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	<title>Depressed Metabolism &#187; Society</title>
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	<description>Cryonics, Life Extension, Anti-Aging, Health, Science, Neuroscience, Death, Liberty</description>
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		<title>The ethics of cryonics interference</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/02/23/the-ethics-of-cryonics-interference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bioethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cryostasis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Do Not Resuscitate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hostile Relatives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Advocates of human cryopreservation argue that death is not an event but a process. Cryonics patients are stabilized at low temperatures in anticipation of a second medical opinion in the future. This raises an important ethical issue. What is the moral status of cryonics patients? It is not possible to argue that cryonics patients will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biological enhancement and evolution</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/02/19/biological-enhancement-and-evolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony de Jasay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bayesian Optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Fahy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael R. Rose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Cavanaugh]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the March 2010 issue of Reason magazine Tim Cavanaugh writes about the rift between transhumanists who favor biological enhancement versus those who favor non-biological &#8220;mechanical&#8221; enhancement:

These days transhumanists talk a lot about subcutaneous data ports, permanent immersion in virtual reality, even extending male life spans by removing the gonads. But they spend noticeably little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The case for cryonics</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/02/10/the-case-for-cryonics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/02/10/the-case-for-cryonics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bio-nanotechnology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biogerontology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cryobiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ouroboros]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pascal's Wager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rational Choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rejuvenation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The biology-of-aging blog Ouroboros has posted a skeptical post about cryonics that is highly representative of how most biological scientists respond to questions about cryonics. The discussion of cryonics is largely reduced to a discussion of the technical feasibility of suspended animation and resuscitation requirements. But suspended animation is not cryonics. Cryonics should be discussed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Thiel: Utopian Pessimist</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/01/25/peter-thiel-utopian-pessimist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/01/25/peter-thiel-utopian-pessimist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Futurism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Thiel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singularity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transhumanism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Thiel, one of the few original minds in the life extension and accelerating-technological-change community, is featured in a short interview at Wired. Thiel seems to be aware of the limitations of extrapolation of trends:

We’ve been living in a unique period of accelerating technological progress. We’ve gone from horses to cars to planes to rockets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The singularity is not near</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/11/13/the-singularity-is-not-near/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/11/13/the-singularity-is-not-near/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Futurism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singularity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skepticism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Singularity skeptic Mark Plus drew my attention to the following blog post. The author writes that:

Chalmers’ (and other advocates of the possibility of a Singularity) argument starts off with the simple observation that machines have gained computing power at an extraordinary rate over the past several years, a trend that one can extrapolate to 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>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/11/07/david-stove-and-the-plato-cult/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts & Living]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Common Sense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Stove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hans Reichenbach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Horror Victorianorum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Popper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logical Empiricism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logical Positivism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Positivism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Nozick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Bartley]]></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 Stove laments in the preface, &#8220;there is something fearfully wrong with typical philosophical theories.&#8221; But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;yuck factor&#8221; and cryonics</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/10/05/the-yuck-factor-and-cryonics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/10/05/the-yuck-factor-and-cryonics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alcor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bioconservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Kass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medical Myopia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neuropreservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisdom of Repugance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yuck Factor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/?p=2561</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In sensationalized accounts of cryonics, explicit descriptions of cryonics procedures, and that of neuropreservation in particular, are used to invoke a negative response in the reader.  Some bioconservatives have argued that disgust experienced in response to certain ideas and practices is &#8220;the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason&#8217;s power fully to articulate it&#8221; (Leon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Max More on global warming</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/08/09/max-more-on-global-warming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/08/09/max-more-on-global-warming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extropy Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Futurism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Max More]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transhumanism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/?p=2458</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Max More, founder of the Extropy Institute, and one of the few futurist thinkers with a solid understanding of the philosophy of science, outlines his current views on the global warming controversy after being identified as a &#8220;denier&#8221; and &#8220;anti-science&#8221; by  some of his (transhumanist) critics:

We skeptics (okay, “planetary traitors” if you prefer) actually hold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five important books on empiricist philosophy</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/08/04/five-important-books-on-empiricist-philosophy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/08/04/five-important-books-on-empiricist-philosophy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alfred J. Ayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Analytic Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berlin Circle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bertrand Russell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Hume]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empiricism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hans Reichenbach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logical Empiricism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logical Positivism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nassim Nicholas Taleb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudolf Carnap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skeptical Empiricism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vienna Circle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most contemporary philosophers and social scientists have little interest and understanding of logic or the physical sciences and  therefore have little to offer to those who want to understand the philosophical aspects of knowledge. The following five books have been written by thinkers who have a great respect for science and the importance of empirical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The scientific conception of the world</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/07/05/the-scientific-conception-of-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/07/05/the-scientific-conception-of-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hans Hahn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hans Reichenbach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logical Empiricism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logical Positivism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Otto Neurath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudolf Carnap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vienna Circle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wiener Kreis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle (Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung: Der Wiener Kreis)

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