X-risk is a fairly unimportant factor in my survivability equation. Odds of dying due to accident and/or hardware failure trump it by a substantial margin. At my age, hardware failure is my most probable death mode.
That’s why I have the Alcor paperwork in progress even as we speak, and why I’m donating a substantial fraction of my income to SENS and not CFAR.
It’s not that X-risk is unimportant. It’s that it’s not of primary importance to me, and I suspect that a lot of LW people hold the same view.
X-risk is a fairly unimportant factor in my survivability equation. Odds of dying due to accident and/or hardware failure trump it by a substantial margin. At my age, hardware failure is my most probable death mode.
That’s why I have the Alcor paperwork in progress even as we speak, and why I’m donating a substantial fraction of my income to SENS and not CFAR.
It’s not that X-risk is unimportant. It’s that it’s not of primary importance to me, and I suspect that a lot of LW people hold the same view.
When you say “hardware failure”, could you give an example of the sort of thing you have in mind?
I imagine he means cancer, heart disease, &c.