CarlShulman comments on How Likely Is Cryonics To Work? - Less Wrong
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I agree with your first two points, particularly the first, but the third seems wrong.
In general any assumption of a constant per-period risk ensures doom, but we have uncertainty about whether such things exist, and can conceive of scenarios where the chance of destruction per period declines fast enough to give infinite expected lifespan. Any probability assigned to those scenarios gives infinite expected lifespan. Of course, by the same reasoning you have infinite expected lifespan even without signing up for cryonics.