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> Making predictions is the main way to test out theories. Only if you can then test those predictions otherwise they're kinda useless beyond philosophical reas

> Making predictions is the main way to test out theories. Only if you can then test those predictions otherwise they're kinda useless beyond philosophical reasons. > How many medieval people do you think we would unfreeze&revive given such choice? That is a false choice; why are the resources constrained so that the choice is between reviving 100,000 people or extending the lives of 100,000 people? Arguably we should have more resources in the future than today, more professionals, etc so why can't they do two things? Have we stopped scientific research to the point where no one is concentrating on historic man or reviving past humans? People are curious, obviously we would do it. At the very least it would be interesting science. Can we bring back people frozen 200 years ago? Who knows until we try!

dennisgorelik 11y ago
> why are the resources constrained Because resources are always constrained. The only difference is the level of constraint. Consider slightly modified choice: between "extending lives of 1M modern people + revival of 0.1M medieval people" vs "extending lives of 1.1M modern people". Or another choice: "Revival of 1M medieval people" vs "producing 1M clones of modern people". Curiosity about history would make sure that some medieval people would be revived. May be a thousand total. After that resources would be redirected toward cloning best performing modern version of people.
- BinaryIdiot 11y ago
  > Because resources are always constrained. Today sure. Tomorrow? Probably. But if you subscribe to the Kardashev scale then we'll likely become a type 2 or 3 civilization at which point I would consider it very likely that we are resource constrained to the point where this can't be done. I just don't think that would make sense. When we become a type 1 we still might not have any real resource issues but that's harder to predict. So why wouldn't we revive everyone at some point? Seems silly to just let everyone thaw if we have the technology and resources at some point.
  - dennisgorelik 11y ago
    Why revive old person if you can clone new person instead? It does not really matter how much resources you have: if you have a lot, then you clone a lot of modern people, but still ignore obsolete stuff.

dennisgorelik 11y ago

> why are the resources constrained Because resources are always constrained. The only difference is the level of constraint. Consider slightly modified choice: between "extending lives of 1M modern people + revival of 0.1M medieval people" vs "extending lives of 1.1M modern people". Or another choice: "Revival of 1M medieval people" vs "producing 1M clones of modern people". Curiosity about history would make sure that some medieval people would be revived. May be a thousand total. After that resources would be redirected toward cloning best performing modern version of people.

BinaryIdiot 11y ago
> Because resources are always constrained. Today sure. Tomorrow? Probably. But if you subscribe to the Kardashev scale then we'll likely become a type 2 or 3 civilization at which point I would consider it very likely that we are resource constrained to the point where this can't be done. I just don't think that would make sense. When we become a type 1 we still might not have any real resource issues but that's harder to predict. So why wouldn't we revive everyone at some point? Seems silly to just let everyone thaw if we have the technology and resources at some point.
- dennisgorelik 11y ago
  Why revive old person if you can clone new person instead? It does not really matter how much resources you have: if you have a lot, then you clone a lot of modern people, but still ignore obsolete stuff.