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gwern comments on Cryo and Social Obligations - Less Wrong Discussion

16 Post author: DataPacRat 27 January 2013 07:32AM

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Comment author: gwern 02 February 2013 04:42:46PM *  6 points [-]

Wow, you're still wrong and now you're trying to defend your indefensible made-up definitions despite my citation of the Oxford English Dictionary and calling it an 'emotional disagreement'.

So fine, I will be blunt: your scenario is ignorant and will not happen as you envision it because for ALCOR alone there is a multi-million dollar trust fund (two of them, actually) plus a 501(c)3 charity charged with taking care of existing cryonics patients, and they do not respond to market incentives like you imagine they will; they will not simply dump the bodies out of the dewars because it is nowhere in their charter or mission and cannot even remotely be construed to be in their charter or mission.

This set-up is well understood, easily discoverable in Google for anyone who bothers to look rather than pontificate on LW, and in fact historically motivated by the Chatsworth disaster where the patients were stored with a for-profit corporation based on ongoing subscription fees and then eventually abandoned. So the current arrangements are literally designed to prevent what you think would happen.

So congratulations: you've exhibited Dmytry-like levels of arrogance, failure to do any research, and digging in your heels when someone who knows a little more tells you you're wrong.