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army1987 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: [deleted] 04 October 2013 03:50:06AM 1 point [-]

You can look up actuarial tables to get a sense of it; it's probably smaller than 1000.

For total deaths, sure; for cryopreservable deaths, I have my doubts.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 04 October 2013 05:23:31AM 0 points [-]

Fair enough.
I just have trouble believing that it's a factor that's actually large enough to affect the EV calculations people are actually doing, to the extent that people do EV calculations before signing up for cryonics at all.