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Anyone into cryonics? I think there's an interesting angle making it more accessible which could have positive downstream effects (e.g. 1) increased funding for research into cognitive uploading, 2) potentially decreased healthcare costs if people use the service before the tremendously expensive last 5-10 years of life) beyond the obvious of potentially being able to advance tech that would be a step towards radical life extension or perhaps enabling interplanetary travel.


I don't think you can do this one as a hobby really. You need to store brains which means taking them out of peoples heads or getting hold of animal brains. Plus you need to create liquid nitrogen and you also need a block face scanning electron microscope which has diamond parts and scale that up to a brain. So ur looking at several mil and a team of 50 people.


Yeah I was thinking more of brainstorming and ideating on how to do it at scale before launching a real co, I agree that you can't have a fly by night operation when you're dealing with something like this (just the regulatory issues alone I'm sure require tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to get set up correctly).




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