people’s subjective probability of successful restoration to life in the future, conditional on there not being a global catastrophe destroying civilization before then. This is also known as p(success).
This definition seems relevantly modified by the conditional!
You also seem to be assuming that “probability of revival” could be a monocausal explanation for cryonics interest, but I find that implausible ex ante. Monocausality approximately doesn’t exist, and “is being revived good in expectation / good with what probability” are also common concerns. (CF)
Thanks for the comment. I’m definitely not assuming that p(success) would be a monocausal explanation. I’m mostly presenting this data to give evidence against that assumption, because people frequently make statements such as “of course almost nobody wants cryonics, they don’t expect it will work”.
I also agree that “is being revived good in expectation / good with what probability” is another common concern. Personally, I think niplav has some good analysis of net-negative revival scenarios: https://niplav.site/considerations_on_cryonics.html
This definition seems relevantly modified by the conditional!
You also seem to be assuming that “probability of revival” could be a monocausal explanation for cryonics interest, but I find that implausible ex ante. Monocausality approximately doesn’t exist, and “is being revived good in expectation / good with what probability” are also common concerns. (CF)
The arguments about about net-negative futures are in this section, especially here. I find the whole being revived as an emulation & forced to work example pretty unconvincing.
Thanks for the comment. I’m definitely not assuming that p(success) would be a monocausal explanation. I’m mostly presenting this data to give evidence against that assumption, because people frequently make statements such as “of course almost nobody wants cryonics, they don’t expect it will work”.
I also agree that “is being revived good in expectation / good with what probability” is another common concern. Personally, I think niplav has some good analysis of net-negative revival scenarios: https://niplav.site/considerations_on_cryonics.html
Btw, according to the author, ‘Lena’ is largely a critique of exploitive capitalism: https://qntm.org/uploading