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Michael Yamashita's Blog Scan

Michael Yamashita scans the blogosphere so you don't have to:

http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=136
... An overview of virtual venues where transhumanists get together to chat about issues ranging from sex to nuclear fusion to Jupiter Brains: Extropy-chat Extropy-chat, aka the extropians mailing list, has been around for more than two decades. It's the longest-running and most active transhumanist mailing list on the Internet. Lots of extremely ...
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http://digitalcrusader.ca/archives/2006/08/transvision_200_1.html
... This is the first of the reviews I promised. I have watched Day 1 Parts 1 through 4, including talks by Aubrey de Grey, Jose Cordeiro, James Hughes, Bruce Lloyd, and Riccardo Campa. Day 1 Part 1 features Aubrey de Grey. The audio is not very good, but it gets better after the first couple of minutes and you can understand him most of the time. In ...
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http://supersurvival.blogspot.com/2006/08/now-cryonics-pioneers-tell-us.html
... Steve Bridge now thinks cryonics took a seriously wrong turn over two decades ago by failing to integrate into conventional emergency medicine. Instead, by following Robert Ettinger's lead of linking cryonics to the goal of becoming immortal superhumans, it developed a subculture that attracts a small and unusual range of ... ... Which raises the question of how closely cryonics should get to Aubrey de Grey's "strategies for engineered negligible senescence" (SENS), considering that de Grey has titled his talk at Alcor's conference this October, "SENS: A Precursor to Cryonic Revival." Aubrey de Grey's career as of 2006 invites comparisons with Drexler's trajectory around 15 years ago, before mainstream scientists took a good look at Drexler's specific proposals and piled on the criticisms, effectively destroying Drexler's credibility for some valid reasons. Because de Grey has nearly made a nuisance of himself in the scientific community with SENS, now other scientists in the relevant disciplines have started to pay attention to his ideas and begun the skeptical analysis. (And I have no problem with that: If de Grey's ideas won't work, we need to discover that sooner rather than later so we can find better ideas.) A decade or so from now, will we look upon de Grey as a failed technological prophet like Drexler?...
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http://trigram.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/to-singapore-and-beyooooond/
I mentioned the other day that I find the prospect living in Singapore very exciting as this little island becomes a world leader in bioscience and life-extension technologies. I like the idea of these medical techniques becoming common here, ...
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http://darlenezagata.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/artificial-life-extension/
... Artificial Life Extension August 23rd, 2006 If you could extend your life by 100 or even 1000 years, would you? Imagine that your body would be young, healthy and strong and that you wouldn't continue to age or would at least age at a slow rate, would you want to live longer then? Most people wouldn't want to extend their lives in the current ...
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