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shminux comments on Neil deGrasse Tyson on Cryonics - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: shminux 09 May 2012 04:49:09PM 6 points [-]

Note that cryonics is pretty incidental to rationality. If anything, having people live forever is likely to slow down the progress due to increased odds of gerontocracy, and thus be detrimental to the survival of the human species. EY reflects on this in his "3 worlds collide" story.