gwern comments on Neuroimaging as alternative/supplement to cryonics? - Less Wrong Discussion
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The probabilistic existence of the data makes it easier for hypothetical superintelligences to resurrect me, whether or not I have access to the data. I am not going to get cryonics.
...And the probability is much higher if you have a personal copy on your computer, backed up like everything else.
What is this, 'Newsome's Wager'? "There exists a non-infinitesimal chance that your brain pattern has been preserved by various processes..."
I doubt that it's more than an order of magnitude difference. Also see my reply to Wei Dai elsewhere in this thread.