As I mentioned elsewhere, my biggest concern is the continuous operation of a cryoshop over the potential centuries or even millennia until the revival is attempted, as nearly no entities have ever survived that long. I have been unsuccessful in my search for an Alcor executive explicitly responsible for existential risk analysis and mitigation.
By existential risk to the company I mean an event that would result in the company failing to the degree that the stored patients are discarded, even though the outside world merrily hums along, and not an event that wipes out a large chunk of humanity.
The FAQ does not seem to answer the obvious hard questions like “what if Morgan Stanley goes under?”, “what if the US dollar collapses?”, “what other existential risks exist, and what are their probability estimates and error bars?”, “what is an estimated lifetime of Alcor until it suffers a complete failure from one of the existential risks to it coming to pass?” etc. By the way, if you think that the answer to the last question is “infinite”, I recommend a basic probability and statistics course.
In other words, the risk management appears to be at the level no better than that of a regular insurance company, which is completely inadequate for an organization whose long-term survival is the most critical issue.
As I mentioned elsewhere, my biggest concern is the continuous operation of a cryoshop over the potential centuries or even millennia until the revival is attempted, as nearly no entities have ever survived that long. I have been unsuccessful in my search for an Alcor executive explicitly responsible for existential risk analysis and mitigation.
By existential risk to the company I mean an event that would result in the company failing to the degree that the stored patients are discarded, even though the outside world merrily hums along, and not an event that wipes out a large chunk of humanity.
The FAQ does not seem to answer the obvious hard questions like “what if Morgan Stanley goes under?”, “what if the US dollar collapses?”, “what other existential risks exist, and what are their probability estimates and error bars?”, “what is an estimated lifetime of Alcor until it suffers a complete failure from one of the existential risks to it coming to pass?” etc. By the way, if you think that the answer to the last question is “infinite”, I recommend a basic probability and statistics course.
In other words, the risk management appears to be at the level no better than that of a regular insurance company, which is completely inadequate for an organization whose long-term survival is the most critical issue.