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SparkyDeep Space exploration will be most successful through robots, not people. It's much cheaper.
Back to cryonics, this is a YouTube video on cryonics originally submitted to this thread by The Anticult:
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I agree on the robots/AI (and I'm not being sarcastic this time). Of course, deep space SETTLEMENT is a different matter ;)
Well anyways, just to set the record straight, I'm not signed up with any cryonics organization: that means you can't accuse me of being part of the "cult," nor can you hold Alcor/CI/etc accountable for my actions. I know that doesn't necessarily sound believable coming from an anonymous account like mine ("enoonsti" is "it's no one" spelled backwards, minus the spaces and apostrophe); however, I'll be revealing my identity in short time because, well, that's one of the requirements in a competition I'm entering.
Also, let me stress that there's a difference between what Melody Maxim is doing, and what you guys are doing. Melody - as far as I can tell - is genuinely interested in cryonics for the purpose of saving lives (perhaps even her own life) but is genuinely dismayed at how it's currently being practiced. I may not agree with her on everything - just like I don't agree with everything other cryonicists say - but it is better than some laymen here cherry-picking information in an ode to the confirmation bias. I've read your guys' posts on other topics and I agree in those areas.... but here.... I'd have to say you're off the mark and - despite your best intentions - you're not helping much. Again, people from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Cambridge, and more have supported cryonics. Is it possible that there's gray area that you guys are missing, instead of the black-and-white presented here?
For whatever it's worth, I've read all of the posts in this thread, the book Frozen (which I'm assuming some here did not read), and every other significant piece of criticism out there (my upcoming video Glimpses of Frustration immediately deals with that Penn and Teller clip). The point I'll be making soon is not entirely about cryonics, but more about society's hypocritical attitude towards death. I understand that this may sound a bit loopy without exposition, but a childishly simplistic view of death is at the root of many societal problems. So obviously, I'll be trying to argue that in due time.