Anton Sherwood wrote:
>Robin Hanson:
> > > The number of cryonics customers is very small (I am one of them), so
> > > there is likely a lot of truth in this. Yet we spend huge amounts now
> > > on medicine for people in their last year of life, . . . .
>
>David Brin: [...]
> > Your use of "we" above made me think that cryonics folks were spending
> > the money on late phase treatments.
>
>Perhaps Robin meant "we" as payers of taxes or insurance premia.
Yes, that's what I meant.
Robin Hanson rhanson@gmu.edu http://hanson.gmu.edu
Asst. Prof. Economics, George Mason University
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Received on Wed Jan 19 06:44:36 2000
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