Mati_Roy
Sparks Brain Preservation is $45k for members ($150/yr for membership), and you should be able set up a payment so you would pay with your assets after death (payment doesn’t need to be upfront). You can also apply to a hardship fund if that still remains infeasible for you. As far as I can tell it’s the org with the best electron micrographs of human brain preservation. And there’s nationwide coverage. Bonus: Signing up is easy; the form is pretty straightforward.
I’d be curious to know what you think about it.
(Note: I’m on the board. We’re a non-profit.)
59 years after the first cryopreservation we finally have non-zero electron micrographs!!! Super grateful for Greg Fahy’s research! And thanks for doing a write-up on it!
I’m sorry for your lost. I bet she got a better preservation than most humans given the laws are much more supportive for non-human preservations.
Are you looking for Neptune or Vulcan?
Thanks for writing and sharing that! I have at least one family member for whom physician approval is one of their main uncertainty about the validity of cryonics
if your mind clones are edited to not mind being shut down, then is ethically fine to shut them down? it wouldn’t violate their preference and also it would make it clear to you that you’re not a mind clone. but still feels icky. and are you indistinguishable from a mind clone when you’re not actively reflecting on your desire not to die? how similar can a mind clone be while having such a core value altered?
Cool! Thanks for the update!
I also think upload is probably fine.
But also, while not an expert, I don’t think I’d put most of my probaiblity mass on “it’s physically impossible to ‘unfix’ a brain / return a protein to their original state”.
Neuroscientist survey says P(brain preservation works) is substantial
probability of reverting biological viability of fixated brain seems plausibly higher to me than reverting structural integrity (connectome mapping) of traditional cryonics 🤷♂️ I’m still signed up with Alcor atm, but I’d rather vitrifixation
What Is Death?
Maybe you would need a trust in between?
But yeah, good point, it might explain (more) why it didn’t blow up.
“A victory for the natural order”
should make it easier to convince, no? this system is more likely to mean the donation is tax deductible which is good
ah, yeah, that’s what I was referring to with:
At some point this incentive mechanism would stop working because a party receiving 0 vs a party receiving non-zero would benefit more from having money at the margin.
I’m not sure I’m seeing how “most ads aren’t for getting people to switch sides” means “$10m of ads for one party and $8m in ads for the other is not equivalent to $2m in just one”
Amazing, thank you! I’ll share with the founder I know
Thank you! I’ll share with the founder I know
Thoughts on the Double Impact Project
it’s Jordan Sparks (https://cryonics.miraheze.org/wiki/Jordan_Sparks)
“Pascal mugging” has become such a semantic stop sign; I see it apply way too loosely like “oh this has a large value if realized therefore Pascal mugging and therefore it’s bad” 😔 at this point why not say all start-ups are Pascal mugging investors (and by “mugging” here we mean give them high expected returns but low probability)