[ExI] Cryonics dinners

[Anders Sandberg]

Here is a new tradition we have started in Oxford (if you do something 
twice in Britain it is a tradition, and must be continued until the end 
of time): every time someone newly signed up gets their cryonics 
bracelet (or similar thing) we (the other cryonicists) invite them to a 
celebratory dinner at some suitably posh restaurant. A mild motivator, 
but most importantly a way of building a social cluster.

We are getting a nice little cluster of people signed up over here; four 
that I know of, two at early stages of signing up and at least one 
likely to do it sooner or later. Creating a supportive social community 
seems to produce very good feedback effects - both for helping motivate 
the sign-up process, giving advice and to help keep track of each 
other's state. It is of course easier in a small, dense location like 
Oxford.

Now I really ought to get working on that paper on the ethics of cryonics.

-- 
Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford University