Gwern—Alcor is not “run at an annual loss of hundreds of thousands”. I can’t imagine where you heard this.
It seems to me like you were clearly implying that at least part of his claim was not true when the claim was stated quite clearly.
Otherwise your judgement whether the shortfall is an issue was conveyed clearly and I haven’t said anything about that. I don’t disagree with you on that and to be fair I haven’t really noticed why you think that gwern is implying that it is an issue. Seems to me like he is explaining to someone who thinks that cryonics should be ‘charitable’ that Alcor is in fact a charity.
I am agreeing with that claim. Maybe what I’m really disagreeing with is the implication that the shortfall is some kind of issue?
Certainly didn’t seem that way when you said:
It seems to me like you were clearly implying that at least part of his claim was not true when the claim was stated quite clearly.
Otherwise your judgement whether the shortfall is an issue was conveyed clearly and I haven’t said anything about that. I don’t disagree with you on that and to be fair I haven’t really noticed why you think that gwern is implying that it is an issue. Seems to me like he is explaining to someone who thinks that cryonics should be ‘charitable’ that Alcor is in fact a charity.