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EP 59: Robin Hanson (Economist) -So AI Is Not Going to Kill Us All?

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The Cost Benefits of Cryonics

When medical science gives up on me, or I give up on it, then basically the plan is to freeze my head in liquid nitrogen after putting chemicals in it that will allow it not to crack when it freezes. While you are frozen in liquid nitrogen, basically nothing happens. You know, there's just no changes. So once you're frozen, there are some changes that happen during the freezing process. But my judgment is that's relatively minor compared to how redundant the information is encoded in my brain. And therefore, it would be relatively straightforward to make a brain emulation of me if only the organization I trust to keep me frozen actually does that. If this works, I could live for centuries

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