suspensions do go wrong fairly frequently, but not anywhere close to 86% of the time!
If we have actual data on this, this should replace most of my first section. Can we get it? Though the people in a position to collect the data have a lot to lose by admitting poor numbers.
Also, some of my 86% for the first section includes things that we can’t tell yet if they worked out all right:
Not all of what makes you you is encoded in the physical state of the brain
The current cryonics process is insufficient to preserve everything
And then there are things that are not currently a problem but could become one:
Some law is passed that prohibits cryonics
You die in a hospital that refuses access to you by the cryonics people
Actual data on the fraction of the time someone signed up for cryonics is actually suspended in what we think was the correct way would be really helpful, though.
Ugh. Some of that makes for very horrifying reading. One of the ones labeled worst case scenario makes me want to track down the people who did the autopsy and punch them.
I did say ‘fairly frequently’.… Nor does long involvement necessarily save one; Mike Darwin was rather angry at Ben Best over how he botched Curtis Henderson.
If we have actual data on this, this should replace most of my first section. Can we get it? Though the people in a position to collect the data have a lot to lose by admitting poor numbers.
Also, some of my 86% for the first section includes things that we can’t tell yet if they worked out all right:
Not all of what makes you you is encoded in the physical state of the brain
The current cryonics process is insufficient to preserve everything
And then there are things that are not currently a problem but could become one:
Some law is passed that prohibits cryonics
You die in a hospital that refuses access to you by the cryonics people
Actual data on the fraction of the time someone signed up for cryonics is actually suspended in what we think was the correct way would be really helpful, though.
http://www.alcor.org/cases.html seems like a good starting point.
Ugh. Some of that makes for very horrifying reading. One of the ones labeled worst case scenario makes me want to track down the people who did the autopsy and punch them.
I did say ‘fairly frequently’.… Nor does long involvement necessarily save one; Mike Darwin was rather angry at Ben Best over how he botched Curtis Henderson.