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A Classical SuperHumanist cryonicsx blog by "PhilOssifur" [Summer 2007]
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Fall 2007 continuation at the following blog... under 'cryonics-- SA-- [+]

Sunday, July 29, 2007

George Dvorsky's blog shows up under cryonics search.

[+] WTA member Dvorsky's blog is listed on the Google blogsearch under keyword 'cryonics' as are several others. This conference really got the cryonics-aware bloggers out and running. It might be time for cryonicists to fully recognize the value of Google blogsearch under 'cryonics' which I've been pushing for some time. The trick is to delete all the junk from pharma companies-- which I've done with my link here-- [+]

A few excerpts from Dvorsky-- and a few excerpted responses in his response section-->

Some of the key presenters included Ray Kurzweil, William Shatner, Peter Diamandis, Ed Begley Jr., Marvin Minsky, Ronald Bailey, Philip Rosedale, Ralph Merkle, Aubrey de Grey and a number of transhumanist standbys such as James Hughes, Max More, Natasha Vita-More, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Ben Goertzel, Anders Sandberg and Martine Rothblatt.

But as I learned in 2004 you shouldn’t count your chickens before they get uploaded. Attendance, I am quite certain, was well below expectations. The number of empty seats was disturbing.

Still, I had to remind myself time and time again that this wasn’t intended to be an academic conference. We were once again going fishing, casting our lures into the waters to see if the public was ready to take a bite.

To close the event, William Shatner affirmed and accentuated the positive vibe of the conference by unabashedly declaring that humanity must seize the initiative and take control of its own evolution. His enthusiasm for the transhumanist vision earned him a standing ovation.

I don't think you can have an academic conference and invite the general public at the same time. You have to have a conversation out one level or the other, otherwise you get the kind of mixed presentations and mixed questions that you saw at TV07. Right now, other than folks like de Grey, Bostrom, Hughes, and Sandberg, transhumanism isn't an academic discipline. Transhumanists should probably focus more on spreading the word.

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