Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "" video.

  1. I don't have a problem with life extention ideas and research, and I'm not religious, so I don't really have a faith based objection on something like this. But I do still have objections to this nonetheless. It's all about your expectations, what you value in your life, how you face death, and what you think about yourself and your role during your lifetime - and what you consider plausible and effective for certain key objectives. Cryonics, in particular, is such a far fetched concept that the belief of those bodies being recovered in the future to full shape and full form are more far fetched than the beliefs and faith of several religions. It's actually closer to a cult or something. And I'm talking about the future at all, much much less 100 years or so. See, if you start analyzing past a very surface level of understanding on how we tick, biological processes, how we work, the complexities of the human body, how behind we are and how slow progress is in several key biological areas and all that, you begin to understand that bringing back those frozen corpses, which are what they actually are, is just not something likely to happen at all. People tend to think about near death experiences or stuff like targeted temperature management... or even other animals that hibernate and whatnot - but those cases are far more different to this idea of Cryonics than most realize. It might sound like freezing people is preserving something there, but it's just preserving... corpses. Too much damage has already been done. It's not stasis, it's not freezing time - it's corpse preservation. What I mean by this is that we'd have to reach a technological point where we could basically infer all sorts of things about these people becoming as feasible to recover them as it'd be to say... resurrect a mummy from some egyptian sarcophagus. Or even reconstruct from zero a person based on AI analysis of it's past. Build something based on DNA sample. If we had an incentive for that. Not that I think ideas like immortality are absolutely impossible. It's unlikely that our species will reach it, but being overly optimistic about it, I think the most likely scenario for it to happen is just reaching a point in time when we can accurately capture every single bit of information that goes inside a person's brain, taking a full raw snapshot of that, and then keeping all that information stored until a time we have a working functional artificial body to go along with it. But this isn't a hundred years in the future. If it ever happens, it's more likely thousands of years in the future, and humans won't be doing it... more like AIs. But again, the chances that our species end a long time before that ever gets a chance of happening is just far more likely. You'd have to first believe that we'll survive long enough for extremely complex problems to be solved first. World hunger. Wars. Becoming a space faring civilization. Coming up with a close to infinite resource for power. Eliminating inequality. Etc etc etc. There are numbers and numbers and numbers of priorities. We can't even come up with solutions to pass messages for distant future generations because we don't know what will be the state of civilizations there - like in the exploration cases of signs to warn future people of nuclear waste deposit sites, or seed vaults. Think about the chances frozen corpses will actually get preserved as long as they need to, plus the chances of future generations understanding that the intent is to bring those corpses back to life somehow. With tiny chances like those and the bigger likelihood of those corpses just being dumped in the future when these companies fail, the money runs dry, or an event happens that lays waste to the places they are located.... I'd say your are better off wasting your money in a casino or on the lottery so that you'd have better chances of getting some RoI for it. The distance between me believing in this entire Cryonics thing at the state we're currently in, and believing that in some distant future we'll just have infinitely powerful supercomputers that could perfectly emulate the entire past including ourselves (which we might be already currently living in), are so close together that it doesn't make sense spending a single cent on it. I guess more importantly though, there is absolutely zero reason to go through a whole ton of trouble to resurrect someone like myself. There is no reason for me to live in a far future where my current knowledge will make zero sense, I do not have a role there to fill, no real purpose, so why bother? Why waste money, time, work, brain power or whatever going after something like this?
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