/sci/ - Science & Math

I sort of assume Johnson is a money-grabbing hack, but Mike Darwin's description of the Alcor facilities is kinda scary:

http://chronopause.com/index.php/2011/05/29/a-visit-to-alcor/

And I can't trust Max More. I can't trust any of the transhumanists who got their names changed in the 80's :)

But seriously, read the case reports and make an informed decision.

>>3627462

>What about record&destroy? Or merely signal&destroy&recover/reconstruct?

Record, signal, consume sounds ok. Still that's a lot of nanomachines. Idea: Get your assembler of choice to make a layer of diamond with little diamond knives perpendicular to the surface powered by Drexler's electrostatic motors, and some trash chutes and sensors. Scan, then turn on the motors for a few microseconds, consume a bit of the tissue, scan again, continue consuming, until the brain has become assembler feedstock and you get a total map.

Sounds crazy? Same here.

>Yes, I think that's the most viable option, however I have no idea about how they would handle this in the future (do people that apply for cryonics leave prefered revival options or some way of deciding what to do? For example, instructions along the lines of: if SIM is possible, but other types of revival are not, wait 50 years and restore in SIM if other types don't exist. Such instructions would be needed to prevent indefinite waiting times which would be equivalent to death.).
Personally, I would prefer SIM myself, but I could see why some other people would prefer to be thawed.

I think most hope they'll be thawed and put together, but yeah, I'd prefer SIM. I can imagine a lot of people being varying degrees of mad after finding out that they're in a computer. Then there's that whole thing about the neuropatients who hoped they'd have their bodies regrown... Though nobody bought into that, did they?

>>3594511

The warehouse where the Cryonics Institute stores its patients.