Fluttershy comments on Immortality: A Practical Guide - Less Wrong

34 Post author: G0W51 26 January 2015 04:17PM

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Comment author: Fluttershy 26 January 2015 09:17:35PM 7 points [-]

Compared to other health interventions, taking precautions to avoid falling might be relatively more important to cryonicists than to the general population, given that reducing the risk of head trauma due to falling is one of the easiest things one can do to reduce one's risk of developing Alzheimer's.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 26 January 2015 09:58:33PM 3 points [-]

That's a good point. It is also worth noting that fatal falls in homes are one of the situations where cryonics is less likely to get a chance (in general, accidents that do brain damage or accidents that lead to a long delay between clocking out and preservation are more likely to result in a functionally irreversible loss of information).