lessdazed comments on Normal Cryonics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lessdazed 24 September 2011 09:19:24PM *  2 points [-]

the chance of it actually working as advertised (waking up after however long with a brand new perfectly healthy youthful nanotechnologically-grown immortal body) is vanishingly tiny

Am I the only one who thinks it is far more likely that the institution will fail than that the technology is never developed or is never applied?

Corporations, nation-states - few things have lasted hundreds of years with their cores intact. Laws change, market prices of commodities change, wars happen. The United States is not immune.

Comment author: katydee 24 September 2011 09:20:45PM 1 point [-]

Concur. I am moderately confident that cryonics will eventually be a viable technology, assuming normal conditions-- but I am very much not confident that Alcor and the like will live to see that day.

Comment author: lessdazed 24 September 2011 09:22:16PM 3 points [-]

Maybe we can vitrify them?