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Cryonics

TagLast edit: 16 Nov 2022 6:55 UTC by Question Mark

Cryonics is the practice of preserving people who are dying in liquid nitrogen soon after their heart stops. The idea is that most of your brain’s information content is still intact right after you’ve “died”, i.e. medical death or legal death. If humans invent molecular nanotechnology or brain emulation techniques, it may be possible to reconstruct the consciousness of cryopreserved patients.

Related: Life Extension, a more general tag about ways to avoid death.

Cryonics-associated issues commonly raised on LessWrong

Pro-cryonics points

Anti-cryonics points

Notable Posts

External links

See also

Cry­on­ics p(suc­cess) es­ti­mates are only weakly as­so­ci­ated with in­ter­est in pur­su­ing cry­on­ics in the LW 2023 Survey

Andy_McKenzie29 Feb 2024 14:47 UTC
22 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Why wasn’t preser­va­tion with the goal of po­ten­tial fu­ture re­vival started ear­lier in his­tory?

Andy_McKenzie16 Jan 2024 16:15 UTC
31 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics and Regret

MvB24 Jul 2023 9:16 UTC
170 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics Ca­reer Sur­vey (more jobs than you think)

Mati_Roy18 Jun 2023 2:13 UTC
41 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Who are the Ex­perts on Cry­on­ics?

Mati_Roy27 May 2023 19:24 UTC
30 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(biostasis.substack.com)

The Case for Brain-Only Preservation

Mati_Roy20 Apr 2023 22:01 UTC
21 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(biostasis.substack.com)

[Question] Near-mode cry­on­ics: A thought experiment

Mati_Roy9 Apr 2023 22:21 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics com­pa­nies should let peo­ple make con­di­tions for reawakening

Andrew Vlahos18 Mar 2023 21:03 UTC
10 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] (Cry­on­ics) can I be frozen be­fore be­ing near-death?

hollowing1 Mar 2023 6:44 UTC
6 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Pe­ti­tion on brain preser­va­tion: Allow global ac­cess to high-qual­ity brain preser­va­tion as an op­tion rapidly af­ter death

Mati_Roy26 Feb 2023 15:56 UTC
29 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.change.org)

Great Cry­on­ics Sur­vey of 2022

Mati_Roy3 Dec 2022 5:10 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Will chat logs and other records of our lives be main­tained in­definitely by the ad­ver­tis­ing in­dus­try?

mako yass29 Nov 2022 0:30 UTC
14 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Cry­on­ics-ad­ja­cent question

Flaglandbase30 Jun 2022 23:03 UTC
12 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Brain preser­va­tion to pre­vent in­vol­un­tary death: a pos­si­ble cause area

Andy_McKenzie22 Mar 2022 12:36 UTC
39 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

[Question] Who is do­ing Cry­on­ics-rele­vant re­search?

Wuschel Schulz15 Mar 2022 10:26 UTC
32 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

In­ter­view with Nec­tome CEO Robert McIn­tyre—Brain Preser­va­tion, Per­sonal Iden­tity, AGI, and More

JohnGreer23 Feb 2022 1:54 UTC
14 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Has any­one had weird ex­pe­riences with Al­cor?

Jaevko11 Jan 2022 21:47 UTC
49 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Kri­orus up­date: full bod­ies pa­tients were moved to the new lo­ca­tion in Tver

avturchin26 Nov 2021 21:08 UTC
23 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Whole Brain Emu­la­tion: No Progress on C. el­e­gans After 10 Years

niconiconi1 Oct 2021 21:44 UTC
219 points
87 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews

Cryosleep

harsimony28 Sep 2021 22:33 UTC
9 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(harsimony.wordpress.com)

Con­flict in Kri­orus be­comes hot to­day, up­dated, up­date 2

avturchin7 Sep 2021 21:40 UTC
49 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

How much should we value life?

Adam Zerner6 Sep 2021 22:30 UTC
29 points
25 comments38 min readLW link

Hope and False Hope

TekhneMakre4 Sep 2021 9:46 UTC
4 points
60 comments6 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics prices were more com­pli­cated when I dou­ble-clicked

tcelferact23 Aug 2021 1:26 UTC
11 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

In­ter­est in Biosta­sis: Much More Than You Wanted to Know. (Re­sults from the ACX 2021 Biosta­sis/​Cry­on­ics Sur­vey)

Synaptic11 Aug 2021 0:43 UTC
30 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(synopticz.github.io)

Longter­mism vs short-ter­mism for per­sonal life extension

Mati_Roy17 Jul 2021 3:52 UTC
12 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Notes on Robert McIn­tyre’s Brain Preser­va­tion Talk at the Long Now Foundation

JohnGreer28 Apr 2021 20:47 UTC
8 points
2 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] What do you think would be the best in­vest­ment policy for a cry­on­ics trust?

