Hal Finney being cryopreserved now
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Hal Finney being cryopreserved now
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Re: Hal Finney being cryopreserved now
#2So rare to hear about this kind of thing so "present tense"
And is it just me or is it just a little bit funny to hear about an ALS patient getting frozen cryogenically right as the ice bucket challenge sweeps the globe... I dare say he's truly taken the ultimate ice bucket challenge!
Re: Hal Finney being cryopreserved now
#3So rare to hear about this kind of thing so "present tense" And is it just me or is it just a little bit funny to hear about an ALS patient getting frozen cryogenically right as the ice bucket challenge sweeps the globe... I dare say he's truly taken the ultimate ice bucket challenge!
I didn't know who he was:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(cypherpunk)
"Hal Finney (May 4, 1956 – August 28, 2014) was a developer for PGP Corporation, and was the second developer hired after Phil Zimmerman. In his early career, he is credited as lead developer on several console games"
"In January 2009, Finney was the Bitcoin network's first recipient transaction."
Re: Hal Finney being cryopreserved now
#4I'm curious--in these cryopreservation arrangements, what is done to incentivize future people to resurrect you? Anyone know?
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#5In 2009, he described his experience with ALS in a poignant post titled "Dying Outside": http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ab/dying_outside/ . I'm very sad to see him go.
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#6Interesting that someone would choose to be cryopreserved somewhere where there's no legal assisted suicide. Wouldn't your chances of being successfully revived improve if you got cryopreserved while still alive?
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#7On the topic of cryopreservation, to borrow a question from Scott Aaronson [1]: have you signed up for cryopreservation? And regardless of your answer, how do you defend yourself against the charge of irrationality?
On one hand, it seems like a different version of Pascal's wager - if you can afford it, the upside is potentially far more beneficial than the downside. On the other hand, well, it is crazy...
I can think of one reason for not doing it (personally): I don't necessary want to live in a society that can perform my revival. Not to say that there's anything wrong with that society, they would just be so far away from me that I can't fathom how that would be like.
Re: Hal Finney being cryopreserved now
#8I'm curious--in these cryopreservation arrangements, what is done to incentivize future people to resurrect you? Anyone know?
Well, you make a contract and pay money to the company that cryopreserves you. They could screw you over after you die, but that would be bad for their reputation and they could be sued.
Re: Hal Finney being cryopreserved now
#9Interesting that someone would choose to be cryopreserved somewhere where there's no legal assisted suicide. Wouldn't your chances of being successfully revived improve if you got cryopreserved while still alive?
Re: Hal Finney being cryopreserved now
#10On the topic of cryopreservation, to borrow a question from Scott Aaronson [1]: have you signed up for cryopreservation? And regardless of your answer, how do you defend yourself against the charge of irrationality? On one hand, it seems like a different version of Pascal's wager - if you can afford it, the upside is potentially far more beneficial than the downside. On the other hand, well, it is crazy... I can thin…
I would argue that cryopreservation is the belief in the increasing rate of scientific progress (which can measured and proven), and that it is far more rational than the tens of millions of people who attend church every Saturday or Sunday in search of salvation for their soul.
As /u/dublinben mentioned, I'd give my entire wealth to have the opportunity to live in the future.