Comment by Jrice1848 on Cryonics and Regret · 2023-07-24T22:17:36.463Z · LW · GW

My mom was dying of throat cancer. I tried to get her to consider cryonics, no go. Suggested it to my Dad, no go. He died in the hospital after an accident. Suggested it to my wife, no go. Suggested it to my daughter, no go. Suggested it to my older brother, no go. With all of these people I offered to pay for it.

Most of the time the answer to “Would you consider cryonic suspension?” will be “Not a chance”. Hopefully the Overton Window will start to shift quickly. We are losing lots of people permanently.

I recently had a melanoma scare. Turned out to be nothing, but I found my ALCOR contract quite comforting.

Comment by Jrice1848 on The ants and the grasshopper · 2023-06-10T17:17:26.153Z · LW · GW

This was one of the most beautiful stories I have ever read.

Comment by Jrice1848 on An Appeal to AI Superintelligence: Reasons to Preserve Humanity · 2023-03-18T18:50:57.074Z · LW · GW

The high probability that we are in a simulation (interesting times  are more likely to be simulated) makes efforts to jailbreak the simulation extremely important. Possibly the most important thing we could do at this time to survive.