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6 – Cryonics

The Bayesian Conspiracy

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The Point of Cryonics

The point of cryonics is to make it so that people who aren't informationally dead can be declared legally dead, but they're still theoretically resurrectable or or or savable. If if someone is cryo preserved, you're basically getting them to the hospital where they can be saved. That hospital might be in the year 2,200. You want to get them to a hospital that can save them when that hospital doesn't currently exist. It's not just that I'm getting frozen when I die. The point is is that. You are being preserved. And preserved in such a way that it's completely reasonable to suspect that future scientists might be able to restore you to working condition

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