Downvote accepted, I do miss that feedback mechanism (when it worked, not when it got abused). My comment was perhaps over-brief.
I stand by my assertion that any definition of “successful” for cryonics must include actual revivals or measurable progress toward such. Nobody would ever wonder why chemotherapy isn’t more successful because many cancer patients choose not to try it.
It now occurs to me that OP may have intentionally distinguished “cryonics movement” from “cryonics” in terms of success metrics, in which case I’m still concerned, but have expressed the wrong dimension of concern.
Yes, I believe we have wandered off he OP’s original topic.
But for what it’s with I think you are comparing apples to oranges. All cryonics cases that have not experienced early failure due to organizational or engineering flaws are still ongoIng. Only about 2% have failed. The other 98% remains to be seen. It is absolutely the case that modern cryonics organizations like Alcor have made tremendous progress in increasing the probably of success, mostly through organizational and funding changes, but also improvements to the suspension process as well.
Downvote accepted, I do miss that feedback mechanism (when it worked, not when it got abused). My comment was perhaps over-brief.
I stand by my assertion that any definition of “successful” for cryonics must include actual revivals or measurable progress toward such. Nobody would ever wonder why chemotherapy isn’t more successful because many cancer patients choose not to try it.
It now occurs to me that OP may have intentionally distinguished “cryonics movement” from “cryonics” in terms of success metrics, in which case I’m still concerned, but have expressed the wrong dimension of concern.
Yes, I believe we have wandered off he OP’s original topic.
But for what it’s with I think you are comparing apples to oranges. All cryonics cases that have not experienced early failure due to organizational or engineering flaws are still ongoIng. Only about 2% have failed. The other 98% remains to be seen. It is absolutely the case that modern cryonics organizations like Alcor have made tremendous progress in increasing the probably of success, mostly through organizational and funding changes, but also improvements to the suspension process as well.