Cryosphere Podcast

In this episode Max and Daniel speak with Carrie Radomski, President & Board Member of the Lifespan Society of British Columbia.

Carrie is a geoscientist, writer, artist, crypto enthusiast, gold explorer (yes, the kind that goes looking for gold in the Yukon), and much more.

In this episode we discuss: 

• The Lifespan Society
• Carrie and her family's long legacy of contrarianism 
• Her varied political leanings, past and present
• Carries career as a gold explorer in the Yukon!  
• The legend of the Sour Toe whiskey...
• Life extension enthusiasts vs Cryonics enthusiasts
• Gold vs Bitcoin as store of value
• How small planes are more dangerous
• The Lifespan Societies legal challenge of the Crown 
• The future of the Lifespan Society as an SST organization 
• And much more...

You can also check out our new YouTube version of the episode!

As always, you can find Max and Daniel over at the Cryonics Underground Channel in the Cryosphere Cryonics discord chat server.

Links: https://www.lifespansociety.com/

If you would like a large first year discount when signing up for Alcor, feel free to use our code: CRYOCAST when registering. This will also help support the podcast. 

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To celebrate coming back from our short hiatus, today we bring you our first bonus episode! This is the audio version of the new cryonics YouTube series: The Cryosphere Roundtable.

The question we discuss today is: 

• What books should every cryonicist read?

The inaugural episode of a regularly occurring discussion amongst the mods of the The Cryosphere Discord channel. Every month we'll be discussing a different cryonics topic. Occasionally, we'll grab some unwitting members from the channel and force them to look at our faces for an extended period of time. And also talk with us.

If you prefer a visual medium, we suggest you watch the funnier and more animated YouTube version, here.

Lastly, don't forget to check out The Cryosphere community on Discord! 

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On this episode of the podcast, Max is joined by special guest host and previous guest, Nikki Olson.

For the first time, we're are also publishing the video of our full conversation over on Youtube! You can find it at : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acp6tBSJgE4

Today, Max and Nikki are speaking with long time Cryonicist Robin Hanson. Robin is an associate professor of Economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute. He's published several books and papers including the Age of Em, The Elephant in the Brain, and most recently a paper on what he calls "Grabby Aliens" a followup to his earlier line of inquiry around the fermi paradox and the possible great filter in front of us. He's also published on the subject of Cryonics for over a decade, much of which can be found on his popular blog, Overcoming Bias. 

• Why aren’t more “contrarians”, like Robin, interested in Cryonics?
• The idea of offering to pay for (or defray the cost of) Cryonics for our friends?
• Max’s “GoFreezeMe” idea - to allow anyone to contribute to the cryopreservation of anyone else.
• Prediction markets & Cryonics.
• How could the Cryonics industry grow more quickly in the coming years?
• Theories on why there aren’t more women in Cryonics.
• Revival scenarios & bringing resources with you.
• Plastination and room temperature storage ideas.
• The “Uncanny Valley” problem with Cryonics?
• Brain uploading vs biological repair.
• Why are Cryonicists so… normal?
• Overrated or underrated including: 
  • Pet Cryonics
  • The Simulation Argument 
  • and more

You can find both Max and Nikki over at the Cryosphere Discord server or email the pod at cryonicsunderground [at] G mail .com

@makesmarty
@robinhanson

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In this episode, Max and Daniel speak with Patrick Harris, the CEO and President of Alcor. Patrick is speaking with us today on several major new initiatives he's been working on over the past several months. We'll be doing both a reveal of Patrick's new initiatives along with a deep dive into the thinking and goals behind them.

Before his role at Alcor, Patrick was a healthcare executive, innovator, and business strategist with experience in the healthcare industry including McKesson and Safeway Corporate Pharmacy. Having experience in healthcare technology, products, and services, and managing a couple billion in revenue. He is a named inventor on more than 40 non-public patent applications.

In this episode we discuss:

• Patrick's background and how he came to his position at Alcor
• The obstacles that Alcor had historically struggled with
• Alcor's business model - Research, Education, and Growth
• Alcor's new Enhanced Agreements and Online Signup process
• Alcor's new permanent prepay option
• New Member Options
• Pet Cryonics
• Age Based Due Structures
• The new Independent Cryonics Educator (ICE) Program
• Alcor's future ambitions
• And much more...

 As always, you can find Max and Daniel over at the Cryonics Underground Channel in the Cryosphere Cryonics discord chat server.

Links:

- Alcor's New Business Model PDF

- Special Issue of Cryonics Magazine for Alcor’s 50th Anniversary

The Cryonics Underground podcast Is hiring!  We're looking for a great audio engineer. Details here.

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In this episode Max and Daniel speak with the venerable Ralph Merkle. Among his numerous achievements Ralph is the leading expert on nanotechnology, the inventor of cryptographic hashing and the co-inventor of public key cryptography. He is currently a board member at Alcor.    

In today's episode we discuss:

• What is Molecular Nanotechnology?
• How do different people use the phrase "Nano-Tech"
• The use cases for medical nanobots
• How we manipulate the world at the nano scale
• What are the more difficult molecules to work with?
• The intersection of Cryonics and nanotech
• Ralph Merkle's relationship with Cryonics
• Ralph's views on other scientific fields
• Ralphs opinions on cryptocurrency and Bitcoin
• Is Ralph Merkle actually Satoshi Nakamoto?
  
  And much more...
  
   As always, you can find Max and Daniel over at the Cryonics Underground Channel in the Cryosphere Cryonics discord chat server.

The Cryonics Underground podcast Is hiring!  We're looking for a great audio engineer. Details here.

