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Title: If cryonics becomes really popular Post by: remotemass on January 13, 2014, 12:33:20 PM Imagine cryonics enhancements proves it is possible to bring back life to a body that was once dead. And that there are a few examples worldwide of people that have been dead for a few years and come back to be alive again with the help of cryonics and sophisticate technology.
People will start selling their assets and convert them to a cryptocurrency in order they have prospects of recovering their belongings once they come out of death. You may even be able to scan your brain and put a highly compressed form of its digital representation - that relies on the potential of processing power for data storage - on the blockchain. But you will need to have your belongings in cryptocurrency so that no one gets hold on your belongings while you are dead. That means bitcoin price could reach millions in a few years time if cryonics and/or chemical brain preservation becomes really popular. Imagine... the price of bitcoin going to the roof and real estate (and other kinds of assets) prices falling dramatically. Wow! :o http://oi41.tinypic.com/f4i7n6.jpg Title: Re: If cryonics becomes really popular Post by: BTC-TK on January 13, 2014, 01:08:59 PM The moment you freeze yourself your body is shattered into millions of little pieces, it will never be possible to reconstruct, only pseudointellectuals think of freezing themselves.
Title: Re: If cryonics becomes really popular Post by: btbrae on January 13, 2014, 01:10:29 PM And that there are a few examples worldwide of people that have been dead for a few years and come back to be alive again with the help of cryonics and sophisticate technology. Not sure if serious? Title: Re: If cryonics becomes really popular Post by: BTC-TK on January 13, 2014, 01:17:57 PM Just thought that I'd quote my post since we're on the topic of cryogenics and BTC.
Reminds me of that scene in Star Trek where they fly across different galaxies and come around an old cryogenics facility somewhere around where Earth use to be, naturally they begin resurrecting the frozen people and curing them from their fatal diseases and one of them happens to be a lawyer. When the lawyer wakes up his immediate reaction is "Where are the banks? Call my financial manager! Where are my investments? I must be a trillionaire by now!" and the crew has no idea of what a bank, an investment or even a financial manager is, because in their time they have an atomic accumulator that can create any object that you wish out of thin air without any need for a job so naturally people don't have to work, create corporations, invest or do any of that nonsense, since anyone can wish and get anything their heart pleases immediately. Bitcoin is a technology on a similar scale, it changes how we think on a fundamental level, 3D printing might be a couple hundreds of years short of printing golden porches with hookers in the back seat but it still appears to fall under the same category as Bitcoin. Title: Re: If cryonics becomes really popular Post by: olloman on January 13, 2014, 01:21:37 PM unluckily it is impossible to achieve true immortality...the only working method would be the digitalization of our personality, but again, that would just be a perfect copy of us, not our truly selves, so it does not count as immortality...so yours would just be a donation to a digital copy of yourself, and you could just donate your btcs to someone truly alive and in need...btw if you are interested in the topic, there is a nice TED talk about this, just browse their channel
And that there are a few examples worldwide of people that have been dead for a few years and come back to be alive again with the help of cryonics and sophisticate technology. Not sure if serious? he was using the present tense but referring to a future scenario, just look at the context. edit: better format edit 2: obviously I'm not considering eventual divine intervention of some sort, if you believe in those things Title: Re: If cryonics becomes really popular Post by: wiggi on January 13, 2014, 02:26:32 PM But you will need to have your belongings in cryptocurrency so that no one gets hold on your belongings while you are dead. And cryonics could finally become popular because of bitcoin and the ability to preserve your belongings.That means bitcoin price could reach millions in a few years time if cryonics and/or chemical brain preservation becomes really popular. Title: Re: If cryonics becomes really popular Post by: cr1776 on January 13, 2014, 04:41:31 PM The moment you freeze yourself your body is shattered into millions of little pieces, it will never be possible to reconstruct, only pseudointellectuals think of freezing themselves. They don't 'freeze' you. Alcor vitrifies you to avoid being "shattered". Some of the "pseudointellectuals" include Ralph Merkle of the "Merkle tree", used in bitcoin among man other things. Marvin Minsky, who started the MIT AI lab among many others are involved with Alcor. Eric Drexler (nano tech pioneer) has written positively and may be a member. Many others who are not pseudo-intellectuals. You sound like uninformed people when they talk about bitcoin. If you are buried or cremated, the odds are zero. With cryonics, they could be 1 in 1000 or even 30%. No one knows yet, but the odds are non-zero. You should do some reading here: http://www.alcor.org/Library/index.html |
