[extropy-chat] transhumanist nut jobs

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 12:56:14AM -0400, Keith Henson wrote:

> >Long the domain of transhumanist
> >nut-jobs, cryogenic suspension may be just two years away from clinical
> >trials on humans
> 
> Well, it isn't cryonic or cryogenic suspension, but if you look at it, 
> "just two years away from clinical
> trials on humans" kind of cancels out "transhumanist nut-jobs."

The Wired's waster of dead tree and electrons is technically 
illiterate. He confuses cryonics with cryogenics, equals cryonics 
with hypothermia, and doesn't even know that it were precisely 
those "transhumanist nut-jobs" who did this work, oh, more a 
decade ago, with dogs, and a lot better than the pig work cited. 
And he also fails to realize that the ceiling of hypothermia is somewhere
in range of about 12 hours, maybe less, maybe more. Hypothermia
is however an essential first step for cryonics, which can't
be reversed without advanced nanotechnology, something 
that Wired person apparently also isn't aware of. It's
hard to package that much confusion in a few lines of text, but
the author manages that with bravour. Kudos for that.

I've never bothered reading Wired (I'm told, they were
reasonably interesting a year or two after conception), 
and now I know why. 

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