From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 29 2000 - 21:07:20 MDT
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky blurted:
> John M Grigg wrote:
> >
> > I really enjoyed reading the book and got a kick out of seeing
Eliezer mentioned in it(must be old news here, but not to me). The
end of the book where various people who knew Leary tell stories about
him was my favorite. He was a flawed man but still quite brilliant.
>
> WHAT?
Darn it. It's here in the Yale Library, but they're closed. (Classes
don't start for a few days.) However, there's no doubt at all in my
mind that you appear in this book, coauthored with R.U. Sirius.
http://www.spikemagazine.com/1097dead.htm
"Yet Design For Dying's discussion of the various current and future
technologies that could outwit death - everything from cryogenics to
downloading the mind onto hard disk and regenerating the body through
nanotechnology - shows a keen, analytical intelligence at
work. Inevitably, he focuses on drugs as a means of achieving insight
into what happens beyond death. Underpinning his optimism is the Leary
Theory that death is 'a merging with the entire life process.' For all
his hyberbole, Leary's sense of humour remains intact: 'The idea of
keeping someone's head in cryogenic suspension pushes people's taboo
buttons even more than whole-body suspension, which is one fun reason
to do it'. "
-Dan
-unless you love someone-
-nothing else makes any sense-
e.e. cummings
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