Mati_Roy4 Apr 2021 19:20 UTC
14 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

2 in­no­va­tive life ex­ten­sion ap­proaches us­ing cry­on­ics technology

Mati_Roy2 Apr 2021 0:54 UTC
41 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

[April – weekly] Fo­cus­mate: biosta­sis, lifel­og­ging, death-fo­cus ethics

Mati_Roy31 Mar 2021 16:49 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[re­cur­rent] Fo­cus­mate: cry­on­ics and lifelogging

Mati_Roy11 Mar 2021 16:28 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Fo­cus­mate: Cry­on­ics sign up

Mati_Roy1 Mar 2021 15:41 UTC
13 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Cur­rent cry­on­ics impressions

KatjaGrace6 Feb 2021 10:00 UTC
63 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Reflec­tions on the cry­on­ics sequence

mingyuan3 Feb 2021 1:17 UTC
100 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

#6: Op­tional ad­di­tional steps

mingyuan2 Feb 2021 23:57 UTC
42 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

#5: Mak­ing your cry­on­ics ar­range­ments official

mingyuan2 Feb 2021 23:54 UTC
37 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

#4.4: The in­surance un­der­writ­ing process

mingyuan28 Jan 2021 2:33 UTC
29 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

#4.3: Cry­on­ics-friendly in­surance agents

mingyuan27 Jan 2021 21:13 UTC
37 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

#4.2: Cry­on­ics-friendly life in­surance carriers

mingyuan27 Jan 2021 21:05 UTC
33 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] How is Cryo differ­ent from Pas­cal’s Mug­ging?

eapache27 Jan 2021 13:51 UTC
6 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

#4.1: Types of life insurance

mingyuan26 Jan 2021 19:55 UTC
39 points
13 comments11 min readLW link

#4: In­tro­duc­tion to life in­surance for cryonics

mingyuan22 Jan 2021 20:58 UTC
48 points
10 comments6 min readLW link

Ap­pen­dices to cry­on­ics signup sequence

mingyuan22 Jan 2021 6:40 UTC
30 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

#3: Choos­ing a cry­on­ics provider

mingyuan20 Jan 2021 1:47 UTC
93 points
21 comments18 min readLW link

#2: Neu­ro­cry­op­reser­va­tion vs whole-body preservation

13 Jan 2021 1:18 UTC
59 points
24 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] How much harder is it to re­vive a neuro-only cry­on­ics pa­tient?

Mati_Roy12 Jan 2021 23:24 UTC
20 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Why the out­side view sug­gests that longevity es­cape ve­loc­ity is a long time away and cry­on­ics is a much more fea­si­ble op­tion for those al­ive to­day: sig­nal-boost­ing a com­ment by Calm-Meet9916 on Reddit

Synaptic8 Jan 2021 17:20 UTC
32 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics signup guide #1: Overview

mingyuan6 Jan 2021 0:25 UTC
150 points
33 comments6 min readLW link1 review

Buy­ing micro-biostasis

Mati_Roy7 Oct 2020 10:55 UTC
13 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics Cost-Benefit Analysis

niplav3 Aug 2020 17:30 UTC
46 points
8 comments32 min readLW link

[Question] If you are signed up for cry­on­ics with life in­surance, how much life in­surance did you get and over what term?

Eli Tyre22 Jul 2020 8:13 UTC
26 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[link] Biosta­sis /​ Cry­op­reser­va­tion Sur­vey 2020

Mati_Roy16 May 2020 7:20 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[link] How many hu­mans will have their brain pre­served? Fore­casts and trends

Mati_Roy7 May 2020 6:11 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Cry­on­ics?

kinchen4 Mar 2020 2:40 UTC
9 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

The case for lifel­og­ging as life extension

Matthew Barnett1 Feb 2020 21:56 UTC
48 points
17 comments3 min readLW link1 review

[Question] What are the mer­its of sign­ing up for cry­on­ics with Al­cor vs. with the Cry­on­ics In­sti­tute?

