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lsparrish comments on Cryonics as Charity - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: lsparrish 10 November 2012 10:17:45PM 3 points [-]

More people adopting (or wanting to adopt) cryonics should increase the investment in research, which increases the chance (and most likely the certainty level) of it working. Also consider that higher tech methods may be more expensive to implement. Storage costs would certainly drop, but if it turns out you need ten times the equipment to do ten times the damage reduction it may not drop the cost overall, but still end up with higher utility.