I cannot think of any reference class in which cryonics does well. … I invite you to try in comments
Okay: “Technologies whose success is predicated only on a) the recoverability of biological information from a pseudo-frozen state, and b) the indistinguishability of fundamental particles.”
b) is well-established by repeated experiments, and a) is a combination of proven technologies.
“Recoverability” in the cryonics sense requires not just retrieving the information, but retrieving it in enough detail to permit functional use of the data to resume (I’m counting uploads in functional use). I wouldn’t put MRIs in that class. What might fit is a combination of DNA synthesis (to restore function) and cryoelectron imaging (though I’m not sure if that has been refined enough to read base sequences...).
Okay: “Technologies whose success is predicated only on a) the recoverability of biological information from a pseudo-frozen state, and b) the indistinguishability of fundamental particles.”
b) is well-established by repeated experiments, and a) is a combination of proven technologies.
And what else successful or not is in this class?
MRIs.
“Recoverability” in the cryonics sense requires not just retrieving the information, but retrieving it in enough detail to permit functional use of the data to resume (I’m counting uploads in functional use). I wouldn’t put MRIs in that class. What might fit is a combination of DNA synthesis (to restore function) and cryoelectron imaging (though I’m not sure if that has been refined enough to read base sequences...).