Objective and framing: I want to decrease my probability of information-theoretic death, p(ITD), by optimizing my cryonic preservation arrangements (I’m treating ITD as a binary thing for simplicity). I’m going to talk about p(ITD) as if it’s the most efficient probability that could be assigned given our civilization’s current knowledge and understanding (e.g. by a thickly traded prediction market that resolves soon to an oracle’s answer to the question), rather than my current subjective probability, so that I can ask questions of the form “how does X affect p(ITD)?”.
I’m particularly interested in the effects of warm/cold ischemia on p(ITD), which have implications for standby arrangements and what to do in the case of an unexpected death:
How does p(ITD) drop off with warm and cold ischemic time?
For unexpected deaths, are there any advance arrangements that can be made to substantially decrease p(ITD)? (e.g. by reducing warm ischemic time with an ice bath)
For expected deaths, does local standby have significantly lower p(ITD) than remote standby + transport? (e.g. due to reduced cold ischemic time)
I’m also interested in any other considerations that significantly affect p(ITD), if any come to mind.
[Question] Cryonics considerations: how big of a problem is ischemia?
Objective and framing: I want to decrease my probability of information-theoretic death, p(ITD), by optimizing my cryonic preservation arrangements (I’m treating ITD as a binary thing for simplicity). I’m going to talk about p(ITD) as if it’s the most efficient probability that could be assigned given our civilization’s current knowledge and understanding (e.g. by a thickly traded prediction market that resolves soon to an oracle’s answer to the question), rather than my current subjective probability, so that I can ask questions of the form “how does X affect p(ITD)?”.
I’m particularly interested in the effects of warm/cold ischemia on p(ITD), which have implications for standby arrangements and what to do in the case of an unexpected death:
How does p(ITD) drop off with warm and cold ischemic time?
For unexpected deaths, are there any advance arrangements that can be made to substantially decrease p(ITD)? (e.g. by reducing warm ischemic time with an ice bath)
For expected deaths, does local standby have significantly lower p(ITD) than remote standby + transport? (e.g. due to reduced cold ischemic time)
I’m also interested in any other considerations that significantly affect p(ITD), if any come to mind.