Andrew Vlahos

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Yes! Finally someone gets it. And this isn't just from things that people consider bad, but from what they consider good also. For most of my life "good" meant what people talk about when they are about to make things worse for everyone, and it's only recently that I had enough hope to even consider cryonics, thinking that anyone having power over me would reliably cause situation worse than death regardless of how good their intentions were.

Elieser is trying to code in a system of ethics that would remain valid even if the programmers are wrong about important things, and therefore is one of very few people with even a chance of successfully designing a good AI, but almost everyone else is just telling the AI what they should do. That's why I oppose the halt in AI research he wants.

Actually I posted a comment below the article, quoting an Alcor representative's clarification: 

"Most Members submit a Statement of Revival Preferences document to state your expectations upon revival.

Alcor cannot guarantee that it will be followed since it will be many years into the future before you are revived.

I have attached the document for your review." (and the document was very detailed)

So Alcor says that they actually are willing to do this and are trying, although they of course can't guarantee that society won't in the future decide to force revive people against their will anyway.

New update: I can't do this anyway because I'm getting partial disability (Social Security Supplemental Income) and Rudi Hoffman said insurance companies won't insure people who get any disability payments, even if they have a job. I can't even save up for it slowly because in the US people on SSSI are forbidden from saving more than $2,000 in funds (reason: bureaucratic stupidity) and although I can save by putting money into an ABLE account (which has its own bureaucratic complications) the limit is $100,000 which might not be enough if prices adjust for inflation before I have enough. :(

Cryptocurrency won't fix this: I've tried crypto before and got scammed, so it can't be trusted even if the government doesn't catch me trying to evade the law.

Something really frustrating is that the reason I'm even on disability in the first place is because of society's insanity.

An Alcor representative clarified the point:

"Most Members submit a Statement of Revival Preferences document to state your expectations upon revival.

Alcor cannot guarantee that it will be followed since it will be many years into the future before you are revived.

I have attached the document for your review."

So I guess this is already being done

Actually I think you did understand my post. What I'm confused about is that I wanted to have the option to specify "I don't want to be brought back unless X and Y", I asked them and they said they wouldn't allow me to do this, and you said that they did allow you to do this. I asked a few years ago and got a similar answer.

Could someone else who signed up for Alcor reply to this and say if they got something like that?

But I asked Alcor specifically if something like this would be possible, and they said that it wouldn't be. (Along with CI)

Not me. However, I thought of that part in Dr. Seuss where someone watches a bee to make it more productive, someone watches that watcher to make him more productive, someone watches him and so on.For all the busy bees, and all the watch watchers | tabitha ...

Social media could be a factor, but a much bigger one is that kids are so ludicrously overcontrolled all day every day that they often get no opportunity for good experiences.

My childhood was much closer to Comazotz from A Wrinkle in Time than to a healthy upbringing.

Yeah, portions are way too big now. I'm 6 feet, 4 inches tall. Having two meals per day is quite enough for me, I only order one thing when I go to restaurants and I'm always too full to eat dessert. If I was a normal height and tried eating three meals per day, I would definitely be too fat.

(To be clear, I'm in the US. It's extreme portion sizes get commentary from visiting europeans

Not quite what you asked, but there's a post: "The Best Textbooks on Every Subject" that seems like it can help.

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