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• Trottelreiner commented on The Curious Experience of Middle Age
  err, who's to say you can't upload kittens. plus you can create copies of your mind and the kittens in question to get the optimal numbers of kittens to crawl and instances of yourself doing the crawling......
• Trottelreiner commented on The Curious Experience of Middle Age
  iirc there was a max headroom episode about a similar scam. and there it is... http://www.thiel-a-vision.com/?p=4806...
• Nestor commented on The Curious Experience of Middle Age
  It depends what you call a scam, according to a professor in the relevant sciences I asked, cutting your brain into fine slices and plastifying it is probably the best archival method for your headmeats we have with current technology. You could, with a perfectly straight face, offer this as a brain preservation technique awaiting a sufficiently high technology to recreate you in the future. For me, OGH and his fellow scribes have given me enough nightmares about what you can do with an upload that I'm rather glad neural tissue liquifies so quickly after death. It seems like a...
• RDSouth commented on The Curious Experience of Middle Age
  I find that I go in cycles of a few months of sedentary creativity and intellectual curiosity alternating with a few months of physical activity and external exploration. I wonder if I get smartest just as I am most physically declining because the physical decline actually does something to make me smarter, or because physical activity makes me dumber (or a different kind of smart) or simply because you get on a roll and you get "in practice" at sitting and doing mental stuff. All my life I've tried to set up systems and regimens to motivate myself and routinize...
• Tojiroh commented on The Curious Experience of Middle Age
  Hope I'm not too late to say "DON'T"! I've practiced Judo for thirteen years, stopped eight years ago. I'm now 31, and I'm not planning on taking regular classes again. Why? Dislocated both shoulders, strained both of my big toes, not to mention my twisted pinky (the owner's mirror?), an inter-vertebral disc slipping... Yeah, I'd do it all over again. And I'd still stop before thirty. :) Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ), OTOH, is wonderful for us Judo veterans. It has the same Judo set of rules (with more leeway), but with an emphasis on groundwork (locks, pins, strangleholds) that makes it...