They’d have to be very motivated “vandals”, though. (More like people with an agenda than bored/frustrated people the word vandals usually suggests to me.)
If I have N% confidence that continuing to cryopreserve a particular mass of brain tissue will ultimately cause person X to experience Y QALYs, then presumably the value V of continuing such cryopreservation to me is roughly equivalent to the value of N*Y QALYs for X. If I believe Y is very large and N is not offsettingly small, and I significantly value QALYs for X, then presumably V is larger than the value of large sums of money.
In other words, the extortion potential here is enormous. Some people are motivated by that sort of thing.
In other words, the extortion potential here is enormous. Some people are motivated by that sort of thing.
It kind of makes me motivated to put up a sufficiently intimidating fence with a sign “Warning: Trespassers will be forcibly cryopreserved, reanimated then tortured indefinitely.”
Would not work if the trespassers believe that cryopreservation does not work, but would like to extort money from people who believe that cryopreservation works.
(As an analogy, if an atheist wants to make money by kidnapping the Pope, it does not stop them if you say: “but if you do that, the Pope will excommunicate you”.)
Would not work if the trespassers believe that cryopreservation does not work, but would like to extort money from people who believe that cryopreservation works.
It kind of does. “Forcibly cryopreserved” means you kill them.
As an analogy, if an atheist wants to make money by kidnapping the Pope, it does not stop them if you say: “but if you do that, the Pope will excommunicate you”.
… making the correct analogy “The pope will kill you then you will spend eternity in hell.”
They’d have to be very motivated “vandals”, though. (More like people with an agenda than bored/frustrated people the word vandals usually suggests to me.)
If I have N% confidence that continuing to cryopreserve a particular mass of brain tissue will ultimately cause person X to experience Y QALYs, then presumably the value V of continuing such cryopreservation to me is roughly equivalent to the value of N*Y QALYs for X. If I believe Y is very large and N is not offsettingly small, and I significantly value QALYs for X, then presumably V is larger than the value of large sums of money.
In other words, the extortion potential here is enormous. Some people are motivated by that sort of thing.
It kind of makes me motivated to put up a sufficiently intimidating fence with a sign “Warning: Trespassers will be forcibly cryopreserved, reanimated then tortured indefinitely.”
Would not work if the trespassers believe that cryopreservation does not work, but would like to extort money from people who believe that cryopreservation works.
(As an analogy, if an atheist wants to make money by kidnapping the Pope, it does not stop them if you say: “but if you do that, the Pope will excommunicate you”.)
It kind of does. “Forcibly cryopreserved” means you kill them.
… making the correct analogy “The pope will kill you then you will spend eternity in hell.”