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43 Post author: gwern 09 February 2016 09:02PM

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Comment author: Error 10 February 2016 03:33:05PM 7 points [-]

I'm making the same update. If it's not using standard cryonics tech, and it's better than standard cryonics tech, presumably the usual suspects will adopt it in the not-too-distant future. As I understand it they've done that a couple of times already.

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 10 February 2016 03:48:36PM 2 points [-]

Yup, I was thinking along the same lines. In fact, I've taken action on my update, and called the Cryonics Institute to learn about getting the process started.

Comment author: entirelyuseless 10 February 2016 04:18:52PM 4 points [-]

It is possible that it is better than standard cryonics for uploading, but worse for actual physical revival. So it may depend on how much people care about each of those possibilities.

Comment author: tadrinth 10 February 2016 07:39:46PM 2 points [-]

At this point, I won't be confident that i've been successfully preserved until ultra high resolution electron micrographs of my brain are in Amazon's S3 storage, replicated across multiple regions. Any storage that doesn't have redundancy doesn't count as safe.