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From: Kennita Watson <>
Subject: Re: Cryonics meets future fatigue
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:52:21 -0800

Mark Plus wrote:
> I have to wonder if the recent expressions of anxiety about how to  
> run a cryonics organization reflect a deeper, unstated fear: That  
> technological progress has effectively stagnated or stalled for  
> intrinsic reasons, so that nobody will ever have the ability to  
> resuscitate us no matter how many centuries a cryonics organization  
> can keep pouring liquid nitrogen over our bodies.

Not true for me -- I mostly worry that the organizations
will self-destruct before the technology is developed.
Also, every body that isn't put in LN2 now is a person
lost forever, so if the organizations aren't growing,
more people are dying.
>
> For example, cryonicists starting 20 years ago apparently put a lot  
> of stock in Eric Drexler's ideas as the technological hocus-pocus  
> to bring us back; but it looks now that Drexlerian nanotech has  
> joined the ranks of other paleo-future fantasies like space  
> colonies, flying cars and nuclear power too cheap to meter. The  
> rush to vitrification implicitly acknowledges nanotech's  
> infeasibility.

Um, no -- vitrification causes less damage, and less
damage means you get out of LN2 and back in the game
sooner.  By the way, I think those other things will
probably happen (unless something makes them obsolete),
but not in the time frames we'd hoped.

Live long and prosper,
Kennita
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