[ExI] chemo-preservation and fund raising

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Max More <max at maxmore.com> wrote:.
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> Considering that there are at least 7 liquid nitrogen vendors in the
> Scottsdale/Phoenix area, it would take far more than "economic turmoil" to
> terminate all deliveries of LN2. It would take at least WWIII. In the
> meantime, we already know that we could go out and acquire a small liquid
> nitrogen plant and make our own. (We have a powerful backup generator,
> which I had installed this year, that could power it.) That would cost
> about twice as much, which is why we haven't already bought one.
>

### The Black Swan problem is a correlated failure of multiple structures.
The sub-prime meltdown is a prime example - the Black-Scholes model gave
reassurance but it didn't consider correlated movements of multiple assets.
If the dollar stops being the reserve currency, there might be a
significant increase in interest rates, and this could simultaneously shut
down all LN2 vendors, gas stations, and groceries, for many months. Maybe
the ravenous crowds would not break the dewars to get at the protein
there... but they could do it just because breaking and burning is what
crowds do.

Plastic-hard brains at RT could enjoy security by obscurity, dispersed in
many basements. Cryonics means centralized storage, a fat target for
fanatics, and vandals.

Well, I am signed up at Alcor, and I urge all rational people to do the
same. Chemopreservation is not a mature technology yet, it doesn't offer
the same quality as cryonics. You could notice your lymph nodes swelling
with metastases any day, so it's best to sign up before you become
uninsurable. Waiting for chemopreservation to be perfected is a gamble that
many could lose. Still, a nagging anxiety remains whenever I think about
the dewars.

Rafal
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