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Khoth comments on Suspended Animation Inc. accused of incompetence - Less Wrong Discussion

38 Post author: CronoDAS 18 November 2010 12:20AM

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Comment author: Khoth 18 November 2010 05:28:01PM 2 points [-]

Competence is pretty hard to come by in any industry. There's no reason to expect cryonics to be different, especially when you can't really tell from the outside which companies are competent until it becomes time to revive people.

Comment author: lsparrish 19 November 2010 04:45:50PM 2 points [-]

It seems to me there should be some less direct way to measure competence of personnel besides the patient being revived with intact memories. I believe this kind of feedback mechanism was the original goal of case reports. Perhaps having everyone wear video glasses and audio recorders would be ideal. The more detail of what actually goes on is available for review (not necessarily to the public for patient privacy reasons, but perhaps to independent experts) the less likely mistakes will be repeated.