Jeffrey Ladish Due to hyperbolic discounting, future humans quickly...

April 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM  ·  Comment — Archer T. Ships replied to his own comment.  ·  View on Facebook  ·  Markdown source

Jeffrey Ladish Due to hyperbolic discounting, future humans quickly lose any value relative to existing, present day humans. People alive right now (including myself) have a lot more value to me than future humans. And we're currently losing ~115 K people/day to aging. I did research on organ cryopreservation early in my career and I think you vastly underestimate the difficulty of brain preservation and recovery via cryonics. We don't even know that we're preserving anything that is recoverable by any plausible future technology. Moreover, only a handful of early cryonicists are still frozen. The longer someone is in stasis, the more likely something will destroy the patient or the cryonics facility (financial collapse, lawsuits, government oppression, war, natural disaster, etc). The faster sentient life can free ourselves from our delicate evolved bodies, the better.