<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 2:46 AM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>snip<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>I can't wait till we get the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ybLgIbOSDu9-ye1wAu9B5RnCBuSVcIihtXrhtVWZajo/edit" target="_blank">resurrection technology</a> 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.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We have cryonics. I seriously doubt on information theoretic grounds that we will get back anyone who has not been cryonically suspended. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div>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. <br>
</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div>Losing your good friends and heroes, especially the personal ones for me like <a href="https://transhumanism.fandom.com/wiki/Alexander_Chislenko" target="_blank">Sasha</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky" target="_blank">Marvin</a>,
(I know many of you here knew these guys)
is the hardest part of getting old.</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div>Minsky was suspended. I had a tiny bit to do with that happening. At almost 82, I might be the oldest on the list.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Keith</div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br><br>
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