Lawliet comments on Survey Results - Less Wrong

48 Post author: Yvain 12 May 2009 10:09PM

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Comment author: timtyler 12 May 2009 10:41:07PM 3 points [-]

Re: Probability of an average person cryonically frozen today being successfully revived: 22.3, 10, 26.2.

An enormous estimate, IMO - close to that given by the salesmen(!):

http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/WillCryonicsWork.html

Comment author: Lawliet 13 May 2009 12:21:04AM 2 points [-]

It's probably not mentioned enough that cryonics can be justified even if it looks like it probably wont work, as long as it's past some threshold.