This shows the difference between the purely “skeptic” mentality versus the mentality of an inventive problem solver.
“There is practically no chance cyonics [sic] can work” really means “There is practically no chance cryonics can work” given the way cryonics organizations currently perform their suspensions, a way of framing the problem which I find worth discussing, because I think it comes closer to the truth and doesn’t discourage exploring new approaches to the problem.
While I consider this an unrealistic fantasy so far, I’d like to think that a couple of bright & energetic college students somewhere with aspirations of becoming the next Steve Wozniak, Sergey Brin or Bill Gates will discover cryonics, notice that the field has stayed relatively neglected and underdeveloped so far, and decide to go into it to revolutionize the technology. In the meantime that leaves us cryonicists with the burden of trying to nudge the kludge into something closer to feasibility.
This shows the difference between the purely “skeptic” mentality versus the mentality of an inventive problem solver.
“There is practically no chance cyonics [sic] can work” really means “There is practically no chance cryonics can work” given the way cryonics organizations currently perform their suspensions, a way of framing the problem which I find worth discussing, because I think it comes closer to the truth and doesn’t discourage exploring new approaches to the problem.
While I consider this an unrealistic fantasy so far, I’d like to think that a couple of bright & energetic college students somewhere with aspirations of becoming the next Steve Wozniak, Sergey Brin or Bill Gates will discover cryonics, notice that the field has stayed relatively neglected and underdeveloped so far, and decide to go into it to revolutionize the technology. In the meantime that leaves us cryonicists with the burden of trying to nudge the kludge into something closer to feasibility.