[Question] How likely is it that an ASI which could confer immortality could not resurrect the dead?

The “Is driving worth the risk?” question calculates based on 2 assumptions:

  1. Surviving till approximately 2060 would give one the chance to be made immortal by an artificial super-intelligence

  2. Dying before the advent of ASI would prevent one from ever being made immortal by the ASI.

This related question queries whether assumption 2 makes sense.

When people sign up for cryogenics, they express the belief that an ASI will eventually become able to resurrect people or bits of people who currently qualify as deceased. Cryogenics assumes that an AI which could grant immortality could resurrect the dead as long as the dead go out of their way to make that task as easy as possible.

And of course, there’s an infamous infohazard whose premise assumes that an ASI will eventually be able to simulate every human who’s existed before its creation. Peoples’ tendency to take that infohazard seriously suggests that many believe that an ASI could just resurrect the dead.

If any ASI capable of granting immortality-type life extension would also eventually be able to resurrect people who were considered deceased at the time it came into existence, the cost of dying in a car crash a few years before the singularity would go from “losing infinite years” to “losing the number of years it takes the ASI to solve resurrection”, which puts the value of not dying near the order of magnitude of the original $10 million estimate.

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