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I feel that article could have condensed the same ideas in 5% of the length. Basically it all comes down to an expected value calculation in a situation where a

by lz400 9y ago

I feel that article could have condensed the same ideas in 5% of the length. Basically it all comes down to an expected value calculation in a situation where almost everything is unknown. What surprises me is that Alcor doesn't have more clients. 200K (80K for a head) is not a lot of money relatively speaking. Any senior engineer in a tech company could afford to put apart 80K in a trust fund for this and sign up. And you'd expect most engineers think the same way as the article: cheap for a potentially infinite payoff. But afaik they only have a few clients.

tim333 9y ago
Indeed, the Cryonics Institute is the value for money option at ~ $30k, have been freezing for 40 years and have 153 frozen/vitrified humans, plus some pets. So only like four a year. (http://www.cryonics.org/ci-landing/member-statistics/ http://www.cryonics.org/ci-landing/member-statistics/). I offered to have my gran done as I liked her and 30k wasn't a big deal at the time but she said no way. I guess most people aren't that in to the idea. Maybe they're thinking a reanimated corpse having a rough time whereas I think a more virtual upload to a sort of digital heaven might be jollier. But with the ability to do stuff like compose like Beethoven rather than just hanging out on clouds. I wonder how things will actually pan out.