Alicorn comments on Normal Cryonics - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Alicorn 27 January 2010 12:31:39AM 2 points [-]

Where did that number come from and what does it refer to?

Comment author: LucasSloan 27 January 2010 12:34:37AM 0 points [-]

Actuarial tables, odds of death for a two year period for someone in their twenties (unless I misread the table, which is not at all impossible).

Comment author: Alicorn 27 January 2010 12:42:35AM * 1 point [-]

It's really that likely? Can I see the tables? The number sounds too pessimistic to me.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 January 2010 12:46:16AM 4 points [-]

Looks like it should be 1/1000 for two years to me.

Comment author: Blueberry 27 January 2010 01:13:14AM 2 points [-]

It should be around 1 in 400 for males in their 20s and 1 in 1000 for females in their 20s.