Thanks. The bottom half I'm already planning to yank up to a post, per wedrifid's request, probably tomorrow and certainly sometime this week.

The top half only summarizes evidence discussed elsewhere in the Normal Cryonics thread and the root post, all of which I hope will get consolidated somewhere at some point - though I'm less sure I'll be the one to do that.

I find myself wondering how common this kind of thing is in the LW corpus - people finding useful observations buried under heavily downvoted ones, presumably egregious mistakes. (I tend to think better about things by explaining them to others, and mistakes tend to draw out my most sincere attempts. But that could be just me.) LW is old enough by now that mining the comments database might yield interesting patterns.