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Are you seriously like that? ETA: Shouldn't it be obvious that severed heads are human in a circumstance where they can be restored to life?
by lsparrish 16y ago
Are you seriously like that?
ETA: Shouldn't it be obvious that severed heads are human in a circumstance where they can be restored to life?
- hugh3 16y agoPeople are seriously like that, yes. Maybe people will get revived if and when the technology exists to do so, maybe they won't. It would be a bad idea to rely purely on the kindness of people whose culture may have very little in common with our own, though. Heck, if I get frozen and woken up in the future I'll give you two to one odds that I'm either a zoo exhibit or a slave.
- lsparrish 16y agoYou are giving two to one odds on humanity completely losing their moral compass then. If that's the case, something is seriously wrong and needs to be fixed.
- hugh3 16y agoActually I'm not, I just think that most of the scenarios where someone does wake me up are scenarios in which they don't have my best interests at heart. Far more likely they never wake me up, either because (a) the technology never gets developed or (b) the technology gets developed but my body is too far gone to be revived or (c) the technology gets developed and my body could be revived but nobody ever chooses to do so, for whatever reason. Everybody acknowledges the possibilities (a) and (b), but I do want to bring attention to possibilities (c) and "slave", since I think too many people have too much faith that the people of the far future will consider reviving the frozen heads of long-dead cryonics geeks to be a good use of their presumably-still-not-infinite resources.
- lsparrish 16y agoI'm confused. Scenario (c) sounds inherently dependent on humanity losing its moral compass. So it sounds like your assessment of the risk of such an event occurring is much higher than two to one.