Liron comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

97 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2010 11:23PM

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Comment author: gregconen 15 March 2010 11:28:32PM *  20 points [-]

Well, along with medical research, organ donation and cryonics also probably exceed the expected utility of cannibalism or necrophilia.

That said, I'm not sure they would be mutually exclusive. My head for my future self, my innards for the sick, my penis and anus for lovers, and my arms and legs for the hungry.

Comment author: Liron 16 March 2010 03:29:10AM *  4 points [-]

Cryonics and organ donation is really a winning combination. It solves the organ donor's worry that doctors might not take long shots at saving your life if they can harvest your organs instead.

Comment author: MBlume 25 December 2010 08:03:53AM 1 point [-]

As I understand, current cryo practices use your circulatory system to get cryopreservant into your brain, and this leaves your organs useless.

Is this wrong?

Comment author: Vaniver 25 December 2010 10:47:41AM 3 points [-]

This is correct but I imagine it could be bypassed, if you severed the head and used the carotid arteries / jugular veins. I imagine that's much messier and more difficult than doing the whole body through one well-defined entry point, but may be possible.

Comment author: Liron 25 December 2010 09:54:19AM 0 points [-]

shit