It depends on how likely I am to get poorly resurrected if I don’t spend the money, and what else I could be doing with the money. Right now I’m not even signed up to be cryopreserved at all. So my revealed preferences say “none.” But I might sign up some other time. Another question is how much I would spend if I had less akrasia, and was more able to intuitively understand large numbers. But if I had no akrasia and could understand large numbers easily, maybe I would not be spending money on cryonics at all, because I would be living in a hut so I could give all my money to effective charities.
But there’s also the question of “If there weren’t such good things to spend money on in your life, how much resources (say you’re trading off vacation days full of fun) would you spend to not be brain-damaged when you are living for billions of years?” And the answer is probably billions, if I as an expected utility maximizer.
I was thinking the question was asked where you had a bunch of frozen people, who had been frozen for a long time, and none of them foresaw what was going to be needed to develop resurrection technology. But, if this was foreseen halfway through the process of freezing people, it could be good to let some people pay their way out of the lottery, if that money could be put to a good enough use (ie saving people’s lives).
It depends on how likely I am to get poorly resurrected if I don’t spend the money, and what else I could be doing with the money. Right now I’m not even signed up to be cryopreserved at all. So my revealed preferences say “none.” But I might sign up some other time. Another question is how much I would spend if I had less akrasia, and was more able to intuitively understand large numbers. But if I had no akrasia and could understand large numbers easily, maybe I would not be spending money on cryonics at all, because I would be living in a hut so I could give all my money to effective charities.
But there’s also the question of “If there weren’t such good things to spend money on in your life, how much resources (say you’re trading off vacation days full of fun) would you spend to not be brain-damaged when you are living for billions of years?” And the answer is probably billions, if I as an expected utility maximizer.
I was thinking the question was asked where you had a bunch of frozen people, who had been frozen for a long time, and none of them foresaw what was going to be needed to develop resurrection technology. But, if this was foreseen halfway through the process of freezing people, it could be good to let some people pay their way out of the lottery, if that money could be put to a good enough use (ie saving people’s lives).