If cryonics works, then money spent on cryonics is much more of an investment than money spent on conventional charity. Several million people die every month. Malaria nets can only stop a small fraction of that, no matter how many are made, but cryonics can stop almost all of it—if it works. Anything done in support of cryonics in its fledgling form will help it to scale up.
The future won’t revive you because it needs you to solve the Y3K problem, but we also don’t save children from dying in order that they can go back to work the next day. Cryonics is a way to stop a life from being cut off, with the side effect that the cryonaut wakes up as a mere human in a transhuman world. If it’s a friendly place, they’ll have a chance to grow into their new world as an equal and a participant.
If cryonics works, then money spent on cryonics is much more of an investment than money spent on conventional charity. Several million people die every month. Malaria nets can only stop a small fraction of that, no matter how many are made, but cryonics can stop almost all of it—if it works. Anything done in support of cryonics in its fledgling form will help it to scale up.
The future won’t revive you because it needs you to solve the Y3K problem, but we also don’t save children from dying in order that they can go back to work the next day. Cryonics is a way to stop a life from being cut off, with the side effect that the cryonaut wakes up as a mere human in a transhuman world. If it’s a friendly place, they’ll have a chance to grow into their new world as an equal and a participant.