The alcor-page was not updated since 15th December 2022, where a person who died in August 2022 (as well as later data) was added, so if he was signed up there, we should not expect it too be mentioned yet.
For CI latest update was for a patient dying 29th February 2024, but I can’t see any indication of when that post was made.
“To the best of my knowledge, Vernor did not get cryopreserved. He has no chance to see the future he envisioned so boldly and imaginatively. The near-future world of Rainbows End is very nearly here… Part of me is upset with myself for not pushing him to make cryonics arrangements. However, he knew about it and made his choice.”
That feels so sad to me. Unlike most people he had the possibility of cryopreservation.
Here we are on the cusp of the singularity, and even if we make it through, he, who saw it coming earlier than almost anyone, who saw more clearly than most how radically everything would change, won’t live to see it.
And judging from Alcor and the Cryonics Institute logs he was not cryopreserved :-/
The alcor-page was not updated since 15th December 2022, where a person who died in August 2022 (as well as later data) was added, so if he was signed up there, we should not expect it too be mentioned yet. For CI latest update was for a patient dying 29th February 2024, but I can’t see any indication of when that post was made.
“To the best of my knowledge, Vernor did not get cryopreserved. He has no chance to see the future he envisioned so boldly and imaginatively. The near-future world of Rainbows End is very nearly here… Part of me is upset with myself for not pushing him to make cryonics arrangements. However, he knew about it and made his choice.”
https://maxmore.substack.com/p/remembering-vernor-vinge
This doesn’t really raise my confidence in Alcor, an organization that’s supposed to keep bodies preserved for decades or centuries.
Check out this page, it goes up to 2024.
Noted, thank you. This does raise my confidence in Alcor.
That feels so sad to me. Unlike most people he had the possibility of cryopreservation.
Here we are on the cusp of the singularity, and even if we make it through, he, who saw it coming earlier than almost anyone, who saw more clearly than most how radically everything would change, won’t live to see it.
I hope he makes it.
Presumably he understood the value proposition of cryonics and declined it, right?
Has he talked about it? I know Ray Kurzweil has.