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The scientist's open letter on cryonics, signed by people such as Gregory Stock, Stanley Shostak, Ralph Merkle, Eric Drexler, Aubrey de Grey, Gregory Benford, a

The scientist's open letter on cryonics, signed by people such as Gregory Stock, Stanley Shostak, Ralph Merkle, Eric Drexler, Aubrey de Grey, Gregory Benford, and a range of researchers in the life sciences you're probably less familiar with, but who are household names in their fields. http://evidencebasedcryonics.org/scientists-open-letter-on-cryonics/ http://evidencebasedcryonics.org/scientists-open-letter-on-c... A layman's introduction to cryonics: http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2001/11/cryonics.php http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2001/11/cryonics.php Lots of deeper technical details can be found at Alcor (which maintains a better web presence than the Cryonics Institute): http://www.alcor.org/sciencefaq.htm http://www.alcor.org/sciencefaq.htm The basic process is pretty similar between all modern cryonics organizations. Important to note is that freezing is out, vitrification is in. That makes a large difference to cellular structural integrity. See: http://www.benbest.com/cryonics/vitrify.html http://www.benbest.com/cryonics/vitrify.html

barry-cotter 15y ago
I was kind of horrified how bad the arguments against cryonics are[0]. As far as I can tell noone has ever gone to the trouble to seriously and in good faith argue against it, they just apply the absurdity heuristic and say its advocates are freaks/frauds etc. (And yet I have not made my contract of immortality with the cult of the severed head.) [0]lesswrong.com/lw/1r0/a_survey_of_anticryonics_writing/
- ciphergoth 15y ago
  What stops you signing up? If it's "cryocrastination", read this: "I know more people who are planning to sign up for cryonics Real Soon Now than people who have actually signed up. I expect that more people have died while cryocrastinating than have actually been cryopreserved. If you've already decided this is a good idea, but you "haven't gotten around to it", sign up for cryonics NOW. I mean RIGHT NOW." - http://lesswrong.com/lw/wq/you_only_live_twice/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/wq/you_only_live_twice/

barry-cotter 15y ago

I was kind of horrified how bad the arguments against cryonics are[0]. As far as I can tell noone has ever gone to the trouble to seriously and in good faith argue against it, they just apply the absurdity heuristic and say its advocates are freaks/frauds etc. (And yet I have not made my contract of immortality with the cult of the severed head.) [0]lesswrong.com/lw/1r0/a_survey_of_anticryonics_writing/

ciphergoth 15y ago
What stops you signing up? If it's "cryocrastination", read this: "I know more people who are planning to sign up for cryonics Real Soon Now than people who have actually signed up. I expect that more people have died while cryocrastinating than have actually been cryopreserved. If you've already decided this is a good idea, but you "haven't gotten around to it", sign up for cryonics NOW. I mean RIGHT NOW." - http://lesswrong.com/lw/wq/you_only_live_twice/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/wq/you_only_live_twice/