Plans within plans. . .

I've started to write down ideas for the rescuing/rebooting/rebranding of cryonics in a Moleskine with a red cover I bought recently. (That volume - The Red Notebook - might wind up in a museum some day as a historically significant document in the history of cryonics.)

I'll give a hint about my current line of thinking: Cryonics makes a Hayekian sort of argument. (This does not mean I accept Austrian economics in general, especially the crank versions which promote conspiracy theories about the Federal Reserve System and keep predicting hyperinflationary doomsdays for the U.S.) We assume that the dispersed knowledge to revive us exists across the future, but not currently; and we want to set up mechanisms to find and coordinate this knowledge in the coming decades and centuries to attempt cryonauts' revival in a healthy state some day. I guess you could call it a trans-temporal division of labor, or something like that.

But what if much of this dispersed knowledge already exists, or if some people could discover or infer it in a timely fashion and make it available to cryonics organizations with the right incentives? How do we overcome our ignorance and find and coordinate this dispersed knowledge, starting in 2011, in a cost-efficient way and greatly improve our chances?

I've said for some time now that cryonics activists need to break out from our insularity and comfort zones and seek the assistance of many additional human minds from diverse but useful backgrounds, even if the non-cryonicists who help to solve our technical problems, with the right incentives, don't necessarily care for getting cryosuspended themselves. My priority idea for now still needs some work, but recent developments in cryonics might make it easier for me to get some influence.

Though, of course, it wouldn't surprise me if I encounter resistance for proposing something we haven't tried before. Many cryonicists talk a good game about their proactionary thinking and sophistication in business, economics, technology trends and so forth, but some of them then turn around and cling to outdated or just dodgy ideas like Austrian economics (of the woo-woo variety), Galambosianism or "nanotechnology."

It has also occurred to me recently that I and some other people I know will become the senior cryonicists in a few years; not just because of our advancing years, but also because of our long involvement. I don't have the sort of personality which generates the perception of high status, but I might have some mid-level status imputed to me any way just from hanging on long enough. Woody Allen said something to the effect that showing up accounts for 90 percent of life.