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This article made me think about how, since the really the beginning of time each generation of people has come up with some completely rational (at the time) argument of why they will get into the afterlife/heaven.

The Egyptians tried really hard to preserve the body using the best science they had available at the time - it kinda worked because they never suffered from the 'second death' (but I guess just not in the way they hoped).

And that thinking forced me to have a good long think about whether cryonics is just the same as previous beliefs or if it's... (read more)

Me too. I feel like more people will sign up after that article.

Hello from NZ. So I'm basically, I'm here to promote my... Jokes, I came across this website from a Wait But Why article I was doing research on (Cryonics). The comments here are next level awesome, people share ideas and I feel like the moderators aren't ruled by one discourse or another. So yeah I decided to jump on in and check it out.

I enjoy Science, Learning, Entrepreneur stuff, and better ways of looking at the world.

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Menilik Dyer! I thought it might be you! We met at a Mum's Garage thing (I was the one wearing no shoes and a lot of grey). So cool to see you here. Welcome to the mouth of this bottomless rabbithole that is modern analytical futurism. I'd hazard you already have some sense of how deep it goes. If anyone's reading this; Menilik is a badass. He once successfully built a business by picking a random market sector he knew nothing about and asking people on the ground what they might need.