Comments on: Rudi Hoffman: Ten Ways to Avoid Being the Next Cryonics Legal Case http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2010/03/rudi-hoffman-ten-ways-to-avoid-being-the-next-cryonics-legal-case/ Transhumanism, AI, nanotechnology, the Singularity, and extinction risk. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:08:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Zack M. Davis http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2010/03/rudi-hoffman-ten-ways-to-avoid-being-the-next-cryonics-legal-case/#comment-130345 Zack M. Davis Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:16:34 +0000 http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=1647#comment-130345 <i>"I should think that in the long term, the world would be willing to trade every quarter in circulation (likenesses of Washington) for the actual preserved brain and body of George Washington"</i> I wanted to say that that's absolutely ridiculous, but when I actually do the arithmetic, it turns out to be slightly less ridiculous than I initially thought.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_State_Quarters" rel="nofollow">The last decade's worth</a> of quarters is more than eight billion dollars; it's still over a billion if you just meant the metal price instead of the face value. The total number of quarters in circulation is much more than this, but surely it can't be more than a factor of, I don't know, five? So say we're talking forty billion dollars on the high end, or 15% of Microsoft. Now, I still think this is absolutely ridiculous for a single human being, but such sums have been spent in worse ways---look at the Iraq war. “I should think that in the long term, the world would be willing to trade every quarter in circulation (likenesses of Washington) for the actual preserved brain and body of George Washington”

I wanted to say that that’s absolutely ridiculous, but when I actually do the arithmetic, it turns out to be slightly less ridiculous than I initially thought.The last decade’s worth of quarters is more than eight billion dollars; it’s still over a billion if you just meant the metal price instead of the face value. The total number of quarters in circulation is much more than this, but surely it can’t be more than a factor of, I don’t know, five? So say we’re talking forty billion dollars on the high end, or 15% of Microsoft. Now, I still think this is absolutely ridiculous for a single human being, but such sums have been spent in worse ways—look at the Iraq war.

]]> By: Summerspeaker http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2010/03/rudi-hoffman-ten-ways-to-avoid-being-the-next-cryonics-legal-case/#comment-130323 Summerspeaker Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:28:35 +0000 http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=1647#comment-130323 Wow, with support from Ben Franklin, you'd think cryonics would receive a bit more respect in the United States. Ah well. Wow, with support from Ben Franklin, you’d think cryonics would receive a bit more respect in the United States. Ah well.

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