What I don’t understand is that we live on a planet, where we don’t have all people with significant loose change
A) signing up for cryonics
B) super-saturating the coffers of life-extensionists, extinction-risk-reducers, and AGI developers.
Instead we currently live on a planet, where their combined (probably) trillions of currency units are doing nothing but bloating as 1s and 0s on hard drives.
“trillions of currency units are doing nothing but bloating as 1s and 0s on hard drives”
This seems very unlikely. Most people with significant savings have it invested in stocks, bonds, or other investments—that is, they’ve given it to other people to do something with it that they think will turn a profit. Of the money that is sitting in bank accounts, most of it is lent out, again to people planning to actually do something with it (like build business, build houses, or buy things on credit).
It’s pretty straightforward, most people don’t believe that cryonics or life-extension techniques have a reasonable chance of success within their lifetimes. As for extinction-risk-reduction, most people doubt that there are serious extinction risks that can feasibly be mitigated.
Given those (perhaps misguided beliefs), then what should they spend their money on other than improving their quality of life to the best degree they know how?
When the first person is brought back from cryonic sleep and the disease that put them there cured, you can expect an enormous surge of interest. When someone lives to 150 due to them practicing some sort of life-extension technique, there will be a massive interest. As for extinction-risk-reduction, it would take a lot to get people interested, because extinction is something that hasn’t happened for what seems like a really long time and we tend to assume dramatic changes are extremely unlikely.
What I don’t understand is that we live on a planet, where we don’t have all people with significant loose change
A) signing up for cryonics B) super-saturating the coffers of life-extensionists, extinction-risk-reducers, and AGI developers.
Instead we currently live on a planet, where their combined (probably) trillions of currency units are doing nothing but bloating as 1s and 0s on hard drives.
Can someone explain why?
Alas, most people on the planet either:
haven’t heard of cryonics / useful life extension,
don’t take it seriously,
have serious misunderstandings about it, or
reject it for social reasons.
I’m timidly optimistic about the next two generations.
“trillions of currency units are doing nothing but bloating as 1s and 0s on hard drives”
This seems very unlikely. Most people with significant savings have it invested in stocks, bonds, or other investments—that is, they’ve given it to other people to do something with it that they think will turn a profit. Of the money that is sitting in bank accounts, most of it is lent out, again to people planning to actually do something with it (like build business, build houses, or buy things on credit).
It’s pretty straightforward, most people don’t believe that cryonics or life-extension techniques have a reasonable chance of success within their lifetimes. As for extinction-risk-reduction, most people doubt that there are serious extinction risks that can feasibly be mitigated.
Given those (perhaps misguided beliefs), then what should they spend their money on other than improving their quality of life to the best degree they know how?
When the first person is brought back from cryonic sleep and the disease that put them there cured, you can expect an enormous surge of interest. When someone lives to 150 due to them practicing some sort of life-extension technique, there will be a massive interest. As for extinction-risk-reduction, it would take a lot to get people interested, because extinction is something that hasn’t happened for what seems like a really long time and we tend to assume dramatic changes are extremely unlikely.