gwern comments on Martinenaite and Tavenier on cryonics - Less Wrong Discussion
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The sections on the science seem pretty good, although they seem to focus too much on some basic and only tangential things where I would personally focus a lot more on cryobiology and what existing species with nervous systems can survive freezing (eg. nematodes).
Section 7, Discussion, is just terrible, though.
This makes zero sense to me. This is either wrong, a risible misunderstanding of free markets, or ignoring the issue of actual harms and losses.
And this would be a bad thing, why? (Also, reasoning from fictional evidence.)
He makes no such thing! This is a tissue of problems, from false choices to fallacy of composition/division.
Oy gevalt. You don't have any such guarantee right now.
Meant by whom? Obviously we aren't adapted, that's what the whole cryopreservatives thing is about! An animal as big as a human, in the evolutionary context, doesn't need to tolerate freezing.
Section 7 also entirely ignores neuropreservation and uploading (which go hand in hand, of course); page 48 is their master list, and most of the points don't apply to neuropreservation (despite their earlier including prices for it) or uploading, or are not particularly relevant (we don't need 100% thaw success rate).