[ExI] Ignemus lucem aeternam

[Giovanni Santostasi]

When I live there are at least 3 Morticians businesses. I hate them to the
core. They capitalize on death.
I always think, when I take my walks, how interesting if all these
morticians' businesses converted to cryonics in an imaginary world where
cryonics was accepted as a matter of course.
Most people care about life and also what happens after life. It is just
that we were fed this fairy tale of a spiritual afterlife for millions of
years, basically since we started to be aware, we always come up with ways
to escape death even if just in our imagination. Most religions are all
about defeating death in one way or another (again in imaginary ways). It
is all that we could do until a few decades ago.

Now we have a scientifically valid way, even if the odds are still small
they are not zero and it should be better than being eaten by worms or
being burnt to ashes. But people are ignorant or turn off for some reason I
cannot understand given the alternatives are much more grotesque. The
economics of cryonics would be taken care if even if a small % would
consider it a valid option.
It is strange the numbers are so small because even the strangest hobbies
or interests have for sure higher numbers. Given the importance of the
matter, I'm so shocked so few people sign up. It is also baffling that the
super-wealthy are not more into cryonics. Something is happening at the
mental space level that I don't quite understand.

Giovanni



On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 10:55 PM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> In between vegging out on YouTube today I was idly cogitating on the state
> of cryonics in the US and I was struck by the following statistic - out of
> 3x10e8 Americans there may be around 3 - 4 thousand who are signed up.
> Let's say that's one in a hundred thousand.
>
> Let that sink in - cryonics is a highly scientifically plausible way to
> avoid dying for a really, really long time, which is easily available to
> all but the poorest of the poor Americans and yet only 1 person in 100,000
> intends to use it.
>
> What the holy fuck?
>
> One person in a hundred thousand wants to live to see the future and there
> will be a lot to see in the future. Telescopes as large as galaxies.
> Quasars remade into particle accelerators to probe the Planck scale. Oracle
> AIs whose thoughts will span billions of years. Negentropy driven infinite
> self-propagating thought substate.
>
> Ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety nine say "Nah, we're just gonna
> die. It sounds like a good idea. Eternal life? Hell, fuck no!". The mass
> insanity! The death cult!. What is wrong with those people?
>
> David Deutsch says that every day is the beginning of infinity. Those who
> make it through the rapture of the nerds will rise to heavens in fiery
> starships. They will conquer the firmament and piss on alien planets. They
> will carry the eternal light of thought into the lifeless void.
>
> I think it is the greatest idea since sliced bread. Life is good.
>
> Ignemus lucem aeternam!
>
> Rafal
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