lsparrish comments on Looking for opinions of people like Nick Bostrom or Anders Sandberg on current cryo techniques - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lsparrish 14 January 2014 01:33:09AM 2 points [-]

If you're worried about the effects of cracking, you can pay for ITS. LN2 is only used because it is cheap and relatively low-tech to maintain.

If you ask me it's a silly concern if we're assuming nanorepair or uploading. Cracking is just a surface discontinuity, and it forms at a point in time where the tissue is already in a glassy state where there can't be much mixing of molecules. The microcracks that form in frozen tissue is a much greater concern (but not the only concern with freezing). The fact that vitrified tissue forms large, loud cracks is related to the fact that it does such a good job holding things in place.

Comment author: MathieuRoy 17 January 2014 03:53:31AM *  1 point [-]

What's "ITS"? (Google 'only' hits for "it's") How much more expensive is it? Is it offer by Alcor and CI?

Comment author: lsparrish 17 January 2014 06:50:38PM 2 points [-]
Comment author: MathieuRoy 21 January 2014 12:38:57AM 0 points [-]

Oh ok. Thank you.