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- Wed Oct 02, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Fruit fly brain upload
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2511
Fruit fly brain upload
A fruit fly has successfully been uploaded. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07558-y 140,000 neurons. It's the first complex brain to get uploaded. If you fire up the brain in an emulator and present it with a taste input, it will stick out it's tongue. How cool is that? I expect the quali...
- Thu Jul 25, 2024 8:05 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: about case reports
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9262
Re: about case reports
Just super busy. Trying to find some time. It won't happen next week as I'll be on vacation. I will try hard to at least keep a current posted list of all patients, even if no time for a case report. As for the donated bodies, we get over 100 per year. We won't post those.
- Tue Jul 23, 2024 7:16 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Registration disabled temporarily due to spammers
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3740
Registration disabled temporarily due to spammers
I just disabled registration of new users for a while. Too many spammers, and I won't be available to watch it closely this week. In a few weeks, I'll try to come up with a better anti-spam strategy and then turn it back on. Existing users can still make posts.
- Tue Jul 23, 2024 6:10 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Kurzweil uploads
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4517
Re: Kurzweil uploads
The beginnings of this technology already exist. Stentrode is a stent that gets implanted in blood vessels in the brain. It can be used in patients with severe paralysis caused by stroke, injury, ALS, etc. The stent has electrodes on it, making it a brain-computer interface. This feels like a much b...
- Sun Jun 30, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Kurzweil uploads
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4517
Kurzweil uploads
Kurzweil's latest book just came out. I'm not going to discuss his AI predictions because we each have our own constantly evolving opinions about the trajectory of AI. But what caught my attention was the idea of using nanobots in the brain capillaries to perform a mind upload. I've always said that...
- Mon Jun 03, 2024 4:20 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Laura Deming starts Cradle
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4961
Laura Deming starts Cradle
https://www.cradle.xyz/page/problem-statement https://www.cradle.xyz/page/founder-letter Laura Deming is an entrepreneur who seems to get unwarranted press coverage and money from gullible people. Fine, she got into MIT at a young age -- good for her. But then she dropped out. That's not something t...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:16 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Fallout and 3 Body Problem
- Replies: 0
- Views: 9316
Fallout and 3 Body Problem
I just finished binge watching Fallout. Great show. Some of the ridiculous impossible technologies included cold fusion, brain in a jar, and cryonics. There are two fundamentally different ways of depicting cryonics. The nearly universal way that it's depicted on TV and in movies is as a suspended a...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:10 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: clarification for realistic life extension.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 14303
Re: clarification for realistic life extension.
We're building a vault. While not underground, it will be reinforced concrete on all 6 sides. The plans are all drawn and stamped, but I'm having the engineer make a few minor changes. Should be ready to start building within a few months.
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:04 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Remote cases and membership
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8238
Remote cases and membership
We have a tentative plan for doing remote cases. We will have a number of pathology specialists here on staff. They will be trained in our techniques and use them regularly. Airlines allow formaldehyde in checked baggage, so we will send out one or two specialists to the remote funeral home where th...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:38 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Robotic surgery
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11197
Re: Robotic surgery
The robotic surgery was a total pipe dream, of course. But today we performed our first atraumatic brain extraction. No cuts and no overhandling. Our procedure and skills are getting better and better. It's not perfected yet, but it should be after a few dozen more cases. This was the first time tha...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:26 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: clarification for realistic life extension.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 14303
Re: clarification for realistic life extension.
Agreed. Good job, and it sounds like you are on the right track. I would point out one little nagging detail, though. I'm not sure that your deanimation plan will succeed. That step is probably harder than most people naively assume. There's even a good chance that most historical cryonics cases did...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:16 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: seed technology for brain reconstruction?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10818
Re: seed technology for brain reconstruction?
Absolutely. It's really hard to tell how long it will take because it depends heavily on exponential progress in AI. But I do know it will take a very long time even assuming continued exponential progress. We wouldn't have any hope at all of solving it in a reasonable timeframe if it was linear pro...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:05 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: seed technology for brain reconstruction?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10818
Re: seed technology for brain reconstruction?
