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		<title>Steve Jobs&#8217; morbid glorification of death</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-morbid-glorification-of-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Steve Jobs, death is such a great benefit to mankind that it would have to be invented if it did not exist: No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don&#8217;t want to &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-morbid-glorification-of-death/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Alcor member profile of Aschwin de Wolf</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/08/18/alcor-member-profile-of-aschwin-de-wolf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aschwin de Wolf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cairn Idun]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Neural Cryobiology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of Cryonics magazine features my member profile. This profile was written by Cairn Idun, a long-time Alcor member and cryonics activist who is currently known for organizing the annual asset preservation and teens and twenties meetings. To &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/08/18/alcor-member-profile-of-aschwin-de-wolf/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is a life worth starting? Some personal views</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/12/27/is-a-life-worth-starting-some-personal-views/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts & Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antinatalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Benatar]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pessimism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For life—the life of any sentient creature—to be worth living, there must, as Robert Ettinger has often said, be a preponderance of satisfaction over dissatisfaction. If this overall slant toward good rather than bad is maintained, it seems reasonable that &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/12/27/is-a-life-worth-starting-some-personal-views/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Review of &#8216;Better Never to Have Been&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/12/20/review-of-better-never-to-have-been/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Perry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arthur Schopenhauer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human Enhancement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review of  Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence by David Benatar. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006 “Would that I had never been born” is a lament sometimes voiced in the depth of misfortune, a &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/12/20/review-of-better-never-to-have-been/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Non-existence is hard to do</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/12/15/non-existence-is-hard-to-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Ligotti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A review of  contemporary antinatalist writings Originally published in Cryonics, 2nd Quarter, 2010 (PDF) “Coming into existence is bad in part because it invariably leads to the harm of ceasing to exist.” David Benatar “If they could get a corpse &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/12/15/non-existence-is-hard-to-do/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>David Stove and the Plato cult</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/11/07/david-stove-and-the-plato-cult/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Nozick]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Stove&#8217;s book The Plato Cult and Other Philosophical Follies is a remarkable collection of essays. As a staunch positivist ,the author is not impressed with most of what constitutes &#8220;philosophy&#8221; (or the quality of our thinking in general). As &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/11/07/david-stove-and-the-plato-cult/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Stuart Gordon&#8217;s Re-Animator and the science of cryonics</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/09/08/stuart-gordons-re-animator-and-the-science-of-cryonics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/09/08/stuart-gordons-re-animator-and-the-science-of-cryonics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Veronique Struis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ben Best]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Stuart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Fahy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisbon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motel X]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portugal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yuri Pichugin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend Motel X, the Lisbon (Portugal) International Horror festival, had its third anniversary. It is one of the smaller international horror festivals around, but this year they managed to have both Stuart Gordon, director of several Lovecraft adaptions, &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/09/08/stuart-gordons-re-animator-and-the-science-of-cryonics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re all alone</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/05/29/youre-all-alone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 04:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fritz Leiber]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In &#8216;The Rise of Scientific Philosophy&#8217; the logical positivist philosopher Hans Reichenbach writes: In Leibniz&#8217;s philosophy the rational side of modern science has found its most radical representation. The successful use of mathematical methods for the description of nature made &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/05/29/youre-all-alone/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Less wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/03/06/less-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/03/06/less-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Less Wrong is a community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality: Over the last decades, new experiments have changed science&#8217;s picture of the way we think &#8211; the ways we succeed or fail to obtain the truth, &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/03/06/less-wrong/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Avoiding Karl Popper</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/02/06/avoiding-karl-popper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The philosopher Karl Popper has published on a wide variety of subjects but his most lasting contribution is his answer to the problem of induction by drawing attention to the asymmetry between verification and falsification. A theory can never be &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/02/06/avoiding-karl-popper/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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