What do you think of Cryonics?

[shindig]

A couple years ago I went to a talk from a national geographic photographer who mentioned these arctic ground squirrels that if you pierce their brain with a needle while they're awake, they die instantly, but if you do it while they're hibernating, they'll wake up normal.

Found an article about their brains: What the Supercool Arctic Ground Squirrel Teaches Us about the Brain's Resilience - Scientific American

As their lungs and hearts slow, the rivers of blood flowing through their bodies dwindle and their core body temperatures plummet, dipping below the freezing point of water. Electrical signals zipping along crisscrossing neural highways vanish in many areas of the brain. Seven months later the squirrels wake up and return to the surface—famished, eager to mate and perfectly healthy.

Hibernation devastates the ground squirrel brain, wilting thousands if not millions of vital connections between brain cells, known as synapses. But its brain has evolved impressive resilience, repeatedly renewing itself at astonishing speeds, like a forest erupting through the scorched earth in a matter of days.

Although scientists have documented structural changes to cells in the hibernating squirrel's brain, they do not yet understand what triggers the brain's recovery. Thomas Arendt of the University of Leipzig in Germany thinks the answer may involve a protein named tau. The more synapses the rodents' brains lost during hibernation, the more hyperphosphorylated tau accrued in their neurons.

The talk was mainly about the unknown scientific value of rare/endangered/extinct species, and how each human generation is further removed from nature than their parents and each generation before them, among other things.

 

[mpbiz]

Although scientists have documented structural changes to cells in the hibernating squirrel's brain, they do not yet understand what triggers the brain's recovery. Thomas Arendt of the University of Leipzig in Germany thinks the answer may involve a protein named tau. The more synapses the rodents' brains lost during hibernation, the more hyperphosphorylated tau accrued in their neurons.

inb4 TAU Protein available at Walmart.

 

[lukep]

$200k in 100 years with inflation won't be much...

Haha, entire currencies rarely last 100 years. The current dollar just turned 100 and I suspect it won't ever see 110.

there is absolutely no reason to expect CPU transistor growth to grow exponentially forever...

Doesn't need to. We're just talking about 35 years left, less than we've been making microprocessors for so far.

Not to mention, you could possibly have zillions of transistors and still not get an AI if they aren't hooked up right or have the right software to make something like that.

AI should be able to handle that part if we're not up for it. They've got some pretty creative AI now that writes code on it's own today.

But seriously, you should look up exponential curves in nature, and see what happens.

No need. I've been invested in multiple bitcoin spikes.

Lets not turn this into a blockchain thread though.

Not gonna happen... Talking seriously about that on WF is like walking into a gay bar and shouting "death to faggots" at the top of your lungs. :jester:

 

[acidie]

AI should be able to handle that part if we're not up for it. They've got some pretty creative AI now that writes code on it's own today.

And who will build this AI that builds other AIs?

Not gonna happen... Talking seriously about that on WF is like walking into a gay bar and shouting "death to faggots" at the top of your lungs. :jester:

It's not wickedfire that is incapable of having a rational and logical debate about bitcoin, its your religious zealotry about the topic.

The blockchain has some serious flaws but that doesn't make it useless.

Accept the above and people will be more likely to engage with you vs calling you an idiot and posting gifs.

 

[Kiopa_Matt]

No need. I've been invested in multiple bitcoin spikes.

Not gonna happen... Talking seriously about that on WF is like walking into a gay bar and shouting "death to faggots" at the top of your lungs. :jester:

Where the fuck is my $1 million per-bitcoin, like you promised?

 

[cardine]

And who will build this AI that builds other AIs?

Me...

 

[Midas Touch]

I personally would put more stock into AI research and finding a way to transfer our thought patterns into a computer.

Then once Androids are perfected have those patterns uploaded into it.

Of course Synthetic Crystal technology will have had to be perfected by then. Do not want lack of electricity or EMP's to erase us.

The freezing process does too much damage to the cells of the body for it to be even messed with in my opinion.

Having a Robo Dick that is fully functional would be my main concern. I mean really, what fun would life be if you could not fuck and have orgasms. lol

 

[WickedJoe]

I personally would put more stock into AI research and finding a way to transfer our thought patterns into a computer.

Then once Androids are perfected have those patterns uploaded into it.

Of course Synthetic Crystal technology will have had to be perfected by then. Do not want lack of electricity or EMP's to erase us.

Do you feel you'd live on through a copy? I know many who like the idea of being made into a digital copy but for me I don't care about it much because for some subjective reason I feel the continuity of consciousness is important and I could care less about copies. You wont feel, see, smell, etc what the copy does.. you'd be 100% dead.

 

[vgeek]

The 6th Day (2000) - IMDb

 

[mattseh]

Umm...cost of resources is only going to increase.

Why?

 

[3nyaw]

Why?

because girls