Hello (potential) cryonics customer, you should ask for third-party audit of your cryopreservation. This ensures that the cryonics providers aren't performing the procedure badly, say through negligence, ignorance, or something else. Specifically, you should ask that the following be sent to an imaging specialist of your choice AFTER your brain...
From the BPF blog (of which I’m a volunteer) here’s the story of a kid with a terminal illness who is holding out for the development of brain preservation for future uploading. In the comments he justifies not signing up for cryonics with > Lack of medical accountability and support...
I found this article on the Brain Preservation Foundation's blog that covers a lot of common theories of consciousness and shows how they kinna miss the point when it comes to determining if certain folks should or should not upload our brains if given the opportunity. > Hence I see...
The recent major media article by Amy Harmon brings to the public eye the potential of human cryopreservation and chemopreservation techniques to preserve the memories and personal identity of individuals. We at the Brain Preservation Foundation have considered many common counterarguments to this endeavor (see below, and our FAQ and...
Discussion article for the meetup : Schelling Cafe WHEN: 29 August 2015 03:00:57PM (-0700) WHERE: Cafe La Renaissance, 3045 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705 For anyone in the Berkeley, SF, Oakland area, there's a weekly gathering called the Schelling Cafe that holds on Saturdays at 3pm (on hiatus the past...
I wrote a blog post arguing that people sign up for cryo more for peace of mind than for immortality. This suggests that cryo organizations should market towards the former desire than the latter (you can think of it as marketing to near mode rather than far mode, in Hansonian...
I'm in Lagos, Nigeria till the end of May and I'd like to hold a LessWrong/EA meetup while I'm here. If you'll ever be in the country in the future (or in the subcontinent), please get in touch so we can coordinate a meetup. I'd also appreciate being put in...