WRONG! If they’re able to re-animate preserved people, what makes you think they won’t be able to prevent suicide?
What if they don’t believe in a right to die? There’s no guarantee that you’ll be able to die, if you wake up in a world where cryo revival actually worked.
Or, if I woke up disabled or in an R2D2 robot body, how would I actually go about killing myself? I mean, you can say “roll off a cliff” but if there are no cliffs nearby, or the thing is made out of titanium?
There is no guarantee I’d be able to die in that scenario.
Also you are probably underestimating the extent to which advancements over the years would improve your quality of life.
I think you’re underestimating the extent to which advancements may cause catastrophes. We made all these chemicals and machines, now the environment is being destroyed. We made x-ray machines, the first techs to use them used to x-ray their hands to see if the machine was on in the morning—you can imagine what resulted. We’ve learned a lot about science in the last 100 years, great, but now we have nuclear bombs. We may make AI, and there are about 10,000 ways for that to go wrong. I don’t assume technological advancement will lead to a utopia. I hope it does. But to assume that it will is a bad idea. I’d be very interested to see a thorough and well thought out prediction of whether we’ll have a utopia or dystopia in the future, or something that’s neither. I’m really not sure.
Worse : a sensible system would in fact not ONLY give you a “robot body made of titanium” but would maintain multiple backup copies in vaults (and for security reasons, not all of the physical vault locations would be known to you, or anyone) and would use systems to constantly stream updated memory state data to these backup records. (stored as incremental backups, of course)
More than likely, the outcome for “successfully” committing suicide would be to wake up again and face some form of negative consequences for your actions. Suicide could actually be prosecuted as a crime.
WRONG! If they’re able to re-animate preserved people, what makes you think they won’t be able to prevent suicide?
What if they don’t believe in a right to die? There’s no guarantee that you’ll be able to die, if you wake up in a world where cryo revival actually worked.
Or, if I woke up disabled or in an R2D2 robot body, how would I actually go about killing myself? I mean, you can say “roll off a cliff” but if there are no cliffs nearby, or the thing is made out of titanium?
There is no guarantee I’d be able to die in that scenario.
I think you’re underestimating the extent to which advancements may cause catastrophes. We made all these chemicals and machines, now the environment is being destroyed. We made x-ray machines, the first techs to use them used to x-ray their hands to see if the machine was on in the morning—you can imagine what resulted. We’ve learned a lot about science in the last 100 years, great, but now we have nuclear bombs. We may make AI, and there are about 10,000 ways for that to go wrong. I don’t assume technological advancement will lead to a utopia. I hope it does. But to assume that it will is a bad idea. I’d be very interested to see a thorough and well thought out prediction of whether we’ll have a utopia or dystopia in the future, or something that’s neither. I’m really not sure.
Worse : a sensible system would in fact not ONLY give you a “robot body made of titanium” but would maintain multiple backup copies in vaults (and for security reasons, not all of the physical vault locations would be known to you, or anyone) and would use systems to constantly stream updated memory state data to these backup records. (stored as incremental backups, of course)
More than likely, the outcome for “successfully” committing suicide would be to wake up again and face some form of negative consequences for your actions. Suicide could actually be prosecuted as a crime.