The difference is you hit reductio ad absurdum. There's nothing fundamentally wrong or evil in trying to live forever, most people simply think it's sort-a silly. With the population growing being what it is, some even think it selfish.
People don't think it through... With the population growing too fast, the best thing we can do is start putting people in cryostorage until we can start uploading them or moving them off-planet. It is incredibly energy-efficient to store cold things in bulk.
I have 5.5 bitcoins saved up at 1Jdn36JUwvJdr3Qiie4aAseFdcoTsND9Qo -- I plan to use them to fund cryonics research and/or buy free cryonics storage in bulk for people who can't afford it. Whatever turns out to be most useful.
I wonder if a brainwallet would be a good idea for a cryo patient? You could make payment be contingent on thawing the person in good enough condition that they can remember their passphrase. But if you get woken by someone with no ethics they could revive you, scan your brain for the passphrase / torture it out of you, then kill you. (Or maybe scan your brain for the info and not bother reviving you at all.)
Anyway yeah there definitely ought to be more cross-pollenation between the two groups (it's basically the same demographic).
Or at least the possibility of extending it.
Gold?
