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

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Comment author: lsparrish 12 August 2010 03:05:20AM 2 points [-]

The expected value of an act is the sum of the products (utilities x probabilities).

To offset a difference in living 100 times as much longer (even not accounting for other utilities like quality of life), it takes 100 times the probability. I don't think cryonics is 100 times less likely to work than a heart transplant.