Dr._Commonsense comments on Investing for the Long Slump - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dr._Commonsense 25 January 2009 09:38:13PM 2 points [-]

Deliberately worsening an economic slump carries with it the moral burden of possibly slowing down technological advances that would otherwise save the lives of millions of people currently doomed to die of old age.

Also, a sufficiently bad economic slump will diminish hope of successful cryopreservation for those still alive and permanently eliminate hope of revival for those already cryosuspended by causing either cryonics facilities or their suppliers to go out of business.