However donating money to research aimed at improving cryopreservation techniques and developing the science to also revive patients is worthwhile.
If you sign up with Alcor, your money goes both to cryopreserve your self with the current best technology, and to develop better technologies—although I’m not aware of any significant advances since vitrification replaced freezing.
although I’m not aware of any significant advances since vitrification replaced freezing.
Just a couple of months ago I asked Max More about that very topic. He didn’t have much that was very informative to say. I also asked that question back during the time when Regina Pancake was their responst-team coordinator, to a similar response. I know Hugh, Mike, et al, are “working on it”—but I haven’t heard much convincing there. Their current attitude seems to be that the toxicity problems of the vitrification agents are a non-issue in the face of potential destructive-scanning uploading solutions.
I, for one, am not sufficiently convinced that their preservation strategy ensures that as an option, to the degree necessary to actually preserve my me-ness as I today know it. So I haven’t signed up.
If you sign up with Alcor, your money goes both to cryopreserve your self with the current best technology, and to develop better technologies—although I’m not aware of any significant advances since vitrification replaced freezing.
Just a couple of months ago I asked Max More about that very topic. He didn’t have much that was very informative to say. I also asked that question back during the time when Regina Pancake was their responst-team coordinator, to a similar response. I know Hugh, Mike, et al, are “working on it”—but I haven’t heard much convincing there. Their current attitude seems to be that the toxicity problems of the vitrification agents are a non-issue in the face of potential destructive-scanning uploading solutions.
I, for one, am not sufficiently convinced that their preservation strategy ensures that as an option, to the degree necessary to actually preserve my me-ness as I today know it. So I haven’t signed up.