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Comment author: advancedatheist 04 August 2015 02:41:49PM *  3 points [-]

The lottery model doesn't apply to cryonics because the individual cryonicist's choices in the here and now bear on the probability of success. Cryonicist Thomas Donaldson, Ph.D. in mathematics, wrote about this back in the 1980's.

http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/probability.html