From: Robin Hanson (hanson@econ.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 14 1998 - 14:37:54 MDT
At 12:52 PM 8/14/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>> the probability that cryonics will work. ...
>> My estimate ... is the probability that I
>> will ever be revived if frozen today. And it was ">5%".
>
>Did you take into consideration an estimate of the probability that the
>Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct, and that you
>can be said to be revived if it occurs in any world that stems from one
>in which you are frozen? :-)
I favor the Many Worlds interpretation, but not your definition of
"revived" ;-).
Robin Hanson
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