gwern comments on Survey of older folks as data about one's future values and preferences? - Less Wrong
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Mike Darwin, FWIW, disagrees strongly. You might be able to get economies of scale for the storage part, but that was never a significant chunk of the cost. And formalizing procedures do not necessarily drive net prices down, as the massive decades-long increases in medical costs in the US and worldwide show...
I realize that there are links for this everywhere in various cryonics discussions, but this seems like a post ripe for having a link or a quote in it.
I upvoted anyway since I'm sure it would be easy for me to find such a link too.
...Actually, why don't I go ahead and do that.
...Because searching less wrong gives me long articles whose references I would need to comb and googling "mike darwin increasing cost cryonics" doesn't give me anything insightful without some more in depth searches which someone (in fact almost certain gwern) has already done and could do more easily than I.
Not from searching, just from reading Chronopause mostly. I'm not sure there's any one place for it - doing a site search for 'economies of scale' turns up http://chronopause.com/index.php/2011/02/26/response-to-maxim%E2%80%99s-rant-about-automation-in-cardiopulmonary-bypass/
Which seems shorter and more informal than I remember his assessment being.