A Friendly Reminder to Sign Up for Cryonics Tuesday, Feb 27 2007
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Email Michael:
February 27th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Please shrink the picture; it runs off the end of the page.
February 27th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Done… by the way, notice the ice crystal at the bottom of Hippocrates’ staff? That represents cryonics.
February 27th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
“Done… by the way, notice the ice crystal at the bottom of Hippocrates’ staff? That represents cryonics. ;-)”
I noticed that, although cryonics is only really a stopgap measure.
February 27th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Yeah. I can think of other stopgap measures that I’m not allowed to talk about. Sucks. I’m not just talking about quantum suicide, either.
February 27th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Why aren’t you “allowed” to discuss these other stopgap measures, Michael. WHOSE “permission” do you need? WHO is this **censor**?!
February 27th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Quantum immortality doesn’t sound like a very good thing to rely on. In fact, I hope the concept is somehow wrong, because it seems like world-lines where you barely survive in severe suffering would be far more common than ones where you survive unscathed.
I second the question: who’s not letting you talk about what?
February 27th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Sign up for cryonics - in the voting booth.
February 27th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
“Yeah. I can think of other stopgap measures that I’m not allowed to talk about. Sucks. I’m not just talking about quantum suicide, either.”
If you’re worried about posting it on a public forum, you already have our email addresses.
February 27th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
I’m not letting me talk about it. Self-censorship, bwuahaha!
Quantum immortality isn’t what I was referring to. Hadn’t thought of the barely escaping thing. There may actually be good reasons why continuity of consciousness just doesn’t continue after death, even in an infinite multiverse.
One potential stopgap measure to death would be to just film yourself a lot. Enough behavioral information could eventually allow some of your original consciousness and personality to be reconstituted, along with numerous memories. I don’t recommend this, though.
February 28th, 2007 at 5:38 am
Hi there, (sorry for not being related to this post)
What’s up? See my newest paper please: (in External links)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_energy
I think you’d like it! And maybe you’d want to write about it?
Cheers,
MM
More info:
http://www.starstreamresearch.com/mansouryar.htm
February 28th, 2007 at 6:18 am
Downloading the article requires a username and password, or I have to buy it. Can you please upload the document to a server or send me a copy for free?
February 28th, 2007 at 9:38 am
[This thing needs a preview button!)
I’m not letting me talk about it. Self-censorship, bwuahaha!
Would it be harmful if too many people did it? Would there be a risk of people putting too much faith in it and taking stupid risks? Inquiring minds want to know!
Quantum immortality isn’t what I was referring to. Hadn’t thought of the barely escaping thing. There may actually be good reasons why continuity of consciousness just doesn’t continue after death, even in an infinite multiverse.
I sure as hell hope so, although I have a very hard time thinking of any plausible ones. At least then I would be able to shift other suffering in the multiverse into the ‘generalized past’ like you, instead of anticipating it in my future.
One potential stopgap measure to death would be to just film yourself a lot. Enough behavioral information could eventually allow some of your original consciousness and personality to be reconstituted, along with numerous memories. I don’t recommend this, though.
Or keep a detailed diary. We may be able to resurrect many people from the Victorian era this way.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:20 am
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You’re not going to use a more interesting username to post on this site?
[This thing needs a preview button!)
Every time I install a new Wordpress plugin, I run the risk of mucking everything up, or wasting time installing it for it to not work at all. When I go for another “plugin spree”, I will look for a preview thingy. Notably, my spam filter works almost perfectly, filtering out all spam and letting in all desired comments with zero effort on my part.
Would it be harmful if too many people did it? Would there be a risk of people putting too much faith in it and taking stupid risks? Inquiring minds want to know!
Harmful as in potentially hosing everyone, yes. It isn’t possible with present-day technology, but would be possible within our lifetimes. Any freeze-framing techniques or ideas, however clever or sophisticated, would of course depend on non-frozen individuals to continue developing the technology necessary for extreme life extension while avoiding civilizational terminus.
One sci-fi idea (forgot which story it was from) was about some special device that goes where the corpus callosum is, and eavesdropped on the interhemispheric traffic to the point where it could supposedly record all relevant data about the brain and preserve it in a crystal. Of course, this is just speculative.
February 28th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
You’re not going to use a more interesting username to post on this site?
LOL. At first I just used my initials to be quick, but why not switch to my real name.
Any freeze-framing techniques or ideas, however clever or sophisticated, would of course depend on non-frozen individuals to continue developing the technology necessary for extreme life extension while avoiding civilizational terminus.
I see your point. I’m very intrigued as to exactly what could pose this risk, but it’s good that you don’t talk about it.
One sci-fi idea (forgot which story it was from) was about some special device that goes where the corpus callosum is, and eavesdropped on the interhemispheric traffic to the point where it could supposedly record all relevant data about the brain and preserve it in a crystal.
There was something like that in “Pilot” by Stephen Baxter, but I’m sure there are many others as well. But that doesn’t seem like much of an existential threat.
February 28th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Harmful as in potentially hosing everyone, yes.
I can only think that these ideas of yours must be applications of future technologies which we already anticipate will be dangerous. Or have you discovered some genuinely new existential risks?
February 28th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
Mitchell, you’re correct. I’ll go so far as to say it’s an AI-related idea.
March 1st, 2007 at 3:31 pm
And now we’re dying of curiousity.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:51 pm
TOO BAD. This is Accelerating Future, not Accelerating the Destruction of Planet Earth’s Future.