Hello everybody,
I’m new to the discussion board. Some nice stuff right here and I’ve discovered lots. Personally, I’m nonetheless rapa-curious due to monetary constraints and threat aversion, though I share your targets, and can doubtless look into hopping on the rapamycin practice within the coming years.
I’ve seen that there isn’t a lot dialogue about cryonics or mind preservation right here. I’m curious as to why that’s? Are there any explicit explanation why folks don’t appear to be on this matter?
Right here’s my purpose for being stunned. Rapamycin is being studied as a possible life-extension drug in people. There may be additionally numerous dialogue about different speculative life-extension dietary supplements/medicines right here. Nonetheless, rapamycin can be just about unproven in people. So, it solely actually is smart if one is keen to take a monetary threat on an unproven product.
Cryonics/mind preservation is a distinct sort of life extension that can be wholly unproven. It’s mainly the gamble that if one preserves themselves upon dying, future know-how will have the ability to bootstrap (a) a treatment to what killed you and (b) the flexibility to revive people who find themselves preserved with modern know-how. Most definitely, if revival ever involves fruition, the know-how would contain AI and issues which are tough for us to think about immediately.
Really, cryonics/mind preservation is, in a way, decrease threat than rapamycin and most of the dietary supplements mentioned right here, as a result of it solely begins once you’re useless anyway. There isn’t any concern for unwanted effects, so much less to lose! (Except you’re extra involved than most about worse-than-death outcomes upon revival, which most individuals don’t appear to be, however that may make sense).
There are some comparatively low-cost choices on the market for cryonics. Cryonics Germany is free. Oregon Cryonics has choices from $1000-$28,000. Cryonics Institute prices about $30,000.
There may be some overlap between the fields. For instance, James Clement was a former board member at Alcor and he’s now working trials of the efficacy of rapamycin at his nonprofit Betterhumans.
So I’m curious: what do you all take into consideration cryonics/mind preservation? Any curiosity in pursuing it for your self?
Curious to listen to any ideas! =)
