X-Message-Number: 4784
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 21:10:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: Moravec on Cryonics

I have this from Hans Moravec in response to the questions here about his 
lack of interest in cryonics:

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	The main reason I'm indifferent to cryonics or uploading is
that I truly expect to be utterly obsolete within a half century, even
with intelligence augmentation.  It is a kind of maintenance decision:
whether to keep upgrading an old clunker, or to design an entirely new
model.  I'm simply sold on the latter course, for my person as for
everything else.

I don't particularly care about being resurrected either, though I
don't see how it can be avoided (despite what the Buddhists claim).

Regarding the universe determinism argument, no only would I count a
pretty close recreation as good enough, but I believe all possible
universes exist (see the simulation argument leading to that
conclusion in chapter 5 of my new book).  Even inaccurate recreations
will be of some possible universe or other, and in all the many
recreations in all the many universes, any particular exact universe
will come up many, many times.

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Additional note from Charles Platt: I don't think Hans has a lot of 
interest in debating cryonics, so I'm reluctant to continue in my role, 
here, as go-between. I think it would make more sense to move on to other 
topics.

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