[ExI] [TIQ] RIP Daniel Dennett

[Keith Henson]

On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 2:46 AM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> I can't wait till we get the resurrection technology
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ybLgIbOSDu9-ye1wAu9B5RnCBuSVcIihtXrhtVWZajo/edit>
> to bring these guys back.  And I wish AI would hurry and find a cure for
> aging, so we could quit losing the great ones like these.
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We have cryonics.  I seriously doubt on information theoretic grounds that
we will get back anyone who has not been cryonically suspended.

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> Have you guys seen Kurzweil these days?  He is really not looking good
> lately.  I fear I'm going to see him in the headlines some day.  That will
> hurt more than anyone.  Is there any way we could all throw him a party
> before he goes or something?
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> Kurtzweil is signed up with Alcor, same as me, Damien Broderick, Eric
Drexler, Ralph Merkel, a long list of people we know, but not enough of
them.  Perhaps we need to start a list of people we want to be signed up.
It really hurt when Vernor Vinge died.


> Losing your good friends and heroes, especially the personal ones for me
> like Sasha <https://transhumanism.fandom.com/wiki/Alexander_Chislenko> and
> Marvin <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky>,  (I know many of
> you here knew these guys) is the hardest part of getting old.
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> Minsky was suspended.  I had a tiny bit to do with that happening.  At
almost 82, I might be the oldest on the list.

Keith

PS.  On the other hand, being revived in the future might not be a bed of
roses.  Things are changing so fast that it is disorienting to me and I
have been on top of the AI business since the early 80s.

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