I mean, couldn’t the money spent on cryopreserving oneself be better spend on, say, AI safety research?
Well, ‘better’ here does all the work. It depends on your model and ethics: for example if you think that resuscitation is probably nearer then full AGI, then it’s better to be frozen.
2) Would the human race be eradicated if there is a worst-possible-scenario nuclear incident? Or merely a lot of people?
This question I couldn’t parse correctly. A nuclear war is improbable to wipe out humanity in its entirety, whereby a lot of people is th exact opposite of extinction, so...?
3) Is the study linking nut consumption to longevity found in the link below convincing?
This is far from a stupid question. The sample sizes are at least large, but it has the usual problem of using p-values, which are notoriously very fragile. It would require someone acquainted with statistics to judge better the thing, if it can be done at all.
Well, ‘better’ here does all the work. It depends on your model and ethics: for example if you think that resuscitation is probably nearer then full AGI, then it’s better to be frozen.
This question I couldn’t parse correctly. A nuclear war is improbable to wipe out humanity in its entirety, whereby a lot of people is th exact opposite of extinction, so...?
This is far from a stupid question. The sample sizes are at least large, but it has the usual problem of using p-values, which are notoriously very fragile. It would require someone acquainted with statistics to judge better the thing, if it can be done at all.