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dennisgorelik
·vor 9 Jahren·discuss
> Servants get paid

Not necessarily. They could be volunteers.

> freedom to choose their own destiny

Lola had the freedom to choose when she was deciding to move to the US. She also had freedom to choose when she was deciding whether to keep working for that family. If she wanted - she could walk out any time.

Lola also wanted to keep working even when she retired and was even discouraged from working.

Calling that relationship "slavery" is not fair to actual "slaves" who were forced to work against their will.
dennisgorelik
·vor 9 Jahren·discuss
Lola was a servant, but not a slave. She was much closer to being a volunteer than to a slave.
dennisgorelik
·vor 9 Jahren·discuss
> but now can spend much less.

... or more (for the same amount of homework), if her spouse started earning more.
dennisgorelik
·vor 15 Jahren·discuss
1) By default new technology is broken (until proven working in tests). There are virtually no examples of new complex technology working without prior testing and improvements.

2) You are extremely optimistic. Life expectancy improves for about 1 year in every 5 years (I'm quite optimistic with that estimate too).

So if you are 30 now, then by the time you are 80 life expectancy would change from 78 years (today) to 88 years(50 years from now).

So basically you have about 60 more years to live if you are lucky.

No way that freezing technology would improve into something meaningful by then.
dennisgorelik
·vor 15 Jahren·discuss
The chance that complex technology that has never been tested - works - is very close to zero.

That complex technology is freezing human bodies in attempt to preserve it for the future.

Even if in the future recovering technologies work - non-working first step (freezing) which is done today - will kill overall process.

http://aidevelopment.blogspot.com/2008/12/cryonics.html
dennisgorelik
·vor 15 Jahren·discuss
Original URL does not work at this moment.

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dennisgorelik
·vor 15 Jahren·discuss
Where did you get this "at least 5% chance of working" number for cryonics?

It's at least 3 orders of magnitude lower than that: no one was recovered from that frozen state alive so far.