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I don't think that's what prevents cryonics.
For the vast majority of people, cryonics is weird. It's not something they would do, for the same reason that prevents them from moving to Australia, even if they agreed it would be far better for them and they had no strong communal ties.
This explains how, even after LWers are convinced that cryonics is the rational thing to do, there's still a strong alief against doing so.
I don't disagree; I /think/ that it's possible that the idea I'm trying to explain here may be a strong factor explaining why people /do/ think that. Eg, "what sort of person would be willing to even try jumping into a future society with no family, no friends, no community? What a weirdo".
I'm making a different point here. I'm saying that most people who dismiss it do so based on an immediate gut reaction of, "Cryonics? That's strange and something from science fiction."
Fair enough.