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Elo comments on Crazy Ideas Thread, Aug. 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Elo 11 August 2015 11:12:43PM 4 points [-]

Several issues;

  1. I didn't think that many organs were needed.

  2. tissue typing is difficult and rare to find a match.

  3. this would probably discourage the creation of synthetic organs that would actually solve the problem without a need for removing the organs of other people.