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Synaptic comments on Can we decrease the risk of worse-than-death outcomes following brain preservation? - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: Synaptic 21 February 2015 10:58PM

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Comment author: Synaptic 21 February 2015 11:22:51PM 5 points [-]

I think I did not explain my proposal clearly enough. What I'm claiming is if that you could see intermediate steps suggesting that a worst-type future is imminent, or merely crosses your probability threshold as "too likely", then you could enumerate those and request to be removed from biostasis then. Before those who are resuscitating you would have a chance to do so.

Comment author: Brian_Tomasik 21 February 2015 11:29:15PM 3 points [-]

Ah, got it. Yeah, that would help, though there would remain many cases where bad futures come too quickly (e.g., if an AGI takes a treacherous turn all of a sudden).