ciphergoth comments on The cost of universal cryonics - Less Wrong

37 Post author: handoflixue 26 May 2011 02:33AM

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Comment author: Larifari 26 May 2011 10:01:04AM 2 points [-]

Going from 100 to 150,000 is not 17 doublings, but log(150000/100)/log(2), about 10.5

Comment author: ciphergoth 26 May 2011 04:18:21PM 2 points [-]

Why is that the figure used? 150,000 is the number of people who die every day - how is that relevant to the calculations in this article?