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C-f "Cryonics" 0 hits.

Guess this person isn't really preparing then.

I feel like cryonics is a techbro meme that is a whole lot of money for basically very questionable and unproven benefit, and just because they choose not to opt for it doesn't mean they're "aren't really preparing" in the way that you personally think people should prepare for death.

Not so much the way that "I think" people should prepare. Just the way I would expect a person who knows how the brain works to act. But then they finish off the thing like this:

> as I prepare for death, I have a renewed respect for the persistent and broad appeal of afterlife/reincarnation stories

Aaand I guess that's just another poor person with the pro-death memecomplex.

You can believe improbable tales that your frozen popsicle-brain is going to survive intact enough to where unlikely regenerative technologies exist and then they still think it's worthwhile to "restore" you. I mean, it's slightly more probable than tales of sky-fairies reincarnating you, but still effectively no chance.

If you want to make ripples in the future world, there's far better ways to gamble your resources than this...

In any case: you can ditch the explicit judgment of those who don't share the views as you, and you'll more likely get heard and get reasonable responses.

'Backups' ain't backups if you don't have a reliable 'Restore' process.

I mean we could use the untested backup system or we could backup to /dev/null. Also we ship tomorrow. Your call boss!

It has been tested. So far all the tests have failed.

Let me know when they can cryonically freeze a live mouse, then reanimate it a month later. If the process works at all then that should be easy, right?

Untested backups are better than no backups at all.

Realistically, I would rather I at least have some chance of success, however small, than none whatsoever.

Ah, this is a reminder that I need to finish my application to Alcor.

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