[ExI] Fwd: Ignemus lucem aeternam

[Giovanni Santostasi]

Keith,
I'm of course.
Giovanni

On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 1:41 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I am curious.  How many of you are signed up for cryonics?
>
>
> Keith
>
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 1:33 PM efc--- via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > This happens to me too. The advice is to resend your message if you
> > encounter this error.
> >
> > As for the reason, I have no idea. Maybe some incorrectly configured mail
> > server? It is a bit annoying though.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Daniel
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 22 Sep 2023, Keith Henson via extropy-chat wrote:
> >
> > > For some odd reason, this was blocked. The response from the remote
> server was:
> > >
> > > 541 5.7.1 Intrusion attempt denied from 209.85.161.42
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> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > > From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
> > > Date: Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 12:47 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [ExI] Ignemus lucem aeternam
> > > To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> > > Cc: <rafal at smigrodzki.org>, Gadersd <gadersd at gmail.com>
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 10:38 AM Gadersd via extropy-chat
> > > <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > 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?
> > >>
> > >> Many religions offers eternal life and many Americans are religious.
> It is sad that people ignore an actually realistic way to achieve long
> life, but rationality has never been a strong suit of the majority of the
> population.
> > >
> > > I can't cite statistics, but I don't think many of those signed up are
> > > religious.  Religions sort of provide a patch for knowledge of
> > > mortality.  Cryonics does that in a different and perhaps more
> > > rational way.
> > >
> > > Keith
> > >
> > >> > On Sep 22, 2023, at 1:53 AM, 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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