I don’t think you’ve proven what you claim to have proven in this post, but it might work as propaganda to increase cyronics enrollment, which should be good for both of us.
Specifically, I don’t think it’s clear that (1) current cryonics technology prevents information-theoretic death, (2) that if I’m “revived” from cryonics such that it fools discernment technology of that era, I’m actually having a subjective conscious experience of being alive and conscious. And perhaps discernment technology 30 years later will tragically demonstrate why, and what could’ve been done differently to preserve me as a subjective conscious entity, (3) future societies with the technology to revive us will choose to.
Separate from propaganda, I think 1-3 are important areas to focus on in terms of research and innovation. We don’t want to be fooled by our own propaganda and thus fail to rationally maximize our persistence odds. We don’t want to be prisoners of our own myths.
Ben,
I kind of disagree with you. First, what we call “general intelligence” is itself a form of specialized intelligence: specializing optimizing successful outcomes in real time in our apparent reality. so the mix you recommend in “achieving great things” would itself be “general intelligence”, not general intelligence plus something else (other than luck).
Since most people who “achieve great things” seem to me to be playing life at least in part as a poker game (they don’t seem to put all their cards out on the table) I think outcomes may be a better measure than propaganda. “Increasingly, as one ages, one worries more about what one DOES, rather than about abstract characterizations of one’s capability.” I’m not sure that comes from wisdom, rather than the rationally adjusted propaganda of an older person (look at my status enabled institutional power to achieve) contrasted with that of the younger person (look at my superior capabilities, with a brain at its physical prime).