It’s counterintuitive to say that being dead is basically null value. If I’m choosing between two courses of action, and one difference is that one of them will involve me dying, that’s a strong factor in making me prefer the other option.
I can think of possible explanations for this that preserve the claim that being dead has value zero, but I’m not seeing a way that would do so only in non-cryonics cases.
Notice the subtle difference in language though. You are talking about dying. Dying is pretty obviously a bad thing. Its only once you are dead that you are in a null state.
Cryo-preservation does not prevent you from dying. You still go through the dying process, and I doubt you are very much comforted by the small chance that you could be revived at some point.
It’s counterintuitive to say that being dead is basically null value. If I’m choosing between two courses of action, and one difference is that one of them will involve me dying, that’s a strong factor in making me prefer the other option.
I can think of possible explanations for this that preserve the claim that being dead has value zero, but I’m not seeing a way that would do so only in non-cryonics cases.
Notice the subtle difference in language though. You are talking about dying. Dying is pretty obviously a bad thing. Its only once you are dead that you are in a null state.
Cryo-preservation does not prevent you from dying. You still go through the dying process, and I doubt you are very much comforted by the small chance that you could be revived at some point.