Comment on Survey: What's the most negative*plausible cryonics-works story that you know?

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 13:31:38 GMT

You're assuming that people who find life a net negative could simply choose to commit suicide. I don't think that this is a realistic assumption for most people. For many people, actively taking your own life is something that only becomes an option once it gets really, really shitty - and not necessarily even then.

If someone falls into this class and puts high chance on their post-cryonics life being one of misery, but still not enough misery that they'd be ready to kill themselves, then cryonics may reasonably seem like negative expected value. (Especially if they assume that societies will maintain the trend of trying to prevent people from killing themselves when possible, and that a future society might be much better at this than ours, making suicide much harder to accomplish.)

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