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palladias comments on Cryonic Revival Mutual Assistance Pact? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: palladias 30 September 2012 06:03:21PM 1 point [-]

If I am a technician in the future with limited resources deciding who to put in the pilot group of resurrectees, I'm not going to pick the people who have precommitted to haranguing me about waking up their friends.

Comment author: DataPacRat 30 September 2012 07:52:21PM 2 points [-]

That seems to be a very... subjective point of view to assume a technician has; and I can think of a variety of other viewpoints such technicians might have. To pick one just example of many, "Here's a bunch of cryonics people who seem to be completely selfish; and here's a bunch who have made promises to try to help each other, showing at least some degree of social consciousness. Which group would benefit me more to revive?".

Of course, it's iffy to try to generalize from fictional examples, especially ones made up on the spot. Can you think of any way to find out which direction human psychology actually does tend to lean toward?