CarlShulman comments on Cryonics Questions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CarlShulman 27 August 2010 06:11:14AM *  8 points [-]

Economies of scale mean that increasing numbers of cryonics users lower costs and improve revival chances. I would class this with disease activism, e.g. patients (and families of patients) with a particular cancer collectively organizing to fund and assist research into their disease. It's not a radically impartial altruist motivation, but it is a moral response to a coordination/collective action problem.

Comment author: Perplexed 27 August 2010 12:37:53PM 2 points [-]

Yes, that makes sense. Though that kind of thinking does not motivate me to go door-to-door every Saturday trying to convince my neighbors to buy more science books.