Despite the creepy symbolism I find it rather unlikely that a real superintelligence would raise the dead. If it did, though, the difference between cryonic preservation and cremation seems negligible to me. (This might sound absurd for many obvious reasons but that I'm willing to say it anyway should be evidence. After all, I probably would have thought it absurd too, and yet I now think it's totally non-absurd. Therefore there's probably a non-obvious consideration, or a set of disjunctive and non-obvious considerations, that counters the initial absurdity.) A few ice crystals is a lot less of a problem than cremation, so as a result of my cached reasoning about the implications of superintelligence I guess I'm wary of your extreme skepticism.
Does this idea of resurrection-through-inference have a commonly used name? Have you written up your thoughts on it in any more detail elsewhere, or is there something you'd recommend I read?
http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_18282009?source=most_viewed
I'd imagine the efficacy is halfway between proper cryonics and embalming and burying; the more interesting part may be the festival. Nederland is a small town 20 miles from Boulder, CO. I doubt the festival attendees are cryonics advocates, but they don't seem prone to the negative associations corpsicles often raise. Perhaps it's just because Boulder, Colorado is full of weirdos, but I wonder if there are more exploitable effects in play.