Depending on the venue, "Qapla'!" ("Success!") could be a suitable replacement.

I'm trying to apply some of the lessons in rationality I've picked up here at LessWrong. Like MoR!Draco, just because I've had one clever idea doesn't mean I've gotten the hang of cleverness - or that the idea I've had is actually right. It doesn't mean I'm wrong, either; so I'm trying to collect some data on other aspiring rationalists' opinion, to use to update my own confidence-level, even if I don't necessarily trust them to be fully rational in the sense of Aumann's Agreement Theorem.

Your blog post parallels ideas that I've been musing about myself. An artist I know turned my thoughts on democracy into a comic, the second one of the set here. And my pet hard-SF setting assumes much of what you describe at the end of your post - remote-controlled infantry allowing the powers-that-be to ignore popular disapproval (including having put down the 'Blue Revolution' across most of the planet), leading to an oligarchy in fact if not in name.

That's a fair summary of my thought process, yes.

One term I thought about including was "Red Queen's Race" - on a decades-long scale, with the general pace of scientific progress worldwide, societies have to research as hard as they can just to stay in the same place.

Another complication worth considering is that not all data is copyrighted; the problem copyright is claimed to have been initially developed to solve was too many people keeping their information as unpublished trade secrets. When Enigma was cracked, that was kept as an unpublished secret for quite some time; as are a number of present-day secrets, such as nuclear warhead designs. So even if copyright was shrunk to a single year, or less, that doesn't necessarily imply the immediate spread of next-generation military technology to one's neighbours.

IIRC, that applies to trademark, but not necessarily to copyright. (IANAL, either.)

Once MetaMed has been paid for and done a literature search on a given item, will that information only be communicated to the individual who hired them, or will it be made more widely available?

My cryo provider is CI, and I've not only gotten hold of all their forms, but my lawyer has been exchanging emails with their lawyer to work out various details.

I'm unfamiliar with the protocol for shopping around for lawyers; the firm I'm currently dealing with has been the firm my family has been using since, well, before I can remember, and they've always treated us well.

Part of the arrangements being made are to find at least one funeral home willing to perform the immediate steps - then there's the life insurance policy (only part of which is for cryo-preservation), Estate Trustees, personal care PoA, the will itself... I freely admit that there were aspects to even ordinary wills and PoAs which I was completely unaware of before my first meeting. None of the standard do-it-yourself will packages cover anything close to what's necessary; that's why I would like professional assistance.