MixedNuts comments on More Cryonics Probability Estimates - Less Wrong

20 Post author: jkaufman 17 December 2012 08:59PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 December 2012 04:35:15AM 11 points [-]

What wedifrid said. Everything the guy says is about functional damage. Talking about the impossibility of repairing proteins in-place even more says that this is somebody thinking about functional damage. Throwing in talk about "information destruction" but not saying anything about many-to-one mappings just tells me that this is somebody who confuses retrievable function with distinguishable states. The person very clearly did not get what the point was, and this being the case, I see no reason to try and read his judgments as being judgments about the point.

Comment author: MixedNuts 24 December 2012 02:09:03PM 1 point [-]

Heavy functional damage still rules out some possible revival methods, so reduces probability of success.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 December 2012 08:17:05PM 6 points [-]

"Warm 'em up and see if they spring back to life" was a possible revival method that cryonicists already didn't believe in, so pointing out its impossibility should not affect probability estimates relative to what cryonicists have already taken into account.