Mati_Roy(Mati Roy)
@avturchin said that KrioRus allows post-mortem sign up
that made me thought that Alcor also allows post-mortem sign up by family members that are signed up with Alcor, although at a 50k USD surcharge
OregonCryo also allows it
I think CI does also post-mortem sign up only for their members, but I’m not sure
maybe relevant: The correct response to uncertainty is not half-speed
Another consideration I just recalled from experience
Following mainstream traditions
With brain-only preservation, you can still dispose of the rest of the body in a traditional way, which often means a viewing followed by burial. For this reason, some of my family members were much more interested in brain-only preservation.
According to cryonics practitioners and thanatologists I communicated with, it’s possible to remove the brain from the braincase while only leaving a scar above the forehead, and so leaving the body in a viewable state.
Although for a better preservation, a solution needs to be injected in the body which will make the body swell, which most likely renders the body not viewable (at least not in a traditional way).
Do you still use 2 phones? edit: oops, I saw your answer in your review; nvm
I think I largely agree with you, but just a thought: Mayyybe drugs can help us explore / learn about parts of ourselves that are usually “keep in check” (in some ways) by other parts_
Does your drugged self not want to get subber to stay their true (from their reference point IIUC) self?
am assuming you’re implying recreating a brain with the same information content (otherwise it’s trivially true AFAICT; just make a baby^^)
yeah, that seems plausible to me
in a way, that’s what mind uploading is (although in that case your mind is decoupled from the hardware)
[Question] How much harder is it to revive a neuro-only cryonics patient?
Time cost
Feel free to contract me for help signing up. I already helped multiple people. contact@matiroy.com
But I’m not in the US!
For Québec: https://cryoquebec.org/
What I chose
Whole-body with a note that Alcor could choose what seemed best at the moment of my death (ex.: if they only have the equipment for neuro cryoprotection, then neuro seems better).
20 years term-life insurance for 350k CAD, because I have a high confidence in my capacity to save enough money to be able to pay cash in 20 years, and have other safety nets. Otherwise would recommend whole life insurance.
(I think universal life insurances are bad – better to buy your investments and insurances separately to avoid extra premium. Life insurance agents will likely tell you otherwise. Life insurance agents make more money on universal life insurances.)
FYI, your comment was posted 3 times, probably because of a LessWrong bug that makes it seems as if your comment was posted when you click on ‘submit’
was a mistake
turning off comments serves as a coordination mechanism to discuss the topic at the same place
hummm, basically time-consuming, especially if/when it develops into an addiction + am less focused when horny
Am thinking of organizing a one hour livestreamed Q&A about how to sign up for cryonics on January 12th (Bedford’s day). Would anyone be interested in asking me questions?
x-post: https://www.facebook.com/mati.roy.09/posts/10159154233029579
No name that I’m aware. Brainstorming ideas: map merging, compartmentalisation merging, uncompartmentalising
We sometimes encode the territory on context-dependent maps. To take a classic example:
when thinking about daily experience, stars and the Sun are stored as different things
when thinking in terms of astrophysics, they are part of the same category This makes it so that when you ask a question like “What is the closest star [to us]?”, in my experience people are likely to say Alpha Centauri, and not the Sun. Merging those 2 maps feels enlightening in some ways; creates new connections / a new perspective. “Our Sun is just a star; stars are just like the Sun.” leading to system-1 insights like “Wow, so much energy to harvest out there!” Questions:
Is there a name for such merging? If no, should there be? Any suggestions?
Do you have other (interesting?) examples of map merging? x-post: https://www.facebook.com/mati.roy.09/posts/10159142062619579
Litany of Tarski for instrumental rationality ὠA
If it’s useful to know whether the box contains a diamond,
I desire to figure out whether the box contains a diamond;
If it’s not useful to know whether the box contains a diamond,
I desire to not spend time figuring out whether the box contains a diamond;
Let me not become attached to curiosities I may not need.
Working a lot is an instrumental goal. If you start tracking your time, and optimizing that metric, you might end up working more than optimal. That seems like a triumph of instrumental goals that isn’t a coordination failure. I wouldn’t assign this failure to Moloch. Thoughts?
Alcor has historically defended their patients pretty thoroughly against family members wanting to take back the “biological remains”. Although I think the Cryonics Institute has just never been sued; also, David Ettinger works probono as a lawyer for them.
I wonder why they never got sued. Hypotheses:
they don’t take risky case
they are better at PR
chance
other
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