That's a pretty weird usage of "could have been"
This is your occasional sad reminder that long-term deaths from the novel coronavirus could have been nearly zero, if all the people who stopped breathing had been cryonically suspended immediately afterwards.
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Along with many other measures that governments could have taken at an earlier stage.
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Compared to all the other difficult problems they'd have to solve this might not even be a big deal, but is there a safe way to unfreeze people who had an infectious disease when they were frozen? Won't they still be contagious?
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I guess he's speculating with a future far far away. Otherwise, he'd have ""recommended"" freezing everyone who coughed.
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uh is there any evidence at all that neurally encoded information can be preserved even after ice crystals explode the whole thing
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cryoprotectants
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What's the rationalist calculus for spending resources maintaining and restoring an existing (but mostly dead) person-pattern, rather than using the same resources to support x > 1.0 new people? The arguments for freezing seem uncomfortably biased towards "currently live people"
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I'm curious about the direction of your comparison operator... my assumption is that X would be << (very much less than) 1.0?
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Not if you mean information death. In that case you can’t die if the information is preserved. This would be the equivalent of being on life support.
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