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Even if the chances are low, it's still better than the alternative.
by TylerLives 2y ago
Even if the chances are low, it's still better than the alternative.
- jondwillis 2y agoDebatable.
- unsupp0rted 2y agoWhat are the cons?
- FooBarBizBazz 2y agoYou are ripped out of blissful union with the Universe and thrust back into the world of flesh and suffering? (As a billionaire though.)
- unsupp0rted 2y agoEasy solution there
- polski-g 2y agoYou are awakened in 1000 years and tortured for eternity by CyberGPT 1000.
- pfdietz 2y agoMaking it easy for Roko's Basilisk.
- matthewdgreen 2y agoYou’re revived in the year 2190 by a totalitarian state who wants to use you to fly a space mission that no sane person would volunteer for. (That’s the plot of Niven’s “A World Out of Time”.)
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoYou're revived in the year 2190 by a totalitarian communist state specifically so that they can have a show trial and then torture and execute you.
- worstspotgain 2y agoYou are revived penniless and have to jump a border fence to work for scraps cleaning a rich GPU's bathroom.
- kradeelav 2y agothat physical/mental pain in the process (much like more severe surgeries) is a thing - especially if it's something you retain any amount of consciousness with. there's also the elephant in the room of coming back as a vegetable. whether due to biological damage or the brain simply not being able to recalibrate.
- reginald78 2y agoThere was a really horrible and thought provoking movie on this on netflix, I wish I could remember the name. Basically a guy is revived but they're still experimenting with the unrefined process so he lives as an experiment trapped in a hospital.
- pohl 2y agoIs it? The alternatives include things like using that fortune to do good.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoYeah but that won't make me feel good
- 999900000999 2y agoThe alternative is dying a natural death of old age. This is apart of the human experience. Getting frozen and brought back in the distant future, even if we assume you'll be in great health, means all your friends and family are gone. Maybe you'll wake up in a distopian nightmare?
- djokkataja 2y ago> The alternative is dying a natural death of old age. This is apart of the human experience. This seems almost comically lemming-like. Fear of missing out . . . on dying? > Getting frozen and brought back in the distant future, even if we assume you'll be in great health, means all your friends and family are gone. (Assuming none of your friends and family were also frozen.) But more importantly, I wouldn't suggest that people should aspire to death because of losing all their friends and family. If starting over (in what's likely an unfamiliar society and culture) is all one's got, that's still something. Mainly I find it grotesque that it might be a way to slip past death, but only for rich people. But I can't bring myself to suggest that it would necessarily be a better universe if they took the normal death route instead.
- JohnFen 2y agoThat's not obviously the case at all. But unless someone actually does it, we'll never know either way.