Also, avoiding dying in ways that destroy brain state. I’m not sure how probable those are, or how easy they are to avoid, and if that includes dementia (and so on) it gets rather common and tricky.
This is very true. I agonised about including a, ‘Structure your life in such a way that your minimise the probability of a death which destroys your brain’ option, but decided in the end that a pedant could argue that such a change to your lifestyle might decrease your total lifetime utility and so isn’t worth it for certain probabilities of cryonics’ success.
Also, avoiding dying in ways that destroy brain state. I’m not sure how probable those are, or how easy they are to avoid, and if that includes dementia (and so on) it gets rather common and tricky.
This is very true. I agonised about including a, ‘Structure your life in such a way that your minimise the probability of a death which destroys your brain’ option, but decided in the end that a pedant could argue that such a change to your lifestyle might decrease your total lifetime utility and so isn’t worth it for certain probabilities of cryonics’ success.