Safer for the universe maybe, perhaps not for the old person themselves. Cryonics is highly speculative-it *should* work, given that if your information is preserved it should be possible to reconstruct you, and cooling a system enough should reduce thermal noise and reactivity enough to preserve information… but we just don’t know. From the perspective of someone near death, counting on cryonics might be as risky or more so than a quick AI.
Safer for the universe maybe, perhaps not for the old person themselves. Cryonics is highly speculative-it *should* work, given that if your information is preserved it should be possible to reconstruct you, and cooling a system enough should reduce thermal noise and reactivity enough to preserve information… but we just don’t know. From the perspective of someone near death, counting on cryonics might be as risky or more so than a quick AI.