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lukeprog comments on Recreational Cryonics - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: topynate 15 January 2014 08:21PM

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Comment author: lukeprog 15 January 2014 09:26:54PM 8 points [-]

fairly novel contribution

Eh? People have been discussing this point for at least a decade, and I previously gave it as the main reason I'm not signed up for cryonics.

Comment author: topynate 15 January 2014 10:14:22PM 1 point [-]

Then perhaps my assessment was mistaken! But in any case, I wasn't referring to the broad idea of cryonics patients ending up in deathcubes, but of their becoming open-access in an exploitative society - c.f. the Egan short.