I don’t feel as though I deserve to be revived in the future. I suspect that my existence has been a net loss for the world so far. I make garbage. I’ve been educated at taxpayer expense. I’ve done very little that anyone would consider a service worth paying for. I’m a leech, a parasite, a (figurative) basement dweller, a near-hikikomori, a lazy bum, a loser, and plenty of other negative terms. And this isn’t going to change. So why should I leave the future with the burden of dealing with me?
Tell you what. If I make it (to the creation of an FAI), and no one else has already done it, I will personally spend the resources to revive you and pay for your upkeep. I further make this pledge for anyone who is cryopreserved and unwanted.
I think most people who are concerned about revival aren’t really considering on an emotional level FAI at all. I’d considered making the same promise regardless of FAI, but I think that it would be negligent of me to do so, with such important investment opportunities available. Also, I’m not sure I’d have that much money, even for just CronoDAS.
How do you know? Or, in other words, why do you assign a lower priority to this than to cryopreservation actually working?
(If it didn’t work, then it doesn’t matter if you deserved it or not, any money you had would still be redistributed in the society, and you wouldn’t cause any significant expense anymore.)
You should know by now that “I just came up with another excuse” is a red flag for motivated cognition. We might not have even found your true reason for rejection yet...
Well, my true reason might indeed be something more along the lines of “my parents wouldn’t approve of it”.
And the original post referred to reasons not to sign up for cryonics as “excuses” so I copied the terminology. ;)
Yet another possible “true rejection”:
I don’t feel as though I deserve to be revived in the future. I suspect that my existence has been a net loss for the world so far. I make garbage. I’ve been educated at taxpayer expense. I’ve done very little that anyone would consider a service worth paying for. I’m a leech, a parasite, a (figurative) basement dweller, a near-hikikomori, a lazy bum, a loser, and plenty of other negative terms. And this isn’t going to change. So why should I leave the future with the burden of dealing with me?
Tell you what. If I make it (to the creation of an FAI), and no one else has already done it, I will personally spend the resources to revive you and pay for your upkeep. I further make this pledge for anyone who is cryopreserved and unwanted.
Then you’re part of the problem. I’m sick of being a charity case.
I’m pretty sure most people are concerned more with the scenario where revival comes before FAI.
I think most people who are concerned about revival aren’t really considering on an emotional level FAI at all. I’d considered making the same promise regardless of FAI, but I think that it would be negligent of me to do so, with such important investment opportunities available. Also, I’m not sure I’d have that much money, even for just CronoDAS.
That sounds like it could be closer to home.
How do you know? Or, in other words, why do you assign a lower priority to this than to cryopreservation actually working?
(If it didn’t work, then it doesn’t matter if you deserved it or not, any money you had would still be redistributed in the society, and you wouldn’t cause any significant expense anymore.)