I turn 51 years old today, or 612 months, as I sometimes calculate my age. According to the actuarial table I have a remaining life expectancy of about 28 years, which would get me to the year 2038 as a first approximation. However, three of my grandparents made it to their early 90's, so I might have the potential to squeeze out another dozen years or so, and tough it out to, say, the year 2050.
Assuming that I have 30-40 years to look forward to in this part of my existence, what would I like to see happen? Well, in my fantasy future, I'd like for the older cryonicists to show me appreciation and respect, based on the consideration that they will probably go into the dewars, if they wind up there at all, somewhat before I do. They have self-interested reasons now to cultivate the people who will have the ability to look out for their interests in the next few decades when they no longer can, for example ones to make sure their dewars stay full of liquid nitrogen. I will gladly assume that role for them, where feasible, provided that it also makes sense emotionally for me to accept that responsibility. And in turn I will cultivate the younger cryonicists who impress me as worthy of the task of looking out for my interests, along with the interests of preceding suspendees, in the decades after my suspension. Cryonics needs an "apostolic succession" of leaders, activists and researchers over several generations, if it has any chance at all of succeeding.
If, however, the current cryonicist elders advise me to do something equivalent to dating the fat and ugly women, especially if they don't like my posts about Peak Oil's threat to air travel, or about the "nanotechnology" delusion and the need to rethink revival arguments, then I might not have such a strong motivation to protect their interests in their vulnerable state. Wouldn't you think so?
now that you lost all that weight, are you gonna go out and score some poon, mah man? It's never too late.....
ReplyDeleteYou can see my post above about the Scottsdale-based escort service I found on the web.
ReplyDeleteI've changed my thinking about my situation lately due to my reading of blogs about "game" and evolutionary psychology. Apparently women find the majority of men sexually unappealing, compared to the minority of alpha male cads out there; so I don't feel so bad about the systematic rejection now.
The genetic evidence even suggests that we have twice as many female ancestors as male ancestors, so I interpret that to mean that women have sexually rejected literally billions of men in our evolutionary history. Those guys died without descendants, and a lot of them apparently without sex. (The ones who managed to copulate failed to produce conceptions because of sperm competition with alpha males, and because of female selection in favor of alpha males' sperm through strategic female orgasms.)
And I had no clue that this went on until the last few years. Talk about entering a looking-glass world without moving!