let’s count the people with neuroscience expertise, other than people whose careers are in hawking cryonics
This is a little unfair: if you have neuroscience experience and think cryonics is very important, then going to work for Alcor or CI may be where you can have the most impact. At which point others note that you’re financially dependent on people signing up for cryonics and write you off as biased.
In a world where cryonics were obviously worthwhile to anyone with neuroscience expertise, one would expect to see many more cryonics-boosting neuroscientists than could be employed by Alcor and CI. Indeed, you might expect there to be more major cryonics orgs than just those two.
In other words, it’s only unfair if we think size of the “neuroscientist” pool is roughly comparable to the size of the market for cryonics researchers. It’s not, so IMO JRMayne raises an interesting point, and not one I’d considered before.
This is a little unfair: if you have neuroscience experience and think cryonics is very important, then going to work for Alcor or CI may be where you can have the most impact. At which point others note that you’re financially dependent on people signing up for cryonics and write you off as biased.
In a world where cryonics were obviously worthwhile to anyone with neuroscience expertise, one would expect to see many more cryonics-boosting neuroscientists than could be employed by Alcor and CI. Indeed, you might expect there to be more major cryonics orgs than just those two.
In other words, it’s only unfair if we think size of the “neuroscientist” pool is roughly comparable to the size of the market for cryonics researchers. It’s not, so IMO JRMayne raises an interesting point, and not one I’d considered before.