[extropy-chat] WSJ: A Cold Calculus Leads Cryonauts To Put Assets on Ice

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky sentience at pobox.com
Tue Jan 24 23:18:06 UTC 2006


MB wrote:
> 
> This is exactly my take on it too. I fail to see why people think it is
> "out of circulation" - geez, it's not like he going to take the actual
> money and had have it frozen with him!

And if he did have the money frozen with him as cash, it would reduce 
the amount of money in circulation.  Other paper bills would become more 
valuable.

Only having actual goods frozen with you would damage the economy in any 
obvious way.  As for nonobvious ways... not my specialty.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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