Good to see progress from different groups. I think that within about 60 years, we should have massively parallel 3D printers. By that, I mean thousands of very small robotic arms simultaneously 3D printing a single object. 60 years or so after that, such devices will have evolved to the point where...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Robotic surgery
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11197
Robotic surgery
Removing a brain from a skull is rather difficult to do without damage. It's a problem that nobody else cares about. Scientists doing research don't care if they cause some damage because they can just use the undamaged tissue. A pathologist performing an autopsy doesn't care if they cause damage ei...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 11:53 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Life Extension as Backup Plan
- Replies: 16
- Views: 43731
Re: Life Extension as Backup Plan
1. It's serious. 2. No, you do not seem to be capable. The only rational arguments allowed would be to point to a consensus position held by all the leading experts on the topic at hand. Diet is tougher to do science on, so the consensus might not be as strong as in other areas of science, but it wi...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 9:34 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Life Extension as Backup Plan
- Replies: 16
- Views: 43731
Re: Life Extension as Backup Plan
The only people allowed to disagree with scientific consensus on a particular issue are a handful of other experts in that specific field. Nobody else is allowed to question them. This is not blind trust; it's rational trust. Why would I even think about believing a non-expert? This discussion is ab...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:15 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Life Extension as Backup Plan
- Replies: 16
- Views: 43731
Re: Life Extension as Backup Plan
One of my latest pages was sort of written with you in mind: https://oregoncryo.com/scientificBasis.html The scientific method specifically depends on trusting the consensus of groups of experts. I know I won't change your mind, but I also won't tolerate irrational posts here. Your irrational posts ...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:35 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Cryonics vs. Aldehyde
- Replies: 0
- Views: 16331
Cryonics vs. Aldehyde
Another new page
https://oregoncryo.com/cryonicsVsAldehyde.html
https://oregoncryo.com/cryonicsVsAldehyde.html
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 4:57 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Scientific Basis
- Replies: 0
- Views: 16237
Scientific Basis
A new page has been posted on our website:
https://oregoncryo.com/scientificBasis.html
https://oregoncryo.com/scientificBasis.html
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 8:02 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: AI Correlation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 15999
Re: AI Correlation
I had never seen much need to recruit the masses. I guess I've changed my mind somewhat. But as the degree of separation increases, my incentive falls off sharply. I might start to reorganize my efforts around those close to me.
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:40 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Max More post about Organizational Capability
- Replies: 0
- Views: 19239
Max More post about Organizational Capability
Max More just made a long post about organizational capability: https://biostasis.substack.com/p/critical-questions-about-patient He lists the two core capabilities that an organization must possess: quality preservation and longevity. He then gives some great historical background on a variety of f...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:10 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: AI Correlation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 15999
Re: AI Correlation
This particular forum is designed so that anyone can peruse it years later. The discussions persist and are easy to find. Starman regularly reads this forum.
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 8:11 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: AI Correlation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 15999
AI Correlation
The most likely revival scenario is digital rather than physical. This is also mostly likely to happen concurrently with the Great Upload, when all living humans are also uploading over a fairly short time period of less than a few decades. But why would a future society want to pay to upload underf...
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:37 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Life Extension as Backup Plan
- Replies: 16
- Views: 43731
Re: Life Extension as Backup Plan
I think we have a high percentage of independent rebellious types in our group. I'm not interested in stupid arguments about experts not being expert, or the scientific method not being good enough. Those arguments are fallacious and they are a distraction. I won't allow that kind of noise on this f...
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 9:09 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Life Extension as Backup Plan
- Replies: 16
- Views: 43731
Re: Life Extension as Backup Plan
Dennis, your position is irrational. I won't even address it with specific details because it's unworthy of a response. I will instead listen to the consensus of the experts. You are simply not qualified to interpret the evidence. You have quite the hubris to think that you are smarter than the expe...
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 8:37 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Life Extension as Backup Plan
- Replies: 16
- Views: 43731
Re: Life Extension as Backup Plan
After months of studying these latest longevity topics, I have decided that they are mostly fads that lack evidence. I don't have the expertise to actually make this judgement on my own, so what I've really been doing it trying to figure out what the consensus is among the true experts. It took me a...
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 7:55 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: What's happening at our facility
- Replies: 0
- Views: 24598
What's happening at our facility
Our new CT scanner has been installed and we have been trained. It's an OmniTom, which gets 16 slices instead of the 8 that our old CereTom got. Oregon Body Gift has now also been licensed as a NARRO, so it can legally accept whole body donations from the public for research. I just got the architec...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 10:04 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Monitoring and rapid response to Prevent Unattended Death
- Replies: 11
- Views: 40326
Re: Monitoring and rapid response to Prevent Unattended Death
We are getting closer every day to being able to take those kinds of phone calls for local patients. It really doesn't do any good at all if you don't have a local advocate. If we get a phone call, we would have nobody to send to check on you unless you had a local advocate. The solution is going to...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 4:47 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Monitoring and rapid response to Prevent Unattended Death
- Replies: 11
- Views: 40326
Re: Monitoring and rapid response to Prevent Unattended Death
My plan is to be surrounded by multiple people at all times when I'm old. I'm hoping this will be supplemented by much better technology because I'm still probably 35 years out. But my plan is expensive -- very expensive. I'm talking about private nurses around the clock in addition to various other...
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 3:44 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Forum is up again
- Replies: 8
- Views: 47931
Re: Forum is up again
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