This needs to be a top-level post. Even with minimal editing. Please.
(ETA: It’s not so much that we need to have another go at the cryonics debate; but the above is an argument that I can’t recall seeing discussed here previously, that does substantially change the picture, and that illustrates various kinds of reasoning—about scaling properties, about predefining thresholds of acceptability, and about what we don’t know we don’t know—that are very relevant to LW’s overall mission.)
This needs to be a top-level post. Even with minimal editing. Please.
(ETA: It’s not so much that we need to have another go at the cryonics debate; but the above is an argument that I can’t recall seeing discussed here previously, that does substantially change the picture, and that illustrates various kinds of reasoning—about scaling properties, about predefining thresholds of acceptability, and about what we don’t know we don’t know—that are very relevant to LW’s overall mission.)
Done.