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Lumifer comments on Inverse cryonics: one weird trick to persuade anyone to sign up for cryonics today! - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 11 August 2016 07:14:03PM 5 points [-]

The key is that signing up for inverse cryonics should be mathematically identical to not signing up for cryonics.

Actually, no, it is not. In inverse cryonics what you place at risk is a few decades of your life. That's the most you can lose. Say, around 60 years. And what you can win is 60 * 365 = about $22K. In actual cryonics you are guaranteed to lose some $X and you can win your IMMORTAL SOUL, err... sorry, I mean some very large number of years in PARADISE, um, there seems to be some interference going on, I meant in a technologically advanced society. These two bets are not identical at all.

Comment author: The_Jaded_One 11 August 2016 07:45:34PM *  2 points [-]

I mean some very large number of years in PARADISE, um, there seems to be some interference going on, I meant in a technologically advanced society. These two bets are not identical at all.

To the extent that you think PARADISE is better than the here and now, you could reduce the cash amount for inverse cryonics to try and equalize them as bets.

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