I question whether future society would be willing to bring someone back to life even if it was clear that the person wanted to be brought back and there was sufficient information stored to allow it to happen.
There might not be a moral reason to bring someone back to life, because if future agents value content agents, they presumably would be able to create far more content agents far more easily by engineering agents from scratch for maximum contentment with minimum resource use.
There might not be an economic reason to bring someone back to life, because future agents would be able to make far more efficient workers than a 21st century humans.
There might not be selfish reasons to bring someone back to life, because though having a 21st century person in a far more advanced world might be interesting, I think superintelligences could find far more interesting things to do.
Perhaps one way to increase the probability of being brought back to life is to set up a trust fund or something of the like to do so. Some cryonics organizations have trust funds for bringing back their preserved bodies, which is similar. What do you think of this?
I question whether future society would be willing to bring someone back to life even if it was clear that the person wanted to be brought back and there was sufficient information stored to allow it to happen.
There might not be a moral reason to bring someone back to life, because if future agents value content agents, they presumably would be able to create far more content agents far more easily by engineering agents from scratch for maximum contentment with minimum resource use.
There might not be an economic reason to bring someone back to life, because future agents would be able to make far more efficient workers than a 21st century humans.
There might not be selfish reasons to bring someone back to life, because though having a 21st century person in a far more advanced world might be interesting, I think superintelligences could find far more interesting things to do.
Perhaps one way to increase the probability of being brought back to life is to set up a trust fund or something of the like to do so. Some cryonics organizations have trust funds for bringing back their preserved bodies, which is similar. What do you think of this?