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shminux comments on Alcor vs. Cryonics Institute - Less Wrong Discussion

27 Post author: prespectiveCryonaut 09 April 2012 01:49AM

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Comment author: shminux 09 April 2012 02:27:50AM 3 points [-]

To quote Peter Lynch, "I want to buy a company any fool can run, because eventually one will". Making a company fool-proof is essential when the main purpose of the company is to survive several hundred years (maybe even thousands), an exceedingly rare occurrence. None of the current cryo shops seem anywhere close to having the necessary structure in place.

Comment author: ciphergoth 09 April 2012 03:42:32AM 10 points [-]

The post asks a very specific question, which your comment does not help answer.

Comment author: shminux 09 April 2012 06:58:19AM -1 points [-]

"neither" is a valid answer...

Comment author: ciphergoth 09 April 2012 08:37:17AM *  9 points [-]

Every time I posted about cryonics on my journal, I had to put in an addendum to say "WARNING: COMMENTS NOT ABOUT THE SPECIFIC SUBJECT OF THIS POST WILL BE DELETED", otherwise I ended up having all the usual arguments about cryonics in every post I made about it. This post is not here to have all those arguments again, or even the specific argument about whether a good enough firm to sign up with exists. This post is for someone who has decided to sign up to discuss which of two EXISTING firms to sign up with.

Comment author: wedrifid 09 April 2012 09:17:23AM 1 point [-]

"neither" is a valid answer...

Make a new post or resurrect an old one if you want to wish to discuss a different topic to the one in the post.