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Effective Altruism and Cryonics, Contest Results
4 years ago
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Thank you to each of the five contestants who entered an essay into the contest that was started a little over a week ago to explore cryonic
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[Prize] Essay Contest: Cryonics and Effective Altruism
4 years ago
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I'm starting a contest for the best essay describing why a rational person of a not particularly selfish nature might consider cryonics an e
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Bitcoins are not digital greenbacks
4 years ago
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Should you probably donate a bitcoin to your future self? Bitcoin has been in the news a bit lately. In case anyone hasn't been following
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Bitcoin Cryonics Fund
4 years ago
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The bitcoins that I had set aside for a Cryonics contest two years ago (and were unredeemed) are suddenly worth a lot more. Details: I had
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[LINK] Open Source Software Developer with Terminal Illness Hopes to Opt Out of Death
5 years ago
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Aaron Winborn writes: TLDR: http://venturist.info/aaron-winborn-charity.html So maybe you've heard about my plight, in which I wres
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[Link] Aschwin de Wolf on Chemical Brain Preservation
5 years ago
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Aschwin de Wolf, a cryonics researcher at Advanced Neural Biosciences, has written two new articles discussing reasons for sticking with cry
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[Event] Symposium on Cryonics and Brain-Threatening Disorders
5 years ago
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Upcoming event: On Saturday July 7, 2012, the Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics and Cryonics Northwest will organize a symposium on c
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Avoid inflationary use of terms
5 years ago
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Inflationary terms! You see them everywhere. And for those who actually know and care about the subject matter they can be very frustrating.
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What is the best programming language?
5 years ago
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Learning to program in a given language requires a non-trivial amount of time. This seems to be agreed upon as a good use of LessWrongers' t
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Two kinds of cryonics?
5 years ago
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I've been considering lately whether it would perhaps be best to develop and promote terminology that splits cryonics into two distinct conc
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