And there is also the downside risk even if it does work—what if you are reanimated to be a slave of some non-FAI warlord! From this example, we can see that the probability of successful cryo actually resulting in a negative outcome is at least as big as the probability of non-FAI winning out.*
So the question actually reduces to a classic heaven-and-hell or nothing argument—would you rather the chance of heaven with the possibility of hell, or neither?
(*Of course, if the non-FAI sees no need to even have you around and doesn’t even bother thawing you out and just kills you, this is a negative outcome also, as you’ve wasted lots of money.)
...because the first thing warlords do when they take over Scottsdale, Arizona, is invest great amounts of money in technology to revive old people, then use their highly advanced mind-controlling powers to turn them into mentally aware but vicariously controlled slaves, or otherwise coerce their few dozens of old computer scientists and physicists to kick babies and spit on puppies. Because warlords and UnFriendly AIs are evil for the sake of being evil. Makes perfect sense.
(Your parenthetical point is an argument for donating to FAI research, not an argument against getting froze.)
And there is also the downside risk even if it does work—what if you are reanimated to be a slave of some non-FAI warlord! From this example, we can see that the probability of successful cryo actually resulting in a negative outcome is at least as big as the probability of non-FAI winning out.*
So the question actually reduces to a classic heaven-and-hell or nothing argument—would you rather the chance of heaven with the possibility of hell, or neither?
(*Of course, if the non-FAI sees no need to even have you around and doesn’t even bother thawing you out and just kills you, this is a negative outcome also, as you’ve wasted lots of money.)
...because the first thing warlords do when they take over Scottsdale, Arizona, is invest great amounts of money in technology to revive old people, then use their highly advanced mind-controlling powers to turn them into mentally aware but vicariously controlled slaves, or otherwise coerce their few dozens of old computer scientists and physicists to kick babies and spit on puppies. Because warlords and UnFriendly AIs are evil for the sake of being evil. Makes perfect sense.
(Your parenthetical point is an argument for donating to FAI research, not an argument against getting froze.)