Tag Archives: Futurism

Cryonics, trans-temporal communism and future squatters

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Aschwin de Wolf

Cryonics advocate Eugen Leitl puts forward some hard-hitting and thought-provoking observations about cryonics (reminiscent of Mike Darwin’s more recent thoughts on the subject): Cryonics, like Natural Selection, or the theories of General and Special Relativity, is core-smashing in character, and … Continue reading →

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Cryonics and fear of the future

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Aschwin de Wolf

To people who have made cryonics arrangements the biggest mystery remains why more people have not made the same decision. The most obvious answer remains that cryonics has not been proven to “work” yet. People who give this answer usually … Continue reading →

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Peter Thiel: Utopian Pessimist

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Aschwin de Wolf

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 … Continue reading →

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The singularity is not near

Posted on November 13, 2009 by Aschwin de Wolf

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 … Continue reading →

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