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FiftyTwo comments on Cryo and Social Obligations - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: FiftyTwo 30 January 2013 12:47:16PM 0 points [-]

Beyond personal relationships, if you are resurrected all f your knowledge and skills will be obsolete. For most people their identity is strongly tied to what they know about the world and what they are good at, having to start again is dispiriting. At best you have decades of retraining, more likely you'r a glorified historical artefact.