So following on from my other comment, I say to you: go ahead. Perform the experiment of whether
“believe nothing except that which has been shown by fairly direct evidence.”
or
“incorporate all available evidence to arrive at probabilistic beliefs and then calculate expected utilities”
is best. Go ahead and perform it in on yourself by not getting cryo. If you do this, and cryo works, then I will be revived and know that you and many others just got proved wrong catastrophically. If cryo fails, then I will be 80 cents a day poorer and I’ll be just as dead as you.
How is that an “experiment”? You don’t get to answer any questions because of performing specifically the described actions, as opposed to performing any other actions.
So following on from my other comment, I say to you: go ahead. Perform the experiment of whether
“believe nothing except that which has been shown by fairly direct evidence.”
or
“incorporate all available evidence to arrive at probabilistic beliefs and then calculate expected utilities”
is best. Go ahead and perform it in on yourself by not getting cryo. If you do this, and cryo works, then I will be revived and know that you and many others just got proved wrong catastrophically. If cryo fails, then I will be 80 cents a day poorer and I’ll be just as dead as you.
How is that an “experiment”? You don’t get to answer any questions because of performing specifically the described actions, as opposed to performing any other actions.