[extropy-chat] Yehuda Yudkowsky, 1985-2004

[Gina Miller]

I'm signed up for cryonics, and my husband is signed up.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Hara Ra 
  To: ExI chat list 
  Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 7:32 PM
  Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Yehuda Yudkowsky, 1985-2004


  Well, personally I am a cryonicist. I was appalled at the low number of 
  extropians who have signed up.

  If I ever get a chance to do something more about this, I will certainly 
  tell the list about it.

  At 10:17 AM 11/19/2004, Adrian Tymes wrote:
  >It is probably no condolence that there will be many
  >more - *far* too many more - before we finish
  >implementing a way around it.  But at least there is
  >a way to calculate it: multiply this tragedy by the
  >several million (billion?) between now and then, and
  >one starts to appreciate the magnitude of the horror
  >we seek to strike down.
  >
  >I wonder if this is something like the fictional
  >Cthuluoid horrors: a terror so deep and profound that
  >most people can't even acknowledge it, but just go
  >ever so slowly insane trying to deal with it.  (Like,
  >say, by inventing a God that causes death and then
  >believing in God despite all evidence to the
  >contrary.)

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