Open thread for December 24-31, 2013

NancyLebovitz

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All the people currently signed up for cryonics but not dead.

Alcor at least also requires boardmembers to have loved ones currently in suspension so there's another incentive.

Let's suppose it's 50 years in the future and you're signed up for cryonics with, say, Alcor. How confident are you that you'd know if Alcor had quietly disposed of some of their patients from 50 years ago?

If your answer, like mine, is "not very", then how strong an incentive do you think the fear of lawsuits from other signed-up people is, against any temptation to dispose of old patients to increase their profits?

(I am not suggesting that they do, or should do, that. Only that that particular incentive probably doesn't change their behaviour much.)

11Lumifer13y

An interesting question -- when are cryopreserved people supposed to be revived? Obviously when it becomes possible, but are there any other criteria? Let's say we learned how to unfreeze people but there's no effective immortality in sight (through uploading or biohacking or anything else) -- should they be revived at this point? That question is relevant here because at the point where effective immortality is possible no one has any reason to sign up for cryonics. Everyone has already uploaded/ascended/whatever, so why would they revive a bunch of frozen primitives?

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Open thread for December 24-31, 2013

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Open thread for December 24-31, 2013

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