Cryonics is around 20 bucks a month if you get it through insurance, plus 120 to sign up.
With that out of the way, I think there is substantial difference between “no LEV in 20 years” and “nothing can be done”. For one thing, known interventions—diet, exercise, very likely some chemicals—can most likely increase your life expectancy by 10-30 years depending on how right you get it, age, health and other factors. For another thing, even if working on the cause, donating to it or advocating for it won’t help yourself, it can still help many people you know and love, not to mention everyone else. Finally, the whole point of epistemic rationality (arguably) is to work correctly with probabilities. How certain you are that there will be no LEV in 20 years? If there’s a 10% chance, isn’t it’s worth giving a try and increasing it a bit? If you ~100% certain, where do you get this information?
Cryonics is around 20 bucks a month if you get it through insurance, plus 120 to sign up.
With that out of the way, I think there is substantial difference between “no LEV in 20 years” and “nothing can be done”. For one thing, known interventions—diet, exercise, very likely some chemicals—can most likely increase your life expectancy by 10-30 years depending on how right you get it, age, health and other factors. For another thing, even if working on the cause, donating to it or advocating for it won’t help yourself, it can still help many people you know and love, not to mention everyone else. Finally, the whole point of epistemic rationality (arguably) is to work correctly with probabilities. How certain you are that there will be no LEV in 20 years? If there’s a 10% chance, isn’t it’s worth giving a try and increasing it a bit? If you ~100% certain, where do you get this information?