Eli Tyre11 Sep 2019 19:06 UTC
21 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Cry­op­reser­va­tion of Valia Zeldin

avturchin17 Mar 2019 19:15 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

$5m cryp­tocur­rency dona­tion to Al­cor by Brad Arm­strong in mem­ory of LWer Hal Finney

gwern17 May 2018 20:31 UTC
22 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.alcor.org)

Book Re­view: Freez­ing Peo­ple is (Not) Easy

J Thomas Moros30 Mar 2017 3:53 UTC
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(ferocioustruth.com)

A re­view of cry­on­ics/​brain preser­va­tion in 2016

Andy_McKenzie31 Dec 2016 18:19 UTC
36 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Cryo with mag­net­ics added

morganism1 Oct 2016 22:27 UTC
8 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Why Cry­on­ics Makes Sense—Wait But Why

Paul25 Mar 2016 11:41 UTC
22 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

The Brain Preser­va­tion Foun­da­tion’s Small Mam­malian Brain Prize won

gwern9 Feb 2016 21:02 UTC
72 points
42 comments4 min readLW link

Dry Ice Cry­on­ics- Pre­limi­nary Thoughts

Fluttershy28 Sep 2015 7:00 UTC
12 points
9 comments6 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics: peace of mind vs. immortality

oge24 Jun 2015 7:10 UTC
4 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

Up­date on the Brain Preser­va­tion Foun­da­tion Prize

Andy_McKenzie26 May 2015 1:47 UTC
41 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Per­sis­tence of Long-Term Me­mory in Vitrified and Re­vived C. el­e­gans worms

Rangi24 May 2015 3:43 UTC
34 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

How to sign up for Al­cor cryo

oge26 Apr 2015 2:51 UTC
51 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

Even bet­ter cry­on­ics – be­cause who needs nanites any­way?

maxikov7 Apr 2015 20:10 UTC
69 points
41 comments6 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics in Europe?

roland10 Oct 2014 14:58 UTC
23 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Run­ning the num­bers: Cryo vs Dis­count rate

RomeoStevens4 Jun 2014 7:54 UTC
9 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

The Cry­on­ics Strat­egy Space

Froolow24 Apr 2014 16:11 UTC
40 points
47 comments8 min readLW link

How long will Al­cor be around?

Froolow17 Apr 2014 15:28 UTC
45 points
52 comments5 min readLW link

Gun­shot vic­tims to be sus­pended be­tween life and death [link]

Dr_Manhattan27 Mar 2014 16:33 UTC
37 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ists Are Less Cre­d­u­lous But Bet­ter At Tak­ing Ideas Seriously

Scott Alexander21 Jan 2014 2:18 UTC
103 points
287 comments3 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics As Un­tested Med­i­cal Procedure

jefftk17 Jan 2014 16:36 UTC
20 points
39 comments2 min readLW link

Why I haven’t signed up for cryonics

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 12 Jan 2014 5:16 UTC
43 points
252 comments5 min readLW link

I Will Pay $500 To Any­one Who Can Con­vince Me To Can­cel My Cry­on­ics Subscription

ChrisHallquist11 Jan 2014 10:39 UTC
54 points
182 comments2 min readLW link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Cry­on­ics, Con­test Results

lsparrish19 Nov 2013 17:06 UTC
22 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

PSA: Very im­por­tant policy change at Cry­on­ics Institute

Scott Garrabrant3 Oct 2013 5:47 UTC
26 points
99 comments1 min readLW link

Robin Han­son’s Cry­on­ics Hour

orthonormal29 Mar 2013 17:20 UTC
47 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Open Source Soft­ware Devel­oper with Ter­mi­nal Ill­ness Hopes to Opt Out of Death

lsparrish13 Feb 2013 5:57 UTC
22 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

Up­date on Kim Suozzi (can­cer pa­tient in want of cry­on­ics)

ahartell22 Jan 2013 9:15 UTC
68 points
63 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] We Agree: Get Froze

MinibearRex31 Dec 2012 5:22 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

More Cry­on­ics Prob­a­bil­ity Estimates

jefftk17 Dec 2012 20:59 UTC
30 points
89 comments3 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics as Charity

jefftk10 Nov 2012 14:21 UTC
6 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

How to get cry­ocras­ti­na­tors to ac­tu­ally sign up for cryonics

JGWeissman18 Aug 2012 17:57 UTC
29 points
94 comments2 min readLW link

Plasti­na­tion is ma­tur­ing and needs fund­ing, says Hanson

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Jun 2012 20:00 UTC
105 points
47 comments1 min readLW link
(www.overcomingbias.com)

Two kinds of cry­on­ics?

lsparrish10 May 2012 2:43 UTC
22 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

