It is actually done only to patients who are clinically dead, as a last chance to survive. The patients who weren’t resurrected don’t lose anything except for the hope to come back to life.
I understand that. I’m not sure I understand your point here, though—wouldn’t it still be an arguably poor use of effort to sign up for cryonics if likely outcomes ranged from (1) an increasingly unlikely chance of people being revived, at best, to (2) being revived by a superintelligence with goals hostile to those of humanity, at worst?
It is actually done only to patients who are clinically dead, as a last chance to survive. The patients who weren’t resurrected don’t lose anything except for the hope to come back to life.
I understand that. I’m not sure I understand your point here, though—wouldn’t it still be an arguably poor use of effort to sign up for cryonics if likely outcomes ranged from (1) an increasingly unlikely chance of people being revived, at best, to (2) being revived by a superintelligence with goals hostile to those of humanity, at worst?