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Comment on About by Kevin Perry

Kevin Perry — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:11:28 +0000

Could someone tell me where I could find Mike Darwin’s contact information? preferable his email?

Thank you.

Kevin

Comment on Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02: First, Try to Make it to the Mean: Diet as a life extending tool, Part 2 by Kristina

Kristina — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 05:58:17 +0000

Happy to see an increasing awareness of the need to balance omega-6 and omega-3. Thank you for that! I believe one of the many great benefits of olive oil must be the relatively small amount of omega-6 it contains, or at least the low ratio of omega-6 to omega-3.

Comment on Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02: First, Try to Make it to the Mean: Diet as a life extending tool, Part 2 by Kristina

Kristina — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 05:20:24 +0000

Sadly, this information is a bit outdated. Ancel Keys data has since been expanded to cover 24 countries proving his assertions off base. Recently significant problems have been found with studies used by the American Heart Association in creating the advisory to decrease saturated fat and increase polyunsaturated fat (without regard for the proper balance between omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids in the blood and tissues) and irresponsibly suggesting a high level of omega-6 intake (not supported by the research). I highly suggest the latest: http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.e8707.

Comment on A Brief Pictorial History of Extracorporeal Technology in Cryonics – Part 5 by Jeffrey Sites

Jeffrey Sites — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:17:11 +0000

I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN FASCINATED BY THIS. IT’S REAL, VALID AND LIKE ROUTINE PERFUSION HAS TO BE MANAGED WITH A PROCESS AND GOAL IN MIND. I HAVE THE FIRST CLINICAL EXPERIENCE OF INDUCING SIGNIFICANT HYPERTHERMIA THERAPEUTICALLY (43.5 DEG C) AND ALWAYS WANTED TO EXPLORE THIS. I ALSO HAVE SUCCESSFULY RESUSCITATED MILITARY PERSONNEL WHO WERE SUFFERING SEVERE HYPOTHERMIA (<22 DEG C). WHAT IS THE STATUS AND WHERE IS THIS BEING DONE IN 2013?

Comment on Science Fiction, Double Feature, 2: Part 3 by peter gouras

peter gouras — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:55:03 +0000

I am very impressed. Keep it up!

Comment on Bon Voyage, Fred Chamberlain by Bon Voyage, Fred Chamberlain | methuselahunbound

Bon Voyage, Fred Chamberlain | methuselahunbound — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 08:30:35 +0000

[...] Chronosphere article and obituary [...]

Comment on Going, Going, Gone… Part 3 by “Rising Plague” « Entitled to an Opinion

“Rising Plague” « Entitled to an Opinion — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:08:04 +0000

[...] notes that there has been much more success treating that than bacteria. This is in accordance with Mike Darwin’s account of the early “AIDS underground”, which almost seems to have been written to illustrate Sailer’s Mancur Olson-esque point [...]

Comment on The Kurzwild Man in the Night by Mark Plus

Mark Plus — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 01:28:00 +0000

Kurzweil’s new job at Google might reconnect him to reality for awhile, unless Google hired him for symbolic reasons without expecting him to produce. His career seems to illustrate the problem Peter Thiel keeps drawing attention to: Kurzweil’s view of “the future” emphasizes computing, computing and even more computing because computing received exemption from the political restrictions on progress in energy and stuff that geeks have faced since 1970 or so. These restrictions would explain why we have tablet computers and smart phones right out of science fiction, but we live in cities which look more and more like the “After” photos of a zombie apocalypse.

Unfortunately cryonics has become a casualty in this loss of freedom to innovate, along with transhumanist visions of the transformation of human biology to make us into immortal supermen, to coin a phrase. I don’t see much awareness among transhumanists of the political and social context which determines what kinds of ideas can possibly turn into real things and what ones can’t.

Comment on Cryonics and Technological Inevitability by Taurus

Taurus — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 02:37:07 +0000

Re-reading this article; I couldn’t help but chuckle at this comment.
A 40-year limit on existing nuclear plants in Japan, and a commitment to derive no energy from nuclear power by the time the 2030′s are out (a position that enjoys popular consensus).

“There is no other option.”
When it comes to the future, there are ALWAYS other options, including (perhaps especially) those that seem unlikely *merely* because they aren’t optimal.

“Technological inevitability” …indeed.

Comment on Cryonics, Nanotechnology and Transhumanism: Utopia Then and Now by Mark Plus

Mark Plus — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:39:26 +0000

http://www.amazon.com/The-Visioneers-Scientists-Nanotechnologies-Limitless/dp/0691139830/

I’ve skimmed through the parts of The Visioneers that Amazon lets me read online, and it strikes me that I could have written this book myself. I’ve witnessed or at least followed the events it describes, starting with my membership in the L-5 Society in the late 1970′s and my involvement in the cryonics subculture starting in the 1990′s. I’ve even met or I know some of the people mentioned in this book.

It seems to cover a lot of the same ground as Ed Regis’s Great Mambo Chicken published in 1990, but with the benefit of an additional 20 years added to the baseline to show that many of these futurist ideas from the 1970′s and 1980′s – centered around Gerard K. O’Neill and Eric Drexler – which generated such enthusiasm at the time apparently don’t work.

Unfortunately cryonics has gotten mixed up in this bad futurology, when cryonics has an independent set of problems and ways of trying to solve them. The association has apparently damaged cryonics’ credibility as well.

So I imagine that someone will write a similar book about 20 years from now about (the probably dead or cryosuspended) Ray Kurzweil and Eliezer Yudkowsky to show how they misdirected a generation of geeks with their futurist fantasies the way O’Neill and Drexler did in the 1970′s and 1980′s.