rlpowell

I don't know how to keep this topic away from http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/ , so I'm just going to exhort everyone to try to keep this about rationality and not about politics as usual. I myself have strong opinions here, which I'm deliberately squelching. So I got to thinking about the issue...

I'm thinking that it should be possible to decide when to sleep based on reduced performance. Can anyone suggest a tool for that purpose? Perhaps some reaction time testing software? I guess I would have to track myself during the day to make a baseline, which is fine. But without...

So being signed up for cryonics shifts my views on life and death, as might be expected. In particular, it focuses my views of success on the preservation of my brain (everything else too, just in case, but especially the brain). This means, obviously, not just the lump of meat...

The first one: [EDIT: Found it! Thanks to RolfAndreassen] This is turning out to be *really* hard to find; I would have made a point of saving it if I'd expected no-one else to have heard of it. I need to make a page of all the weird singularity/transhuman fiction...