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gwern comments on Looking for information on cryonics - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: Metus 02 February 2012 12:33PM

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Comment author: gwern 02 February 2012 09:11:50PM 6 points [-]

You didn't say anything explicitly wrong except vitrification can't work 100% yet, ice crystals are still formed. information-theoretic "death" may not have happened but the claim that recovery may be possible in the far future is a seriously dubious

What exactly is your argument here? Why do you think vitrification doesn't work, especially given you hadn't heard of it until a few minutes ago?

Are you now shifting your argument to 'yes, vitrification works to preserve everything, but we won't be clever enough to make any use of the preservation'?