JoshuaZ comments on Do Earths with slower economic growth have a better chance at FAI? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 13 June 2013 01:31:23AM 2 points [-]

Cryonics requires a good singularity.

Why? This isn't obvious to me. It seems plausible that we could develop the technology to directly repair bodies without a singularity. Cryonics being used for uploading seems likely to only occur in a singularity situation, but even then it seems sufficiently far off that it isn't clear.