lsparrish comments on The cost of universal cryonics - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: [deleted] 26 May 2011 02:35:16PM 0 points [-]

Is storage really as easy as that? It seems like investing money with no risk or work involved can't beat inflation in the long run, and therefore you'd need to keep spending money over time. I might be misunderstanding how inflation works, though.

Comment author: lsparrish 26 May 2011 04:28:24PM 2 points [-]

I believe the strategy for eliminating risk from the equation in the long term is to diversify, so one investment failing does not cause the entire pool to be lost. Overall a diversified fund that invests in real capital should generate real compound interest over the rate of inflation.