lsparrish comments on Against Cryonics & For Cost-Effective Charity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lsparrish 10 August 2010 03:21:29PM 6 points [-]

I disagree as more people signing up for cryonics makes cryonics more affordable (and thus evens out the unfairness of premature death) and also gives large numbers of people a vested interest in the future. Cryonics on a small scale has unfavorable features that it would lack on a larger scale, so you need to be careful not to conflate the two. Note that as far as PR for existential risk goes, you can't beat cryonics for giving people a legitimate self-interested reason to care.