Today I had the health exam for the life insurance policy associated with my cryonic suspension contract.
Then I grabbed my best friend and girlfriend and repeatedly showed them clips from the Futurama episode where Fry's dog waits for years after Fry gets frozen, and Fry misses his dog in the future, and the dog misses Fry in the past, etc. They are now both awaiting insurance policy quotes for their own suspension contracts.
HPMOR-related? (Curious.)
No, but Sequences-related. I finished them a couple weeks ago, and it just seemed like the only choice that still made sense.
Harry has already upgraded two existing spells: partial transfiguration and Patronus 2.0
In both cases, he achieved the impossible by ignoring what wizards believe and instead concentrating on his own beliefs.
What does Harry believe about Hermione that other wizards do not? He believes she is a purely biological machine, that there are no souls, and that a reductionist viewpoint is correct.
Therefore, in the right frame of mind, perhaps Harry can reparo a dead human (although canon!reparo cannot repair magical items properly, I wonder if it might restore Hermione without her magic, and if she might just be just as awesome without it.)
So much win.
I signed up for life insurance to pay for cryonics. I'm told it'll be about six weeks from today until I'm fully covered (and CI coverage should start the same day).
I recently started using Anki on my phone. Seems easy, effective and even somewhat fun. I don't actually have anything that seems very important to memorize yet though. I've been (re-)learning Hiragana and Katakana with the vague intention of learning enough Japanese to read untranslated manga or something, but while it's been easy enough so far the goal doesn't seem super high value and Kanji is looking many times harder.
For those who use public transit, anki on the phone is lifechanging. I'd advise keeping a small notepad with you in case you think of something to look up, check, add or edit later - those are all inconvenient on the phone, especially if one is on the subway and can't get online at all.
I think Alcor is generally seen as better and more expensive. But it's all a bet on the relative stability of the companies; if one of them goes bust, I'm pretty sure you can redirect your insurance policy beneficiary, so the important thing is to get that setup early...
Any suggestions besides Rudi Hoffman for finding insurance policies? I requested a quote from him on Monday, but haven't yet heard back.
I recently finished the Sequences, and I'm convinced about cryopreservation (well, convinced that it's a good idea; not 100% convinced it will work...) but I'm not sure what to do next.
Is there any known reason to sign up for Alcor vs Cryonics Institute (or some other org that I'm not familiar with)? I'm young (22) and healthy, if that matters.
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I don't get it. Could you explain it please?
At least one of the definitions is applicable to any arbitrary proposition. Either (1) it can be counterfeited, implying that there's no test you can perform to determine the true state of things, or (2) it can be tested to determine the true state of things.