Craig_Heldreth comments on On the unpopularity of cryonics: life sucks, but at least then you die - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Craig_Heldreth 31 July 2011 04:03:23PM 3 points [-]

& then I found this on Darwin's site:

google ngram research on cryonics

Specifically he has a graph of "cryonics" (the word) citations in all periodicals scanned by google up to February 2011 versus time and it appears the most talked about item in the history of cryonics, ever, may well be Ted Williams's frozen head. He has a photograph of Williams in his article.

(& also I had never heard of this google ngram thing before and it looks remarkable.)

Comment author: gwern 31 July 2011 07:25:02PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, N-gram can give some interesting insights. I used it for anime the other week.