DataPacRat comments on Cryonic resurrection - an ethical hypothetical - Less Wrong

10 Post author: ialdabaoth 25 November 2012 12:44AM

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Comment author: DataPacRat 25 November 2012 06:09:58PM 6 points [-]

... presumably at some point after lab-mice, lab-rats, lab-dogs, and lab-chimps have all been able to be revived fully successfully, as far as can be determined?

Comment author: RomeoStevens 25 November 2012 11:02:57PM 2 points [-]

Yes, that was assumed.

Comment author: ialdabaoth 25 November 2012 11:26:48PM 5 points [-]

That's an explicit assumption of the hypothetical - "The technology will not progress in refinement without practice, and practice requires actually restoring cryogenically frozen human brains." Suppose that the process requires a lot of recalibration between species, and tends to fail more for brains with more convolutions and synaptic density.