CannibalSmith comments on Do Earths with slower economic growth have a better chance at FAI?

CannibalSmith 12 Jun 2013 21:28 UTC
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I think the nearest deadline is our own lifespans. FAI is no good if you’re dead before it comes along. Also cryonics requires fast economic growth.
- ArisKatsaris 12 Jun 2013 22:09 UTC
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  FAI is no good if you’re dead before it comes along
  
  I think FAI is very good even if I’m dead before it comes along.
- Eliezer Yudkowsky 12 Jun 2013 21:32 UTC
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  This is not how I make choices.
- James_Miller 12 Jun 2013 22:10 UTC
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  Cryonics requires a good singularity.
  - JoshuaZ 13 Jun 2013 1:31 UTC
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    Cryonics requires a good singularity.
    
    Why? This isn’t obvious to me. It seems plausible that we could develop the technology to directly repair bodies without a singularity. Cryonics being used for uploading seems likely to only occur in a singularity situation, but even then it seems sufficiently far off that it isn’t clear.
- Will_Newsome 13 Jun 2013 0:22 UTC
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  What the Hell, Hero?