I'm wondering why this is stated as a conjunction. Would a single failure here really result in an early AGI development?
If I go in the garage and observe that the floor is wet, I would update in the direction of
it rained last night; and
Frank left the garage door open again; and
the tools the boys negligently left outside in the grass all night got rusty.
But that of course does not mean that if the tools had not gotten rusty, the garage floor would not have gotten wet.
In other words, Eliezer was writing about statistical relationships, and you seem to have mistaken them for causal relationships.
Kim Suozzi was a neuroscience student with brain cancer who wanted to be cryonically preserved but lacked the funds. She appealed to reddit and a foundation was set up, called the Society for Venturism. Enough money was raised, and when she died on the January 17th, she was preserved by Alcor.
I wasn't sure if I should post about this, but I was glad to see that enough money was raised and it was discussed on LessWrong here, here, and here.
Source
Edit: It looks like Alcor actually worked with her to lower the costs, and waived some of the fees.
Edit 2: The Society for Venturism has been around for a while, and wasn't set up just for her.