 comments on Best shot at immortality? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: hankx7787 22 March 2012 04:38:02PM *  5 points [-]

If you are older you should definitely be focusing on strategies for biological life extension (calorie restriction, or whatever), and everyone should sign up for cryonics as an insurance policy.

Ultimately, with full molecular nanotechnology, whether the engineering of negligible senescence is biological or digital is rather beside the point ("What exactly do you mean by ‘machine’, such that humans are not machines?" - Eliezer Yudkowsky).

However, Unfriendly AI would render the whole point moot. So the most important thing is to guarantee we get Friendly AI right.

Comment author: DanArmak 23 March 2012 01:06:19AM 0 points [-]

If you have a sufficiently high probability estimate of either FAI or UFAI arriving before your natural death.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 23 March 2012 01:11:37AM *  4 points [-]

Given cryonics, the point of death isn't crucial for the significance of existential risks for personal survival.