Vladimir_Nesov comments on Open Thread: July 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 08 July 2010 03:25:53PM *  4 points [-]

A factual error:

when he first announced his intention to have his brain surgically removed from his freshly vacated cadaver and preserved in liquid nitrogen

I'm fairly sure that head-only preservation doesn't involve any brain-removal. It's interesting that in context the purpose of the phrase was to present a creepy image of cryonics, and so the bias towards the phrases that accomplish this goal won over the constraint of not generating fiction.