Mati_Roy
seems likes this has now been automated ^^ https://pdftobrainrot.org/generate
I don’t feel strongly about this one way or another, but I think it’s reasonable to expend the term cryonics to mean any brain preservation method done with the hope for future revival as that seems like the core concept people are referring to when using the term. When the term was first coined, room temperature options weren’t a thing. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PG4D4CSBHhijYDvSz/refactoring-cryonics-as-structural-brain-preservation
Steven Universe s1e5 is about a being that follows commands literally, and is a metaphor for some AI risks
I don’t know. The brain preservation prize to preserve the connective of a large mammal was won with aldehyde-stabilization though
Oregon Brain Preservation uses a technique allowing fridge temperature storage, and seem well funded, so idk if the argument works out
Idk the finances for Cryonics Germany, but I would indeed guess that Tomorrow Bio has more funding + provides better SST. I would recommend using Tomorrow Bio over Cryonics Germany if you can afford it
To be clear, it’s subsidized. So it’s not like there’s no money to maintain you in preservation. As far as I know, Oregon Brain Preservation has a trust similar to Alcor in terms of money per volume preserved for it’s cryonics patients. Which seems more than enough to maintain in storage just with the interests. Of course, there could be major economic disruptions that change that. I’m not sure about how much Cryonics Germany is putting aside though.
Plus, Oregon Brain Preservation’s approach seems to work at fridge temperature rather than requiring PB2 temperature.
What would a guarantee mean here? Like they give money to your heirs if they accidentally thaw you? I’m not sure what you’re asking.
Alternatives to that are paid versions of cryonics or otherwise burial and cremation.
fair enough! maybe i should edit my post with “brain preservation some through cryonics for indefinite storage with the purpose of future reanimation is sufficiently subsidized to be free or marginally free in some regions of the world” 😅
i don’t think killing yourself before entering the cryotank vs after is qualitatively different, but the latter maintains option value (in that specific regard re MUH) 🤷♂️
if you’re alive, you can kill yourself when s-risks increases beyond your comfort point. if you’re preserved, then you rely on other people to execute on those wishes
I mean, it’s not a big secret, there’s a wealthy person behind it. And there’s 2 potential motivations for it:
1) altruistic/mission-driven
2) helps improve the service to have more cases, which can benefit themselves as well.But also, Oregon Brain Preservation is less expensive as a result of:
1) doing brain-only (Alcor doesn’t extract the brain for its neuro cases)
2) using chemical preservation which doesn’t require LN2 (this represents a significant portion of the cost)
3) not including the cost of stand-by, which is also a significant portion (ie. staying at your bedside in advance until you die)
4) collaborating with local funeral homes (instead of having a fully in-house team that can be deployed anywhere)
5) only offering the service locally (no flights)I visited Oregon Brain Preservation, talked with Jordan Spark and exchanged emails, and been following them for many years, and Jordan seems really solid IMO.
Cryonics Germany people seem very caring and seem to understand well how to work with a thanatologist. I also had email exchanges with them, but not as much.
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Concerns about personal s-risks makes sense.
I mean, you can trust it to preserve your brain more than you can trust a crematorium to preserve your brain.
And if you do chemical preservation, the operational complexity of maintaining a brain in storage is fairly simple. LN2 isn’t that complex either, but does have higher risks.
That said, I would generally suggest using Tomorrow Biostasis for Europe residents if you can afford it.
Cryonics is free
here’s my new fake-religion, taking just-world bias to its full extreme
the belief that we’re simulations and we’ll get transcended to Utopia in 1 second because future civilisation is creating many simulations of all possible people in all possible contexts and then uploading them to Utopia so that from anyone’s perspective you have a very high probability of transcending to Utopia in 1 second
^^
Is the opt-in button for Petrov Day a trap? Kinda scary to press on large red buttons 😆
Llifelogging as life extension version of this post would be like “You Only Live 1.5 Times” ^^
epistemic status: speculative, probably simplistic and ill defined
Someone asked me “What will I do once we have AGI?”
I generally define the AGI-era starting at the point where all economically valuable tasks can be performed by AIs at a lower cost than a human (at subsistance level, including buying any available augmentations for the human). This notably excludes:
1) any tasks that humans can do that still provide value at the margin (ie. the caloric cost of feeding that human while they’re working vs while they’re not working rather than while they’re not existing)
2) things that are not “tasks”, such as:
a) caring about the internal experience of the service provider (ex.: wanting a DJ that feels human emotions regardless of its actions) --> although, maybe you could include that in the AGI definition too. but what if you value having a DJ be exactly a human? then the best an AGI could do is 3D print a human or something like that. or maybe you’re even more specific, and you want a “pre-singulatarian natural human”, in which case AGI seems impossible by (very contrived) definition.
b) the value of the memories encoded in human brains
c) the value of doing scientific experiments on humans
For my answer to the question, I wanted to say something like, think about what I should do with my time for a long time, and keep my options open (ex.: avoid altering my mind in ways I don’t understand the consequences well). But then, that seems like something that might be economically useful to sell, so using the above definition, it seems like I should have AI system that are able to do that better/cheaper than me (unless I intrinsically didn’t want that, or something like that). So maybe I have AI systems computing that for me and keeping me posted with advice while I do whatever I want.
But maybe I can still do work that is useful at the margin, as per (1), and so would probably do that. But what if even that wasn’t worth the marginal caloric cost, and it was better to feed those calories into AI systems?
(2) is a bit complex, but probably(?) wouldn’t impact the answer to the initial question much.
So, what would I do? I don’t know. Main thing that comes to mind is observe how the worlds unfold (and listen to what the AGIs are telling me).
But maybe “AGI” shouldn’t be defined as “aligned AGI”. Maybe a better definition of AGI is like “outperforming humans at all games/tasks that are well defined” (ie. where humans don’t have a comparative advantage just by knowing what humans value). In which case, my answer would be “alignment research” (assuming it’s not “die”).