Berkeley people have it good. At least they are doing this together. Imagine being a Berkeley person at heart and being in a completely anti-Berkeley environment.
I thought lvl 10 wasn't about that anymore, but you may be right
Level 10's more ground-level explanation should be something like "If I say "There's not a lion across the river." I'm getting downvoted and if I say "There's a lion across the river" I'm getting upvoted?"
I'm trying to not use the expression "trying to mind control you". But stated this way it's not that different from lvl 3. Maybe lvl 10 is lvl 3 + an explicit selection mechanism such as upvotes or downvotes. But one could argue that such incentives exist regardless of how explicit they are.
Thanks for your service, Mingyuan. 10/10.
Does the fact that Alcor is co-owner create difficulties if you want to change cryonics provider at some point? Example: new tech (e.g. aldehyde stabilized cryopreservation) gets offered somewhere else but not at Alcor, so you want to change.
Nvm, I received confirmation and the answer was yes :)
From the Alcor Associate Member page:
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From what is written I gather that setting up the PayPal payment is enough to become an associate member and compiling the form is not necessary, correct?
Btw, thanks A LOT for this sequence. I currently live in Italy, my home country, but this is still HUGELY useful for me. I plan to move to the US eventually and even if I decide to postpone my real subscription for when I'll be there and I will have an actual income, this sequence will guide my decisions moving forward.
I dont't know actually (for both questions). And I'm not sure how many billionaires like this there are.
The thing that's very unclear to me is why SENS has so little funding if that's framework is now consensus
Because they choose the most neglected (long-term/difficult/high-risk high-reward) projects within the Hallmark framework (I talked extensively about this in my posts if you want to take a peek).
The result is more paranoia ,_,