<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Will Steinberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steinberg.will@gmail.com" target="_blank">steinberg.will@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>We're all probably going to die. But hey, God is real and the afterlife might be too! Why not help out the future generations in any case? If you spend your whole life trying to preserve your individual physical consciousness, you're not going to be very happy in the case that it doesn't work out.<br>
<br></div>Eggs in one basket!<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Eh. One can undertake actions that both lower the possibility of personal death (or at least, raise the possibility of post-cryonic resurrection) and make things better for future generations, at the same time. (Indeed, most things that make life better for future generations arguably increase the chance of P.-C. R.: if you do have to go cryo, which type of world is more likely to revive you - a crapsack post-apocalypse world, or a utopia you helped create but did not survive to enjoy?)<br>
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