Cryonics is an underapreciated path in the ea/rationalist communities I think. Since a) we don’t know everything about the human body, b) we cannot predict how future technologies will work and c) we believe AI will rapidly enhance biology then nobody can rule out cryonics having > 0% chance of working. And since there is the option of insurance that makes it ±1.5k per year in total a negligible cost then why isnt it more popular? As someone put it, if you know the place is going down and you are handed a sketchy parachute or no parachute for sure you chose the former.
Cryonics is an underapreciated path in the ea/rationalist communities I think. Since a) we don’t know everything about the human body, b) we cannot predict how future technologies will work and c) we believe AI will rapidly enhance biology then nobody can rule out cryonics having > 0% chance of working. And since there is the option of insurance that makes it ±1.5k per year in total a negligible cost then why isnt it more popular? As someone put it, if you know the place is going down and you are handed a sketchy parachute or no parachute for sure you chose the former.