The Importance of Care

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I think an uncomfortable question for those who believe that the upload that's just based on a scan of their brain really is them is what if they just upload 100 copies of you? What if those copies don't even know about each other? So there's 100 of you going around, like, which one is you in a meaningful sense? Or let's see yourself interested, right? You're totally selfish. And you have to choose 99 of the 100 are going to be tortured. How would you make that choice? There's all kinds of interesting scenarios like that,. I think that the central problem is we did not evolve to really worry about this. We evolved to, when I wake up

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What is cryonics? And how does it work? What do we know right now about reversing death? And what would we have to learn to make resurrection from a cryogenically frozen state feasible? How much does cryonics cost? What incentives would future people have for reviving a cryo-frozen person? How likely is it that a cryo-frozen person will be brought back in the future? Why do people (even pro-cryonics people) "cryoprastinate" and put off considering cryonics for a later time? What sorts of risks are involved in being frozen and later revived? What philosophical and ethical issues are at stake with cryonics? Would a revived person be able to integrate into a future society? Why is there stigma around cryonics in some cultures?

Max Marty is an entrepreneur and futurist who lived and worked in the Bay Area for 10 years. He's now in Austin and has been working to build the Cryonics community, including co-hosting the Cryonics Underground podcast and running the largest Cryonics discord community: The Cryosphere. He looks forward to getting back into startups in the future, this time in biotech.

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