[ExI] Giving up autonomy for cryogenic suspension

[John Grigg]

Will Steinberg wrote:
"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."

You should read this classic science fiction novel by A.A. Attanasio... Cue
evil laughter! Lol
<https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5217055.A_A_Attanasio>

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/552286.Solis


On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 11:59 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> 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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