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Then let's promote the idea that there will be a community in the sense of "as long as there are multiple agents interacting with each other, they can be seen as part of a community". That, however, may not alleviate the fears of cut-off social connections.
The concern is that when telling someone "you will be enmeshed in a community", you may be including Enkidu and Gilgamesh, while they may be thinking Thanksgiving Dinner.
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"We will be accused of making dubious claims whatever we do, so we might as well make dubious claims." The difference is that a 0.05 chance of cryo working can and should be defended, while a "and the society you awaken into will be reminiscient of your Thanksgiving experiences" cannot.
WIth themselves as the turkey, do you mean?
The most frequent reason humans unfreeze something today is to eat it. If our descentants will resemble humans, this should be our standard expectation.
"Daddytron, I don't want to eat the ancient humans, it just doesn't feel right"
- "Don't worry about it, Alice-ML. It's what was their standard expectation, here, check that ancient electronic papyrus. In fact, the humans climbed into the freezer voluntarily, and they lived long lives before. These ones only fed themselves organic food, too!"
I was more trying to use that pair as an example that humans still behave in many recognizably similar ways as they did five thousand years ago; the more "Thanksgiving Dinner" approach you mention is, in fact, what I'm suggesting may be worth considering trying to add to current cryo culture.