My naively skeptical approach to cryonics hinges on the question of “what happens when (not if) there is a financial failure?”
“When”, because nearly every business enterprise fails in the long term and even those lasting for centuries, like Lloyd’s of London, often experience significant turmoil. What assets does a cryo storage have that are attractive enough to others to take over and keep the existing cryos going? Given that there is no money to be made from it, and there is no penalty for disposing of the (legally dead) bodies stored in the vaults of the bankrupt organization, why would anyone bother? I could find no information on any of the three sites as to the contingency planning for an actual financial failure, only the steps to make it less likely, which is completely unsatisfactory.
Until I find a convincing evidence that entities such as the Alcor Patient Care Trust can survive the relatively likely downfall of the US dollar/economy in the coming decades, as well as many other inevitable white and black swans, believing in the simulation argument and that the afterlife is a part of the simulation seems to be a far cheaper and just as rational a way to get the desired peace of mind.
My naively skeptical approach to cryonics hinges on the question of “what happens when (not if) there is a financial failure?”
“When”, because nearly every business enterprise fails in the long term and even those lasting for centuries, like Lloyd’s of London, often experience significant turmoil. What assets does a cryo storage have that are attractive enough to others to take over and keep the existing cryos going? Given that there is no money to be made from it, and there is no penalty for disposing of the (legally dead) bodies stored in the vaults of the bankrupt organization, why would anyone bother? I could find no information on any of the three sites as to the contingency planning for an actual financial failure, only the steps to make it less likely, which is completely unsatisfactory.
Until I find a convincing evidence that entities such as the Alcor Patient Care Trust can survive the relatively likely downfall of the US dollar/economy in the coming decades, as well as many other inevitable white and black swans, believing in the simulation argument and that the afterlife is a part of the simulation seems to be a far cheaper and just as rational a way to get the desired peace of mind.
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