So does this mean I shouldn’t spend money on cryonics?Of course you shouldn't. It's a complete waste of money and energy. Not only is the success probability incredibly low, but even if it succeeds, there's no reason to believe the reconstructed 'you' will be enjoying life rather than hating it. You'll be giving all control over your consciousness and suffering into the hands of future entities with who knows what kinds of motivations.
As for 'workaholics do smile', so do kidnapped torture victims when their captors tell them to. They write love letters to them on command. Also see stockholm syndrome.
Will existence at least be voluntary in the future? You bet it won't be, because if they let you exist at all, that means someone has invested something in you and they're obviously going to want something in return. That's why we don't allow minors or even adults to die painlessly when they say they want to. And ems are going to be completely under control of their owners. In the best case scenario, they are manipulated by mind control and well-shaped reward functions. In the worst case, they're threatened into obedience by threats of torture, and self-termination is never an option.
I'm not going to risk existence in such a context, but I guess it depends on how optimistic or pessimistic you look at it.
Robert Trivers has written a book called "Deceit and Self-Deception".
For a review see here.
So does this mean I shouldn’t spend money on cryonics?Of course you shouldn't. It's a complete waste of money and energy. Not only is the success probability incredibly low, but even if it succeeds, there's no reason to believe the reconstructed 'you' will be enjoying life rather than hating it. You'll be giving all control over your consciousness and suffering into the hands of future entities with who knows what kinds of motivations.
As for 'workaholics do smile', so do kidnapped torture victims when their captors tell them to. They write love letters to them on command. Also see stockholm syndrome.
Will existence at least be voluntary in the future? You bet it won't be, because if they let you exist at all, that means someone has invested something in you and they're obviously going to want something in return. That's why we don't allow minors or even adults to die painlessly when they say they want to. And ems are going to be completely under control of their owners. In the best case scenario, they are manipulated by mind control and well-shaped reward functions. In the worst case, they're threatened into obedience by threats of torture, and self-termination is never an option.
I'm not going to risk existence in such a context, but I guess it depends on how optimistic or pessimistic you look at it.