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

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

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Comment author: gwern 02 May 2012 12:50:26AM 2 points [-]

If you had Catholic Church style cryonics orgs, interruptions wouldn't be so bad - you could build vast (dare I say cathedral-sized?) underground cryonics graves with excess volume & boil-off times measured in years or decades. You could analogize to libraries: books decay and need active protection and fires are risks, but can go a few years without (probably) being destroyed. The Church has succeeded in some very long-term libraries.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 02 May 2012 12:51:28AM 1 point [-]

This would work if one has enough people actually signing up for cryonics. As long as very few people are doing so, it isn't an option.