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Baughn comments on PSA: Very important policy change at Cryonics Institute - Less Wrong Discussion

19 Post author: Coscott 03 October 2013 05:47AM

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Comment author: Baughn 03 October 2013 10:45:57AM *  1 point [-]

Quite. We don't know, so what are the chances?

They don't need to be very high for cryonics to be an improvement on, y'know, definitely dying.

Comment author: V_V 03 October 2013 04:10:00PM 1 point [-]

Cryonics is quite expensive. Success chance has to be non-negligible in order for cyronics to be worth the price.

Comment author: Baughn 03 October 2013 08:20:14PM 1 point [-]

Depends. What else are you going to spend your money on?

Comment author: V_V 04 October 2013 10:13:52AM 3 points [-]

Anything else you like. You can even give it to others while you are alive or after you die.