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I'm having visions of old people freezing their bodies and inducing "dormancy" so they can wake up when the world is a better place. I would invest in that comp
by wdh505 2y ago
I'm having visions of old people freezing their bodies and inducing "dormancy" so they can wake up when the world is a better place. I would invest in that company.
- darth_avocado 2y agoIt won't be very useful if you're already old, more practical approach would be to freeze yourself in your youth until they find a way to stop ageing.
- Nicholas_C 2y agoYou could unfreeze yourself when they figure out how to reverse aging.
- jrflowers 2y agoHow does one unfreeze oneself
- exe34 2y agoVery slowly, to avoid the crystals forming suddenly.
- darth_avocado 2y agoI think microwave is the answer. Though you may end up with a cold heart.
- darth_avocado 2y agoReversing maybe harder than slowing and you would have to wait longer.
- gryfft 2y agoI mean, it's been going on for over fifty years[0]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcor_Life_Extension_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcor_Life_Extension_Foundatio...
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- onionisafruit 2y agoThe real trick is being somebody that a future generation will go to the trouble of defrosting.
- shiroiushi 2y agoThat's a fool's errand. The trick is to make sure your body is continually controlled by some kind of computer that will wake you up when a set of conditions is met, so you don't need to rely on future humans. You also need to make sure your cryopod is stored someplace where troublemakers won't find it and turn it off. The best thing I can think of is putting your cryopod in a lava tube on the Moon, powered by a small nuclear reactor or maybe a large RTG.
- lukan 2y ago"The best thing I can think of is putting your cryopod in a lava tube on the Moon, powered by a small nuclear reactor or maybe a large RTG." And then hope nothing critically fails for centuries ... Unless we have perfectionized robots by the time you go into the cryopod, you might as well bet on humans. And if we "perfectionized robots", that do not fail all the time, we already would have a very different world.
- kolinko 2y agoYou could have multiple failsafes, and after a part of them fail, you dehibernate automatically. We have systems that work well with such approach - planes being the most notable example - multiple redundancies, and when sth critical fails, you land asap. Works most of the time.
- lukan 2y agoAnd then you wake up on the moon in a lava tube too early with a partly failing system and hope that everything else still somewhat works? With current technology level I definitely would rather bet on humans.
- bamboozled 2y agoYou don't need to freeze yourself, you just have children, that is how life goes on.
- phito 2y agoThat's completely different?
- ineedaj0b 2y agosadly not as much as you think. if you have siblings with children and they get older hang out with them. the similarities will worry you
- shiroiushi 2y agoJust ask any parent who had worthless kids how well that works out in practice. Sure, you might get lucky and have good kids, but lots of parents don't, and it's not always their fault.
- bamboozled 2y agoTheir kids might be really nice?
- shiroiushi 2y agoSure, they might be. But they also might not be. The odds really aren't that great, from what I've seen in my life. Imagine you had an opportunity to make an investment. The performance odds of this investment are: 1) a 10% change of making 10 times your money, 2) a 60% chance of doubling your money, and 3) a 30% chance of losing ALL your money (not just the investment amount, but going completely bankrupt) and having your life completely ruined. Would you take that investment? Of course these numbers are made up, but from what I've seen in life, it's probably not that far off: there's a non-zero, and fairly significant chance, of having a really awful kid that really screws up your life. If you're highly risk-averse, it's understandable I think why you might want to pass. Remember, estimates for sociopathy in the general population are 5-10%.
- vajrabum 2y agoIt's still sci-fi I think but we're getting a bit closer. This came out the other day. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40400591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40400591
- aitchnyu 2y agoWhat does science say? I strongly believe what freezes the body will (not just figuratively) pull the plug on the brain.
- lukan 2y agoIf too many not so old people would use it, the effects might be not great: https://xkcd.com/989/ https://xkcd.com/989/
- antifa 2y agoI have a feeling most people rushing to be first in line to freeze themselves for non-terminal-illness-reasons are probably not high productivity individuals.
- lukan 2y agoPossible. And the interesting question will be, why anyone would want to wake them up one day and care for them? Because they signed a contract today with a company that might go out of buisness in 10 years? Good luck to them, I guess.
- bmitc 2y agoI'd short it.
- jimberlage 2y agoWhat if they wake up and the world is a worse place? You're making a big bet that people in the far future will look at your preserved body as a resource to cherish, not one to be exploited.
- science4sail 2y agoI recall reading a Jack Vance novel where cannibals used cryogenic sleepers as a convenient supply of preserved food.