drethelin comments on You Only Live Twice - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 18 November 2010 09:17:54PM 8 points [-]

So, OK, I'll bite: can anyone point me at a reasonable legal/economic analysis of why I should trust an existing corporation (and its various descendants) to continue preserving my frozen brain for long enough to be revived?

Despite the context, I don't mean this to exclusively apply to cryonics... I have the same question about why I should expect a cemetery not to dump my body somewhere and re-sell my plot to someone else once N years pass without anyone visiting my grave, as I do about why I should expect a cryonics corporation not to dump my skull and re-sell the storage space.

Comment author: drethelin 21 March 2011 07:19:30PM 22 points [-]

The board managing Alcor's trust fund is deliberately made up of people who have relatives or significant others in cryo preservation. It's structured so that the people in charge have incentives exactly against doing this.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 21 March 2011 07:20:35PM 4 points [-]

That's pretty cool. Thanks.