To be clear, our price for a preservation accounts for an endowment that can store people indefinitely (100x yearly costs is just an easy way of calculating that) + a revival budget. I also think we have much better options than throwing people out even in a disaster scenario, which we get into in this post.
In terms of erasing information: I agree that destroying information is theoretically impossible. In a degenerate case, even cremation doesn’t truly destroy any information. The key question is how difficult the information is to retrieve, and in many traditional cryonics cases, I think the answer is “incredibly difficult, even for superhuman AI.”
You’re obviously correct that most young healthy people don’t die in MAiD-compatible ways. We’re also planning a post on why we think preservation should be interesting to people with short AI timelines, but if nothing else, many of us have parents and grandparents whose risk profile looks different from our own. This is one reason we’ve set up our preservations to be transferable: most people IME don’t want to buy for themselves, they want to buy for someone they love.
To be clear, our price for a preservation accounts for an endowment that can store people indefinitely (100x yearly costs is just an easy way of calculating that) + a revival budget. I also think we have much better options than throwing people out even in a disaster scenario, which we get into in this post.
In terms of erasing information: I agree that destroying information is theoretically impossible. In a degenerate case, even cremation doesn’t truly destroy any information. The key question is how difficult the information is to retrieve, and in many traditional cryonics cases, I think the answer is “incredibly difficult, even for superhuman AI.”
You’re obviously correct that most young healthy people don’t die in MAiD-compatible ways. We’re also planning a post on why we think preservation should be interesting to people with short AI timelines, but if nothing else, many of us have parents and grandparents whose risk profile looks different from our own. This is one reason we’ve set up our preservations to be transferable: most people IME don’t want to buy for themselves, they want to buy for someone they love.