Yes, I advocate conducting cryonics experiments on children. No other interpretation of my words (such as looking at the context) could possibly exist:
Don't Jews have a problem like this called "blood libel" or something?
Now let me explain the reasoning for what I clearly intended as a thought experiment. According the actuarial table, a human male has the lowest probability of dying in his lifetime at age 10 (0.000085). The probability of dying goes up every year after that. So I take that probability at age 10 as a proxy measurement for the best condition of the human cardiovascular system in your lifetime.
Everyone's cardiovascular system, the plumbing necessary to remove blood and perfuse the brain with cryoprotective solutions in a cryonic suspension, deteriorates with age, so that cryonics organizations often have trouble getting good perfusions of suspendees's brains in their 70's, 80's and 90's, even under optimal conditions. I used the child example to show the contrast with the usual experience of cryonic suspensions.
Add in the fact that cardiovascular diseases cause progressive brain damage as we age, and the knowledge underscores cryonicists' urgency to have these conditions treated aggressively at younger ages to try to postpone their devastation for as long as possible. In my case, I've started to do that with Lisinopril to lower my blood pressure, weight loss and some things I'd like to try to raise my HDL level.
BTW, The Anticult has promoted me to "full-time cryonics promoter." I wish I could make a living doing something like that, instead of running a motel (something I feel I still don't do very well, even with nearly 20 years' experience; I certainly don't have the right sort of personality for it). In my fantasy self re-invention I'd rather work behind the scenes by trying to advance the search for engineering solutions to the Emergency cryonics attempts to address, for example through the effort to make "ideas have sex," as Matt Ridley phrases it, seconded by Steven Johnson. Who could have predicted, for example, that NASA knew some things which helped to save the Chilean miners? I'd like to find some nonobvious sources of expertise out there, similar to NASA's contributions, to improve the odds of cryonics' success.
One would have to be very dense indeed to mistake your comment for a desire to kill little boys. But perhaps TAC&Co are really that dense.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise the explanation would have to be malice. Do you think they might, you know, hate cryonics or something? Are we dealing with a hate group here?