I did a reversal test on the preference; if everybody I cared about disappeared from my life all at once and everybody who remained was as alien as the people of the future will likely be, I would probably want to die, no cryonics required.
I bet that online dating and friend making will work a lot better in the future. There probably exist many people in the future that appreciate your unique knowledge and want to get to know you better.
When you wake up in the future, you will probably immediately meet people from a time not so unlike our own. Going through physical and mental rehab with them could be a good way to form lifelong friendships. You are never going to be the only person from the 20th and 21st century in the future.
Can you talk more about why your future is so dreadful? Stating that all possible futures are worse than death is a strong statement. In this reversal test, it even assigns a “probably” to being suicidal. I think your flaw in reasoning lies there. I don’t think that being “probably” suicidal in the future is sufficient reason to not visit the future.
In our time, we morally justify the forcible hospitalization and medication of suicidal people until they aren’t suicidal anymore. With Friendly AI, this moral justification may remain true in the future, and once you’re on drugs or other brain enhancements, you’ll probably love life and think your self from your first life absolutely insane for preferring death to glorious existence. Again, I think your desire for deep connections with other people is likely to be nearly immediately fixable in the future. This does sound a little dystopian, but I don’t think there exist very many wake-up futures in which your existential misery can not be fixed.
To me, it seems like in nearly all cases it is worth waiting until the future to decide whether or not it is worth living.
“When you wake up in the future, you will probably immediately meet people from a time not so unlike our own. Going through physical and mental rehab with them could be a good way to form lifelong friendships. You are never going to be the only person from the 20th and 21st century in the future.”
Woman: You’re from 1999? I’m from 2029! Say, remember when we got invaded by the cybernetic ape army?
In our time, we morally justify the forcible hospitalization and medication of suicidal people until they aren’t suicidal anymore. With Friendly AI, this moral justification may remain true in the future, and once you’re on drugs or other brain enhancements, you’ll probably love life and think your self from your first life absolutely insane for preferring death to glorious existence. Again, I think your desire for deep connections with other people is likely to be nearly immediately fixable in the future. This does sound a little dystopian, but I don’t think there exist very many wake-up futures in which your existential misery can not be fixed.
I did a reversal test on the preference; if everybody I cared about disappeared from my life all at once and everybody who remained was as alien as the people of the future will likely be, I would probably want to die, no cryonics required.
I bet that online dating and friend making will work a lot better in the future. There probably exist many people in the future that appreciate your unique knowledge and want to get to know you better.
When you wake up in the future, you will probably immediately meet people from a time not so unlike our own. Going through physical and mental rehab with them could be a good way to form lifelong friendships. You are never going to be the only person from the 20th and 21st century in the future.
Can you talk more about why your future is so dreadful? Stating that all possible futures are worse than death is a strong statement. In this reversal test, it even assigns a “probably” to being suicidal. I think your flaw in reasoning lies there. I don’t think that being “probably” suicidal in the future is sufficient reason to not visit the future.
In our time, we morally justify the forcible hospitalization and medication of suicidal people until they aren’t suicidal anymore. With Friendly AI, this moral justification may remain true in the future, and once you’re on drugs or other brain enhancements, you’ll probably love life and think your self from your first life absolutely insane for preferring death to glorious existence. Again, I think your desire for deep connections with other people is likely to be nearly immediately fixable in the future. This does sound a little dystopian, but I don’t think there exist very many wake-up futures in which your existential misery can not be fixed.
To me, it seems like in nearly all cases it is worth waiting until the future to decide whether or not it is worth living.
“When you wake up in the future, you will probably immediately meet people from a time not so unlike our own. Going through physical and mental rehab with them could be a good way to form lifelong friendships. You are never going to be the only person from the 20th and 21st century in the future.”
Woman: You’re from 1999? I’m from 2029! Say, remember when we got invaded by the cybernetic ape army?
Fry: Uh… yeah. Those were some crazy times!
Yeah, uh… threatening me with psychoactive medication is not a good way to make me buy a ticket to the future.
Resistance is illogical, you will be upgraded.
I take it you read “Transmetropolitan?” I don’t think that particular reference case is very likely.
I have not read that (*googles*) series of comic books.