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If you want to learn more—the Alcor FAQ and Ben Best’s FAQ are great ways to start. Both the Alcor andCryonics Institute websites are full of information, and if you want to go a whole level deeper, dig into Alcor’slibrary (where you can also find cryopreservation case reports) or this collection of cryonics-related journal articles. Many more sources are listed below. Z`f _e?
If you want to help or get involved—you can donate to Alcor or CI or volunteer to help at Alcor. Alcor lists some specific types of people they need help from at the bottom of this page. K[9 <a>D`
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If you liked this post, you’ll want to read these: \GkcK$Y
What Makes You You? – A post that uses mind-bending thought experiments to dig into the weirdest, hardest cryonics question EUNG&U
The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence – Something that might be way better at helping us conquer mortality than cryonics (or the opposite and it’ll extinct us) dzcPSbbpt
How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars – Like cryonics except instead of trying to extend a person’s life, it’s trying to extend the species’ life Rbl(oj#
Or, for something less heavy, this makes me feel not that scared about cryonics causing overpopulation.
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Sources )HmpVH
Alcor’s website is a great resource, especially their main FAQ, their science FAQ, and their library. They also have a substantial YouTube page. I got the idea for the plane going down / experimental parachutes metaphor from the video testimonial of Alcor member Andrew Popper – thanks Andrew. 8=?I/9Xh
The other thing from this post that was inspired from outside work is the concept of death as an overlord, which is loosely based on the storyline of Nick Bostrom’s The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant, where the role of death is played by a dragon. If you liked that part of the post, definitely read the fable. HS2)vd@)
The Cryonics Institute also has a lot of good information, especially the FAQ of Ben Best, their ex-president. SQHVgj
I feel bad having focused only on Alcor and CI in this post and ignoring the smaller but spirited KrioRus outside of Moscow. Here’s a good article from FT Magazine (by Courtney Weaver) that focuses on them. n
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Here’s a collection of cryonics-related journal articles. Here’s another. @B[V'|
Here are a handful of cryopreservation case reports. L2:C6Sc
Scientist and cryonicist Ralph Merkle nicely articulates a bunch of the stuff I talked about on his website. A lot of people compare the “why the fuck not?” argument for cryonics with Pascal’s Wager. Merkle doesn’t think it’s a great comparison – here’s why. t EN%mK
This is a pretty riveting This American Life episode about cryonics. It focuses on the early days of the movement in the ’60s and ’70s, honing in on a notorious cryonics disaster. And here’s a Stuff You Should Know about cryonics. 2vur_`cV
A letter by 60 scientists arguing that cryonics should be taken seriously in the science world. 0lEIj/u
Eliezer Yudkowsky finds a way of popping his head into like a third of the posts I write as I research. He has a bunch of interesting stuff to say about cryonics. Here’s one thing. Here’s another. h?SUDk:2^
Two great recent articles about cryonics: One from Motherboard (by Brian Merchant) about a dying two-year-old girl whose parents made her the world’s youngest cryonics patient. And one from the NY Times (by Amy Harmon) that I referenced at the end of the post about a 23-year-old who signed up with Alcor before she died of a brain tumor. d9^h
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An interesting Reddit AMA with a cryonics member. O[m+5+
An article from Newsweek (by Anthony Cuthbertson) about the Feb 2016 rabbit-brain-vitrifying breakthrough. xo*a9H?@
I only read excerpts of this, but here’s Robert Ettinger’s famous book that launched the cryonics movement in the early ’60s. rVO+
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An interesting New York Magazine article (by Kerry Howley) that explores the phenomenon of family conflict over cryonics. +Gjy%JFp
An Atlantic article (by Rose Eveleth) about the cryonics process. Alcor has a good page on the procedure too. So does CI. 5=$D~>-#
Meet Michael Hendricks, a smart scientist who thinks cryonics is horse shit. Here’s another skeptic. And another. Alcor refutes skeptics with this page and this page, and it admits problems with cryonics here. ei"FN3 Rm
Alcor’s pricing. And CI’s. 1,/oS&?E
A video nicely articulating the case for cryonics by Alcor’s CEO Max More.