jaibot comments on Bitcoin Cryonics Fund - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jaibot 09 April 2013 03:11:09AM *  2 points [-]

OpenWorm could use some money too: http://www.openworm.org/donate.html

Comment author: gwern 09 April 2013 04:04:19AM 7 points [-]

That's good too, but I think directly measuring the quality of cryonics as it is currently being practiced and people are being cryopreserved right now is more important than speeding up some work that will get done sooner or later.

Comment author: jaibot 10 April 2013 11:54:17AM 1 point [-]

Agreed. Although BPF has been really quiet for months now, and I'd recommend them more strongly if they posted about their current status.

Comment author: CronoDAS 09 April 2013 04:14:45AM 1 point [-]

That's interesting, but what is their model of a cell like? I assume it's not simulating protein synthesis, for example. There's an awful lot of complexity in even a single-celled organism such as an amoeba that's probably getting swept under the rug here...