Let me build on this. You say (and I agree) that fixing the damage caused by vitrification is much harder than fixing most causes of death. Thus, by the time that devitrification is possible, very few new people will be vitrified (only people who want a one-way trip to the future).
This leads me to 2 conclusions:
1) Most revivals will be of people who were frozen prior to the invention of the revivification technology. Therefore, if anyone is revived, it is because people want to revive people from the past.
2) The supply of people frozen with a given technology (who are willing to be revived, as opposed to the “one-way trip” bodies) will pretty much only decrease.
Assuming people continue to want revive people from the past, they will quickly run out of the easy revivals. If they still want to revive more people, they will have strong incentives to develop new revivification technologies.
That’s a reasonable scenario. As time goes on, though, you run into a lot more what-ifs. At some point, the technology will be advanced enough that they can extract whatever information they want from your brain without reviving you.
I think it would be really interesting to talk to Hitler. But I wouldn’t do this by reviving Hitler and setting him loose. I’d keep him contained, and turn him off afterwards. Is the difference between yourself and Hitler large compared to the difference between yourself and a future post-Singularity AI possessing advanced nanotechnology?
Let me build on this. You say (and I agree) that fixing the damage caused by vitrification is much harder than fixing most causes of death. Thus, by the time that devitrification is possible, very few new people will be vitrified (only people who want a one-way trip to the future).
This leads me to 2 conclusions: 1) Most revivals will be of people who were frozen prior to the invention of the revivification technology. Therefore, if anyone is revived, it is because people want to revive people from the past. 2) The supply of people frozen with a given technology (who are willing to be revived, as opposed to the “one-way trip” bodies) will pretty much only decrease.
Assuming people continue to want revive people from the past, they will quickly run out of the easy revivals. If they still want to revive more people, they will have strong incentives to develop new revivification technologies.
That’s a reasonable scenario. As time goes on, though, you run into a lot more what-ifs. At some point, the technology will be advanced enough that they can extract whatever information they want from your brain without reviving you.
I think it would be really interesting to talk to Hitler. But I wouldn’t do this by reviving Hitler and setting him loose. I’d keep him contained, and turn him off afterwards. Is the difference between yourself and Hitler large compared to the difference between yourself and a future post-Singularity AI possessing advanced nanotechnology?