I mean “one foot in the future” to refer to your resulting psychological state, not to a fact related to your likely personal future. I think it’s pretty unlikely I’ll be suspended and reanimated—many other fates are more likely, including never being declared dead. But I think signing up is a move towards a different attitude to the future.
But I think signing up is a move towards a different attitude to the future.
Is this just a plausible guess, or do we have other evidence that it’s true, e.g. people spontaneously citing being signed up for cryonics as causing them to feel the future is real enough to help optimally philanthropize into existence?
I mean “one foot in the future” to refer to your resulting psychological state, not to a fact related to your likely personal future. I think it’s pretty unlikely I’ll be suspended and reanimated—many other fates are more likely, including never being declared dead. But I think signing up is a move towards a different attitude to the future.
Is this just a plausible guess, or do we have other evidence that it’s true, e.g. people spontaneously citing being signed up for cryonics as causing them to feel the future is real enough to help optimally philanthropize into existence?
It’s a guess.