The Cost Benefits of Cryonics

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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

Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason. He is known for a number of his works including Prediction Markets and Futarchy, writings on the possibility of alien life with both the Great Filter and Grabby Aliens, his book The Elephant In The Brain about our social programming, as well as extensive work and thought in the field of artificial intelligence including a very prescient series of debates and writings with Eliezer Yudkowsky 15 years ago.

(0:00) Intro

(0:54) Introducing Robin Hanson

(5:47) Defining basic concepts

(9:47) The alignment problem

(19:43) Property rights in A.I.

(21:48) The recent A.I. ecosystem

(30:01) GPT4

(33:51) A.I. Doomerism

(38:04) Rabbit hole analogy

(43:47) A.I. Critic Scenario

(51:57) Risks associated with A.I.

(57:24) Pausing development on A.I. to focus on implications

(1:02:33) Predictions by 2028 A.I. will not be able to cross

(1:08:15) Fast takeoff scenario

(1:15:39) Brain emulation

(1:22:19) Cryonics

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