Links: 

• Cryostasis Revival by Robert A. Freitas JR https://www.alcor.org/docs/CryostasisRevivalV2.11.pdf
• http://www.merkle.com/
• Nanofactory Example
• Nanotechnology & Cryonics - Preserving ourselves for the future
• The Scale of the Universe - A simulation to understand just how big (and small) things are.

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In this episode, Max and Daniel speak with the legendary Ben Best. Among the numerous cryonics and life extension groups he has been associated with over the years, Ben is most known for being the former president of the Cryonics Institute from 2003 to 2012.

He is a senior member of a cryonics Teens and Twenties group, and he’s currently the director of research and oversight at the biomedical research & longevity society, formerly known as the Life Extension Foundation.

In today's episode we discuss:

• Ben's upbringing
• His struggles to find his place within Cryonics
• Ben's juggling of difficult personalities within the industry
• His disagreements with Robert Ettinger
• Ben's tenure at the Cryonics Institute
• His pivot into life extension
• The differences between younger and older cryonicists
• Ben's thoughts on the state of the industry
• His current endeavors in field 

And much more...

 As always, you can find Max and Daniel over at the Cryonics Underground Channel in the Cryosphere Cryonics discord chat server.

Links: https://benbest.com/

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In this episode Max and Daniel speak with Lisa Harris. Lisa is an Alcor member and an advisor to the board of directors. She is also on Alcor's legal and regulatory committee as well as the research and development committee.  Lisa has a background as an attorney, and currently works in healthcare research technology. 

In today's conversation we discuss: Trusts and their usefulness to Cryoncists + Lisa and Patrick Harris's own efforts in this space! 

• Patient Care Trusts 
• Alcor Care Trusts 
• Lisa's Personal Revival Trust
• How to deal with long term risk 
• Balancing asset-growth with risk mitigation
• When is the right time to be looking into this issue? How much by way of assets do you need before this makes sense? 
• Incentivizing your future heirs to behave accordingly 
• Should you bury your treasure like a pirate?

Trust us... you don't wanna miss it!

As always, you can find Max and Daniel over at the Cryonics Underground Channel in the Cryosphere Cryonics discord chat server.

You can also find Lisa here and get in touch directly with any questions you may have for her.

  

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In this episode Max and Daniel speak with Eric Vogt. Eric is a veteran paramedic, a pilot and one of the two co-founders of I.C.E. - International Cryomedicine Experts. I.C.E is a highly experienced standby, stabilization and transportation company.

In today's conversation we discuss:

• What I.C.E does, and how their organization benefits cryonics.
• Eric's background and how he came to work with Aaron Drake
• A refresher on Standby, Stabilization and Transport
• Why you may want to add private chartered flight to your cryo-plans. 
• The challenges of bringing neuro patients through airport security.

And much more...

 As always, you can find Max and Daniel over at the Cryonics Underground Channel in the Cryosphere Cryonics discord chat server.

Links for I.C.E : www.cryomedics.org  

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Gennady Stolyarov II (G. Stolyarov II) became the second Chairman in the history of the Transhumanist Party in November 2016. Mr. Stolyarov is an actuary,  independent philosophical essayist, science-fiction novelist, poet, amateur mathematician, composer, and Editor-in-Chief of The Rational Argumentator, a magazine championing the principles of reason, rights, and progress. Mr. Stolyarov regularly produces YouTube Videos discussing life extension, politics, philosophy, and related subjects.

In December 2013, Mr. Stolyarov published Death is Wrong, an ambitious children’s book on life extension. Death is Wrong can be found on Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats, and can also be freely downloaded in PDF format in the English, Russian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese languages.

Mr. Stolyarov is the current chairman of the US Transhumanist Party and Chief Executive of the Nevada Transhumanist Party, established in August 2015.

In today's episode we discuss: 

• What is Transhumanism, and what does it have to do with Cryonics?
• The history of Transhumanism as a philosophical movement and as a political party.
• Gennady's personal journey towards Transhumanism.
• The political structure and political goals of the Transhumanist Party.
• Big umbrella vs small umbrella party politics and other political strategy.
• How Cryonics fits into the Transhumanist platform.

And much more...

 As always, you can find us over at the Cryonics Underground Channel in the Cryosphere Cryonics discord chat server. You can also reach us directly by email at cryonicsunderground [at] the email service provided by everyone's favorite (or least favorite, as the case may be) search company.

[Note, there are two small audio glitches at 25:00 to 26:00.]  

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Joseph Kowalsky is a long-time Cryonicist and Officer at the Cryonics’s Institute’s leadership team. Joseph is also a financial consultant and has spoken publicly on behalf of Cryonics at various events in the past. Joseph is leading the fight to promote organ cryopreservation via the Cryo-prize. 

In this episode we discuss:

• Joseph's Orthodox Jewish upbringing and its relationship with Cryonics
• How he interprets the intersection of faith and Cryonics
• Misconceptions about religious Cryonicists
• Joseph's memories of Robert Ettinger, the Founder of Cryonics
• How the Cryonics Institute keeps its prices so low
• The need for better organ Cryopreservation
• Joseph's involvement with the Cryo-Prize
• Musings on the Modern Star Trek Movies

And much more...

You can find more on the Cryoprize at www.facebook.com/cryoprize and you can easily donate to them every time you buy something on amazon by selecting them as your smile.amazon.com recipient. This donates money to the Cryoprize every time you shop on amazon without costing you anything extra. 

As always, you can find us over at the Cryonics Underground Channel in the Cryosphere Cryonics discord chat server. You can also reach us directly by email at cryonicsunderground [at] the email service provided by everyone's favorite (or least favorite, as the case may be) search company.   

Links:
https://www.cryoprize.com/

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