Note that if Wright brothers didn’t believe that there was a considerable chance of the plain not crashing, it would be a bad investment to build the plain in the first place. The question is about the cost: does the current state of knowledge support the positive outcome sufficiently to think of designing a plane? To design a plane? To build a plane? To perform an experiment, risking its destruction? To test-pilot a plane, risking one’s life?
The same goes for cryonics, here you risk something like 100 bucks a year.
Sure, I could risk 100 bucks a year on cryonics, and 100 bucks a year on a million other live-forever schemes, if I had 100 million dollars to waste every year.
Or I could invest my money intelligently and use it to help raise my children.
Note that if Wright brothers didn’t believe that there was a considerable chance of the plain not crashing, it would be a bad investment to build the plain in the first place. The question is about the cost: does the current state of knowledge support the positive outcome sufficiently to think of designing a plane? To design a plane? To build a plane? To perform an experiment, risking its destruction? To test-pilot a plane, risking one’s life?
The same goes for cryonics, here you risk something like 100 bucks a year.
Sure, I could risk 100 bucks a year on cryonics, and 100 bucks a year on a million other live-forever schemes, if I had 100 million dollars to waste every year.
Or I could invest my money intelligently and use it to help raise my children.