You don’t treat cryonics like a game of chance where the probability lies out of your control. You treat cryonics like a project where your efforts force probability in directions favorable to you.
No, we don’t, because, to my knowledge, there is no active effort being poured into testing and improving the methods of preservation and resuscitation offered by cryonics providers. Cryonics is given as a take-it-or-leave it proposition, and as one, I cannot assign a high probability that it works.
No, we don’t, because, to my knowledge, there is no active effort being poured into testing and improving the methods of preservation and resuscitation offered by cryonics providers.
While the funding could be better there the Brain Preservation Foundation.
On the other hand a lot of Xrisk prevention also increases chances of successful revival.
While the funding could be better there the Brain Preservation Foundation.
To which I already donate.
On the other hand a lot of Xrisk prevention also increases chances of successful revival.
Has anyone ever put together a budget of how much money “existential risk prevention” actually needs? Because it seems to show up in this community as a black hole of possible altruism which can never be filled.
No, we don’t, because, to my knowledge, there is no active effort being poured into testing and improving the methods of preservation and resuscitation offered by cryonics providers. Cryonics is given as a take-it-or-leave it proposition, and as one, I cannot assign a high probability that it works.
While the funding could be better there the Brain Preservation Foundation.
On the other hand a lot of Xrisk prevention also increases chances of successful revival.
To which I already donate.
Has anyone ever put together a budget of how much money “existential risk prevention” actually needs? Because it seems to show up in this community as a black hole of possible altruism which can never be filled.