But that wouldn’t be making you happy. It’d be making someone very much like you happy, but someone you wouldn’t have ever matured into. (You may still care that the latter person isn’t created, or not want to pay for cryonics just for the latter person to be created; that’s not the point.) I doubt that people in the future will have so much disregard for personal identity and autonomy that they would make such modifications to you. Do you think they would prevent someone from committing suicide? If they would make unwanted modifications to you before reviving you, why wouldn’t they be willing to make modifications to unconsenting living people*? They would see your “do not revive unless...” instructions as a suicide note.
* Perhaps because they view you as a lower life form for which more paternalism is warranted than for normal transhuman.
Of course that’s not a strong argument. If you want to be that cautious, you can.
But that wouldn’t be making you happy. It’d be making someone very much like you happy, but someone you wouldn’t have ever matured into. (You may still care that the latter person isn’t created, or not want to pay for cryonics just for the latter person to be created; that’s not the point.) I doubt that people in the future will have so much disregard for personal identity and autonomy that they would make such modifications to you. Do you think they would prevent someone from committing suicide? If they would make unwanted modifications to you before reviving you, why wouldn’t they be willing to make modifications to unconsenting living people*? They would see your “do not revive unless...” instructions as a suicide note.
* Perhaps because they view you as a lower life form for which more paternalism is warranted than for normal transhuman.
Of course that’s not a strong argument. If you want to be that cautious, you can.
I don’t. I wouldn’t be very surprised to wake up modified in some popular way. I’m protecting the bits of me that I especially want safe.
Maybe.
Who says they’re not? (Or: Maybe living people are easier to convince.)