#cryonics

[magicforghosts]

I don't post here often, but I have an agenda called "everyone I stumble across needs to listen to Red Valley " and I thought people here might vibe with it 63ve7ge7dh7ev

[redvalleypod]

Oh, typo in the last post. It’s 27 episodes.

To celebrate reaching a million downloads, While You Were Hypersleeping 3 Episode 1 is out…

🚨 Now! 🚨

pod.link/redvalley

[moral-autism]

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Nectome’s preservation services employ a new method for whole-body, whole-brain, human end-of-life preservation for the purpose of future re

Facts about Nectome which may appeal to people:

It seems better at connectome preservation than competitors.

You don't need to buy life insurance. (This is because Nectome does not do emergency response, they do post-euthanasia preservation of terminally ill clients.)

They are willing to destroy customer's bodies if they seem on track to lose custody of those bodies and that's what the customer wants.

You don't have to pick body management preferences on signup.

Their preservation uses a much higher temperature than traditional cryonics does, such that preserved bodies could be stored in permafrost if necessary.

The bodies could even spend a bit of time at room temperature to allow for an open-casket funeral, apparently.

Edit: Because of how they do things (no emergency post-mortem preservations, you need to die onsite), you can sign up for Nectome and stay in the organ donor registry!

[ohowthemightyhavefallen]

had to draw this

[sinister-monologue]

Read the article here.

I saw this and thought, haha, RedVal reference. And then I read it, how a company with a goofy-ass name is promising to freeze a body for 50, 100, 1000 years and folks are like yeah! Like time travel!

And it just. Really does make you stop and stare at the wall for a while. What are you expecting to find when you're resurrected? Who will be there to greet you? What, if you don't mind my asking, would be the point?

(If you can't read the article, try Incognito mode, or on PC do a quick Copy All/Paste into a doc)

[tineid]

I made this meme to counter the argument "it doesn't matter how low the chance is that cryonics will succeed, because the chance is greater than zero" that I kept seeing on Reddit.

(But it got deleted from every sub where I posted it)

[dnschmidt]

Thawing Out Tim

Tim opened his eyes as a robot pulled him from the cryonics tube. "You brought me back!" he gasped. "It actually worked. You can actually developed a way to bring back preserved people. This must be a far-flung future utopia, the apogee of human civilization!"

The robot shook its head. "Just missed it, I'm afraid. Utopia's over. Blown to bits last Thursday."

"It's over?" he moaned. "How long did it last?"

The robot drummed its fingers on the side of its head, thinking and clinking. "Hmm… About three and a half weeks, I'd say."

He rubbed his brow. "Your perfect society couldn't keep a utopia going for even a month?"

The robot scowled. "How long did your utopia last, smart guy? Oh, that's right, you never had one!"

"Fair point," he said, sighing. He looked around the vast room at all the robots working on cryonics patients. "So, what's the world like now? What's happening out there?"

The robot shrugged. "Not much left. Most folks died during the global thermonuclear trade war. That's why us robots are thawing out everyone who was frozen back in the 21st century. You're going to help us reboot society."

"You're starting over? With… with us?" He looked over his shoulder, gazing at his cryonics tube. "Put me back in."

[theunlitpath]

The resurrection potion in Terra Ignota is kind of a stand-in for cryonics.

Of course the Brillists would want to make cryonics available to everyone. It would relieve the urgency of their mission. It would make war unnecessary. Its absence from the story is hard to explain in-universe.

The resurrection potion solves the same problems that cryonics would: It provides hope that when the Last Enemy is defeated, the present generation will also be saved.