rwallace comments on Dying Outside - Less Wrong

179 Post author: HalFinney 05 October 2009 02:45AM

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Comment author: rwallace 06 October 2009 05:52:32PM 2 points [-]

Sympathies, and best wishes for continuing happy and productive life. Keep us posted on how things go!

I'm also in the camp that would not choose such measures for myself, partly for the reasons Peter discusses.

However, the resource argument does not, I think, apply to cryonics. Cryonics has very strong economies of scale, the upshot of which is that if you pay $X for an attempt to save your own life that way, you're effectively also contributing nearly $X to trying to save future patients' lives, without having to pay anything extra.