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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
That's because cryonics salesmen are generally amateur rationalists who are actually trying to believe rationally and report their beliefs honestly.
I am more inclined to believe that they are a self-selected group - drawn from the section of the population with the most optimistic estimates of whether cryonics will work. Usually, "most optimistic" != "most realistic".
No contradiction between the two posts above. The second is, nonetheless, probably more useful in judging accuracy.