[ExI] Giving up autonomy for cryogenic suspension

[BillK]

On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 at 16:00, Will Steinberg via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> One of my personal nightmare scenarios is being frozen, having my body stolen in the hundreds-of-years interim, and waking up imprisoned as some kind of fucked up slave, possibly a sex slave.
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> I've never heard anyone talk about this but in my opinion it's a huge issue.  You are trusting people with your body, not just to keep it alive, but to keep it safe from interlocutors.  How is it possible to guarantee safety over these time periods?  Who's to say Alcor doesn't go bankrupt, or suffer a burglary, in 70 years or something?
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> Is there any philosophically rigorous solution to this?  The only thing I can really think of is some kind of system that would wake you up periodically to check on things and decide if you wanted to stay frozen, but that's likely not possible (at least yet.) Any security can be broken, right?
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Nobody can guarantee hundreds of years into the future. Governments
and laws might change, society will change, and the singularity might
arrive. But Alcor is aware of the problem and has plans in place to
try to survive.

If the future world is a really terrible dystopia, then they probably
won't bother reviving you and you just won't wake up.
In the future, if society is able to revive you, then they will have
nanotech and lots of other cool tech. i.e. a much better world than
the present. Robots for sex and companionship will be superior to
revived humans. You may be revived into a younger body or into a
virtual world (just call it heaven). Such a future world won't be
interested in experimenting / torturing a primitive human.

I try not to worry about problems that might never arise in the
future, especially problems that might arise after I officially die.
:)





BillK