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by jordansparks
Sun Oct 13, 2024 9:51 pm
Forum: Forum
Topic: London Futurists podcast episode
Replies: 0
Views: 32

London Futurists podcast episode

I was a guest on the London Futurists Podcast in August: https://londonfuturists.buzzsprout.com/2028982/episodes/15517037-the-low-cost-future-of-preserving-brains-with-jordan-sparks I would also recommend listening to the related episodes featuring Emil Kendziorra, Max More, and Ken Hayworth which a...
by jordansparks
Sun Oct 13, 2024 9:21 pm
Forum: Forum
Topic: Registration disabled temporarily due to spammers
Replies: 4
Views: 4348

Re: Registration disabled temporarily due to spammers

The main new countermeasure is that all new user posts will require approval. If I have to waste too much time deleting those, then I might just require new users to call the office to get added.
by jordansparks
Sun Oct 13, 2024 9:07 pm
Forum: Forum
Topic: Registration disabled temporarily due to spammers
Replies: 4
Views: 4348

Re: Registration disabled temporarily due to spammers

Sorry about the spam. Working on a permanent fix.
by jordansparks
Wed Oct 02, 2024 4:36 pm
Forum: Forum
Topic: Fruit fly brain upload
Replies: 0
Views: 3523

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...
by jordansparks
Thu Jul 25, 2024 8:05 pm
Forum: Forum
Topic: about case reports
Replies: 2
Views: 9987

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.
by jordansparks
Tue Jul 23, 2024 7:16 pm
Forum: Forum
Topic: Registration disabled temporarily due to spammers
Replies: 4
Views: 4348

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.
by jordansparks
Tue Jul 23, 2024 6:10 am
Forum: Forum
Topic: Kurzweil uploads
Replies: 2
Views: 5150

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...
by jordansparks
Sun Jun 30, 2024 8:38 am
Forum: Forum
Topic: Kurzweil uploads
Replies: 2
Views: 5150

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...
by jordansparks
Mon Jun 03, 2024 4:20 pm
Forum: Forum
Topic: Laura Deming starts Cradle
Replies: 1
Views: 5537

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...
by jordansparks
Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:16 am
Forum: Forum
Topic: Fallout and 3 Body Problem
Replies: 0
Views: 9943

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...
by jordansparks
Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:10 pm
Forum: Forum
Topic: clarification for realistic life extension.
Replies: 5
Views: 15245

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.
by jordansparks
Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:04 pm
Forum: Forum
Topic: Remote cases and membership
Replies: 1
Views: 8784

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...
by jordansparks
Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:38 pm
Forum: Forum
Topic: Robotic surgery
Replies: 2
Views: 11882

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...
by jordansparks
Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:26 am
Forum: Forum
Topic: clarification for realistic life extension.
Replies: 5
Views: 15245

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...
by jordansparks
Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:16 am
Forum: Forum
Topic: seed technology for brain reconstruction?
Replies: 3
Views: 11587

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...
by jordansparks
Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:05 pm
Forum: Forum
Topic: seed technology for brain reconstruction?
Replies: 3
Views: 11587

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...
by jordansparks
Mon Feb 05, 2024 7:54 pm
Forum: Forum
Topic: Robotic surgery
Replies: 2
Views: 11882

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...
by jordansparks
Thu Feb 01, 2024 11:53 am
Forum: Forum
Topic: Life Extension as Backup Plan
Replies: 16
Views: 45780

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...
by jordansparks
Thu Feb 01, 2024 9:34 am
Forum: Forum
Topic: Life Extension as Backup Plan
Replies: 16
Views: 45780

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...
by jordansparks
Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:15 pm
Forum: Forum
Topic: Life Extension as Backup Plan
Replies: 16
Views: 45780

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 ...
by jordansparks
Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:35 pm
Forum: Forum
Topic: Cryonics vs. Aldehyde
Replies: 0
Views: 16921

Cryonics vs. Aldehyde

by jordansparks
Thu Jan 25, 2024 4:57 pm
Forum: Forum
Topic: Scientific Basis
Replies: 0
Views: 16830

Scientific Basis

A new page has been posted on our website:
https://oregoncryo.com/scientificBasis.html
by jordansparks
Sat Jan 06, 2024 8:02 am
Forum: Forum
Topic: AI Correlation
Replies: 4
Views: 16729

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.
by jordansparks
Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:40 pm
Forum: Forum
Topic: Max More post about Organizational Capability
Replies: 0
Views: 19804

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...
by jordansparks
Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:10 pm
Forum: Forum
Topic: AI Correlation
Replies: 4
Views: 16729

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.
by jordansparks
Wed Jan 03, 2024 8:11 pm
Forum: Forum
Topic: AI Correlation
Replies: 4
Views: 16729

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...
by jordansparks
Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:37 pm
Forum: Forum
Topic: Life Extension as Backup Plan
Replies: 16
Views: 45780

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...
by jordansparks
Mon Dec 25, 2023 9:09 am
Forum: Forum
Topic: Life Extension as Backup Plan
Replies: 16
Views: 45780

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...
by jordansparks
Mon Dec 25, 2023 8:37 am
Forum: Forum
Topic: Life Extension as Backup Plan
Replies: 16
Views: 45780

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...
by jordansparks
Wed Dec 20, 2023 7:55 pm
Forum: Forum
Topic: What's happening at our facility
Replies: 0
Views: 25167

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...