An ex­er­cise in re­ally go­ing through with it

[deleted]23 Apr 2012 23:17 UTC
35 points
22 comments5 min readLW link

Let’s cre­ate a mar­ket for cryonics

[deleted]10 Apr 2012 6:36 UTC
61 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Al­cor vs. Cry­on­ics Institute

prespectiveCryonaut9 Apr 2012 1:49 UTC
50 points
125 comments2 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics with­out freez­ers: re­s­ur­rec­tion pos­si­bil­ities in a Big World

Scott Alexander4 Apr 2012 22:48 UTC
73 points
140 comments6 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics on LessWrong vs at LessWrong meetups

jefftk2 Apr 2012 18:27 UTC
10 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Brain Preservation

jefftk28 Mar 2012 12:56 UTC
33 points
108 comments3 min readLW link

New book from lead­ing neu­ro­scien­tist in sup­port of cry­on­ics and mind uploading

lukeprog8 Feb 2012 21:36 UTC
36 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Look­ing for in­for­ma­tion on cryonics

Metus2 Feb 2012 12:33 UTC
23 points
56 comments1 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics costs: given es­ti­mates are low

gwern14 Nov 2011 17:07 UTC
45 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics on Cas­tle [Spoilers]

wedrifid4 Oct 2011 9:46 UTC
35 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

How Likely Is Cry­on­ics To Work?

jefftk25 Sep 2011 23:38 UTC
25 points
124 comments3 min readLW link

Marti­ne­naite and Tave­nier on cryonics

Paul Crowley4 Aug 2011 7:39 UTC
28 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Years saved: Cry­on­ics vs VillageReach

handoflixue1 Aug 2011 21:04 UTC
27 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

On the un­pop­u­lar­ity of cry­on­ics: life sucks, but at least then you die

gwern29 Jul 2011 21:06 UTC
127 points
472 comments7 min readLW link

[LINK] Father of Cry­on­ics “Dies” at age 92

JackEmpty27 Jul 2011 18:19 UTC
−1 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics fa­cil­ity com­ing to Texas?

SilasBarta28 Jun 2011 14:51 UTC
22 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The cost of uni­ver­sal cryonics

handoflixue26 May 2011 2:33 UTC
52 points
42 comments5 min readLW link

But But­ter Goes Ran­cid In The Freezer

JenniferRM9 May 2011 6:01 UTC
42 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Link: Cry­on­ics and the Creation of a Durable Morality

lsparrish12 Feb 2011 18:10 UTC
16 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

My mother is now in cryostasis

turchin8 Jan 2011 20:27 UTC
46 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

Sus­pended An­i­ma­tion Inc. ac­cused of incompetence

CronoDAS18 Nov 2010 0:20 UTC
47 points
139 comments1 min readLW link

Is cry­on­ics evil be­cause it’s cold?

ata31 Oct 2010 23:59 UTC
32 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

Op­ti­mism ver­sus cryonics

lsparrish25 Oct 2010 2:13 UTC
48 points
110 comments1 min readLW link

Against Cry­on­ics & For Cost-Effec­tive Charity

multifoliaterose10 Aug 2010 3:59 UTC
9 points
189 comments11 min readLW link

The Threat of Cryonics

lsparrish3 Aug 2010 19:57 UTC
43 points
216 comments4 min readLW link

A pro­posal for a cryo­genic grave for cryonics

Roko6 Jul 2010 19:01 UTC
29 points
204 comments3 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics Wants To Be Big

lsparrish5 Jul 2010 7:50 UTC
47 points
185 comments3 min readLW link

Ab­nor­mal Cryonics

Will_Newsome26 May 2010 7:43 UTC
79 points
420 comments5 min readLW link

A sur­vey of anti-cry­on­ics writ­ing

Paul Crowley7 Feb 2010 23:26 UTC
115 points
326 comments7 min readLW link

That Mag­i­cal Click

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Jan 2010 16:35 UTC
86 points
416 comments5 min readLW link

Nor­mal Cryonics

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Jan 2010 19:08 UTC
96 points
964 comments4 min readLW link

An­drewH’s ob­ser­va­tion and op­por­tu­nity costs

Scott Alexander23 Jul 2009 11:36 UTC
29 points
61 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity, Cry­on­ics and Pas­cal’s Wager

Roko8 Apr 2009 20:28 UTC
18 points
58 comments5 min readLW link

The Pas­cal’s Wager Fal­lacy Fallacy

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Mar 2009 0:30 UTC
44 points
128 comments3 min readLW link

You Only Live Twice

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Dec 2008 19:14 UTC
186 points
182 comments6 min readLW link

Time­less Identity

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Jun 2008 8:16 UTC
54 points
249 comments14 min readLW link

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Paris Hilton

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Oct 2007 0:31 UTC
3 points
97 comments1 min readLW link