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Can we decrease the risk of worse-than-death outcomes following brain preservation?
3 years ago
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Content note: discussion of things that are worse than death Over the past few years, a few people have claimed rejection of cryonics due
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Mike Darwin on animal research, moral cowardice, and reasoning in an uncaring universe
5 years ago
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He writes this essay in response to someone who writes about their "gut level emotional response when [they] thought about dogs being likely
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Brief response to kalla724 on preserving personal identity with vitrification
5 years ago
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About a month ago kalla724 posted a number of comments on this post, many of which were highly upvoted. Synopsis: I) I think that kalla724
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Mike Darwin on the Less Wrong intelligentsia
6 years ago
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He has resumed posting at his blog Chronopause and he is essential reading for those interested in cryonics and, more generally, rational de
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Umbilical cord stem cell banking for future medical use
6 years ago
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I had not heard of this until recently, and I doubt I am alone. I will quote from this source, which looks OK (there is also this). What i
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Mike Darwin on Kurzweil, Techno-Optimism, and Delusional Stances on Cryonics
6 years ago
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In a comment on his skeptical post about Ray Kurzweil, he writes, Unfortunately, [Kurzweil's] technological forecasting is naive, and I b
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Mike Darwin on Steve Jobs's hypocritical stance towards death
6 years ago
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First, Darwin describes Jobs's (far mode) stance towards death: As Aschwin points out Jobs is on record (his Stanford Commencement Speec
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Biopreservation (of the cells of nearly-extinct animals) in hopes that future tech can restore them
6 years ago
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Interesting recent article from Ben-Nun et al. (doi:10.1038/nmeth.1706) in the high-impact journal Nature Methods. As I understand it, the
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