For alcor atleast, the people in charge of the money are REQUIRED to be signed up for cryonics and I believe 3 of them need to have close relatives or significant others already in cryonics. This means that’s it’s in the interest of the people in charge to not screw themselves or the people they love, instead of not screwing random frozen strangers.
Of course, if I run a cemetery and I have close relatives buried in that cemetery I’m probably motivated not to plow the whole thing over to put up condos, and I’m probably motivated to ensure that my own relatives aren’t disinterred to make room for new paying customers, but that doesn’t necessarily make me equally motivated to ensure the same for people I don’t know.
(Caveat: I keep using the cemetery analogy, not because I think it’s particularly close, but because I suspect that if I raise these sorts of questions directly about cryonics I’ll get interpreted as someone who just wants to reject cryonics and is looking for reasons to do so, whereas if I raise the same questions about cemeteries the focus has a higher chance to be on the questions instead of speculations about my psychology.)
For alcor atleast, the people in charge of the money are REQUIRED to be signed up for cryonics and I believe 3 of them need to have close relatives or significant others already in cryonics. This means that’s it’s in the interest of the people in charge to not screw themselves or the people they love, instead of not screwing random frozen strangers.
(nods) I know, and I think that’s cool.
Of course, if I run a cemetery and I have close relatives buried in that cemetery I’m probably motivated not to plow the whole thing over to put up condos, and I’m probably motivated to ensure that my own relatives aren’t disinterred to make room for new paying customers, but that doesn’t necessarily make me equally motivated to ensure the same for people I don’t know.
(Caveat: I keep using the cemetery analogy, not because I think it’s particularly close, but because I suspect that if I raise these sorts of questions directly about cryonics I’ll get interpreted as someone who just wants to reject cryonics and is looking for reasons to do so, whereas if I raise the same questions about cemeteries the focus has a higher chance to be on the questions instead of speculations about my psychology.)