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Freezing to (not) death: cryonics and the quest for immortality (with Max Marty)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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Krannics and the Expected Value Case

Roxanne Jones: It's interesting because if you make a kind of expected value case for Krannics and you say, well, even if there's only a one in a hundred chance of being revived, as long as you have enough money where it's not too big a burden for you to spend money on it. And I think for some people, then they start thinking, well, but like,  if there's a one in 5,000 chance that I like live as a brand new vat for, you know, million years,. That actually affects the expected value case in a lot. She says she doesn't see cryonics making these scenarios much more likely to

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