Update on Kim Suozzi (cancer patient in want of cryonics)

ahartell

Kim Suozzi was a neuroscience student with brain cancer who wanted to be cryonically preserved but lacked the funds. She appealed to reddit and a foundation was set up, called the Society for Venturism. Enough money was raised, and when she died on the January 17th, she was preserved by Alcor.

I wasn't sure if I should post about this, but I was glad to see that enough money was raised and it was discussed on LessWrong here, here, and here.

Source

Edit: It looks like Alcor actually worked with her to lower the costs, and waived some of the fees.

Edit 2: The Society for Venturism has been around for a while, and wasn't set up just for her.

Source

Edit: It looks like Alcor actually worked with her to lower the costs, and waived some of the fees.

Edit 2: The Society for Venturism has been around for a while, and wasn't set up just for her.

press releases

Here's one: http://phys.org/news/2012-08-d-wave-quantum-method-protein-problem.html

That doesn't apply to large proteins yet, but it doesn't make me optimistic about the nanotech timeline. (Which is to say, it makes me update in favor of faster R&D.)

Nobody believes in D-Wave.

6CarlShulman13y

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/08/d-wave-quantum-computer-solves-protein-folding-problem.html [...] You have a computer doing something we could already do, but less efficiently than existing methods, which have not been impressively useful themselves? ETA: https://plus.google.com/103530621949492999968/posts/U11X8sec1pU