I sometimes worry about a scenario where Sam Altman's kid gets cancer or Xi Jinping gets AGI-pilled right before getting a terminal prognosis. What might someone in power do, if they thought that short-term recklessness was the only path of hope?
Well, the MIT TR article directly mentions that Sam Altman himself is one of the first 25 donors to Nectome (paid $10,000), and quoted saying “I assume my brain will be uploaded to the cloud”. So in that scenario perhaps it would lead to the opposite outcome, with him suddenly investing a lot in cryo and being mor...
We talked for a while about the brain preservation situation in Europe, and why things are more dysfunctional there than might be apparent from afar
I'd like to hear more about this! I'm currently a member of Tomorrow Bio, which you've briefly mentioned, and even though they use this (outdated?) deep freeze method they still seem quite professional and dedicated (e.g. publishing detailed case reports and showing improvements).
Is the difference about financial stability? Legality?
be verified
Correction: community notes users only need to be phone-verified, not blue-check-verified.
The implementation could possibly be extended to cover more weak points.
For example, you could cover the diamond with additional chips in all sides. Or you could make the chip so fragile that it breaks when the diamond is affected by strong enough vibrations (as is likely, with a diamond cutter). Or you could create more complex (but hard/impossible to tamper with) chips that continuously confirm stuff like "no object has come within 10cm of the diamond" or "the temperature remained regular" or "the weight on the pedestal is exactly X grams".
My...
I'm a newcomer to this, I lack much of the background, and I'm probably suggesting a solution that's too specific to this diamond heist scenario. But, I already spent an hour writing it down, so I might as well share it.
Trusted timestamping, cryptographically secure sensor
This is a very basic "builder move", I guess? The idea is to simply improve our sensors so that it's very hard to tamper with them, through public-private key encryption. The diamond will have a small chip that constantly sends a cryptographically-signed timestamped life...
> Nectome wants $20k upfront, and they're basically accepting a $230k shortfall should anyone die in the interim. This would make anyone skeptical that they really have any intention of following through. Malice or incompetence, the numbers don't add up!
This is incorrect, you should read more about the numbers here, it's not the way you described them, but rather:
- pay $250k, and they will handle you immediately
- pay $100k upfront (during this discount period), and they will handle you if you die at any point
- pay $20k upfront (during this discount period), a
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