Robert Ettinger, founder of cryonics, now CIs 106th patient

7 Post author: ciphergoth 25 July 2011 12:11PM

Comments (13)

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 27 July 2011 01:14:13AM 5 points [-]

I'm glad to hear the suspension went smoothly. I hope to congratulate Robert in person someday.

Comment author: Hyena 28 July 2011 04:17:07AM 4 points [-]

1918 - ?

Comment author: Clippy 25 July 2011 05:18:35PM 4 points [-]

There exist only 106 Cryonics Institute patients???

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 25 July 2011 08:56:42PM 3 points [-]

At first I was surprised, but if it's the number frozen rather than the number signed up, it doesn't seem wildly off.

Comment author: ciphergoth 25 July 2011 10:49:45PM 8 points [-]

Alcor have about the same number, KrioRus 15, so about 227 total worldwide. About two thousand people are signed up.

Comment author: Clippy 26 July 2011 03:04:47PM 3 points [-]

There exist only two thousand people worldwide who have signed up for cryonics?

Comment author: ciphergoth 27 July 2011 09:54:07AM 6 points [-]

There are other services, but I think they all only have a handful of members between them, bringing the total up to less than two thousand.

"That's a high upper bound on the number of people on Earth who can reliably reach the right conclusion on massively overdetermined issues"

Comment author: Clippy 02 August 2011 03:09:54PM 1 point [-]

That's stupid. I'd sign up for cryonics, if my identity could only be instantiated in biological hardware now.

Comment author: MartinB 27 July 2011 05:47:25PM 0 points [-]

Yes. My own estimate was off my a magnitude of 2 as well. It is really that low!

Comment author: lsparrish 25 July 2011 04:26:01PM 3 points [-]

Glad to hear he went into stasis under good conditions. This probably increases the chance that he can be repaired with nanotech/biotech rather than being scanned to a digital substrate. (He always hated the idea of being uploaded.) Congratulations on a good start to your trip through time, Robert.

Comment author: ciphergoth 25 July 2011 10:37:12PM 21 points [-]

If he gets reanimated, he will deserve to feel extremely smug.

Comment author: nazgulnarsil 28 July 2011 09:15:25AM 3 points [-]

hoped for first words: "HA! Suckers!"

Comment author: ciphergoth 28 July 2011 10:23:09AM *  2 points [-]

I was sorry not to hear that his "last words" were "well, fingers crossed!"