> On 26 Mar 2018, at 03:56, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 6:07 PM, Lawrence Crowell > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > > > I am more interested in the graph theoretic issues with NP-completeness > > >for other reasons than I am in this question of uploading minds into > > >computers. The latter I think is largely science fiction. > > Of course its science fiction, its fiction because because nobody has yet > come back from the world of liquid nitrogen and its scientific because you > have to go to the speculative interior of Black Holes to try to find a > fundamental physical reason it might not work. > > > I am more interested in questions of quantum information and the > compatibility of quantum mechanics and general relativity. > > Those are indeed interesting questions, but they are very deep and an > answer to them might not be available for a hundred years. wouldn't you like > a chance of knowing what those answers are? > > > My reasoning for not doing this is not about being "deader," but in terms > of money. To be honest this borders on sounding like a scam, and I can > imagine that con-men have concocted this scheme to part people from their > money. Sure it might be based on a bit of science and technology, but I could > easily see this as being some sort of scam. > > If cryonics a scam its not a very good one because its been around for half a > century and nobody has gotten rich off it. Perhaps Alcor should stop saying > there are no guarantees and telling people that getting cryogenically > preserved is the second worst thing that could happen to you and instead do > what religion does and insist there is no way it could fail. If they didn't > care about honesty and did that from the first preservation back in the 1960s > Alcor might be bigger than Scientology by now, maybe even bigger than the > Vatican.
That is a good point … for Alcor today. Yes. Bruno > > John K Clark > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list > <https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
