RichardKennaway comments on Normal Cryonics - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 January 2010 07:08PM

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 25 January 2010 02:47:06PM *  4 points [-]

The best alternative to cryonics is to never need it -- to live long enough to be able to keep living longer, as new ways of living longer are developed. Cryonics is only an emergency lifeboat into the future. If you need the lifeboat you take it, but only when the ship is doomed.

Comment author: ciphergoth 25 January 2010 03:28:25PM 5 points [-]

Or as Ralph Merkle put it, "cryonic suspension is the second-worst thing that can happen to you".