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MileyCyrus comments on [LINK] Cryonics - without even trying - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: Kawoomba 17 August 2012 08:41AM

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Comment author: MileyCyrus 17 August 2012 09:50:03PM -1 points [-]

From a technical standpoint, how hard is it to learn cryogenics? Is it the sort of thing you'd have to attend a few years of school for? Or could you it be a DIY job, if you had enough money?

Comment author: handoflixue 22 August 2012 11:41:03PM 1 point [-]

Alcor keeps a list of cases on their website. I've only read the ones linked to me as "horror stories", but it seemed blatantly obvious that it's a DIY job being done by people with minimal familiarity with the technical and managerial aspects involved. It's entirely possible that perspective is biased by the specific ones I read, but it's definitely not anything that (currently) requires a degree, and my perspective was that you could probably get trained up to Alcor's "state of the art" in a few weeks plus participating in a couple of actual preservations for practice.