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orthonormal comments on Cryonics without freezers: resurrection possibilities in a Big World - Less Wrong Discussion

40 Post author: Yvain 04 April 2012 10:48PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 05 April 2012 02:38:27PM 13 points [-]

If anthropics makes any sense, then cryonics in a Big World is still controlling what you should mostly expect to experience. The anthropic escape valves for a version of me who experiences death and remembers not being signed up for cryonics range from Boltzmann brains to lunatics to completely random ancestor simulations, and I think I value experiencing the mainline expected cryonics outcome more highly than I do experiencing these.

And even if anthropics doesn't make sense, then as a matter of decision theory I value actually being around in a substantial fraction of the futures of the current world-state.