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

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Comment author: James_Miller 10 August 2010 06:29:16PM 2 points [-]

"Do you really think that cryonics advocacy is comparable in efficacy to the most efficient ways of working against existential risk?"

No, but I do think spending money on cryonics probably increases expenditures on existential risk. Cryonics and existential risk spending are complements not substitutes.

Also, your not first best argument against cryonics also applies to over 99.999% of human expenditures and labors.