From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Mon May 07 2001 - 18:12:45 MDT
Yeah but the cost (at least for me here in the USA) is less than the cost
of my car insurance every month. If you can't afford to insure yourself
instead of your car, then you should re-evalute your priorities :-)
Max M wrote:
>
> > From: E. Shaun Russell
> > --------------------------------------
> > | Not Signed Up | Signed Up |
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > If Cryonics Doesn't Work | You're Dead | You're Dead |
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > If Cryonics Does Work | You're Dead | You're Not Dead |
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Seems like a pretty easy choice to me...
>
> Havn't we discussed this before and found that the basic fallacy here is
> pretending that it is without cost to sign up?
>
> If using your money for signing up for Cryonics gives you a lower overall
> chance of surviving indefinately than using them for general healthcare or
> other things to improve your longivity it's not such an easy choice.
>
> regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark
-- Brian Atkins Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.singinst.org/
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