A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is 100 percent fatal

The reality of cryonics is a little bit more nuanced than I originally thought. Here's a really good read which changed my mind and puts more color to what Nectome is trying to do - https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html

Wow, so now the cryogenic companies have come to their logical conclusion and will actively kill their customers instead of waiting for them to die on their own.

Still, I don't see why a viable brain scan from your dead brain has significantly better probability than getting your entire body rebuilt from your frozen carcass, so it seems like the competition with the straight up cryo guys for the gullible optimists should be pretty intense. Especially as cryo companies have a longer track record of staying solvent (if they have, I have not idea actually).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16577627

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