Michael Yamashita's Blog Scan
It's time once more for Michael Yamashita's weekly look around the blogosphere:
http://instapundit.com/archives/032519.php
... THE CONSERVATIVE ARGUMENT for life extension. ... (link to TCS article)
Profile page: http://instapundit.com/about.php
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http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=292
... Not all conservatives go along with the anti-science attitudes of the right wing. TCS Daily challenges fellow conservatives on life extension, finding that in this case conservatives take the "pro-death" position. While I would disagree with the underlying assumption that on other issues conservatives are truly "pro-life," and note many other issues in which conservatives oppose the true "pro-life" position, such as stem cell research, it is still refreshing to see a conservative refute fellow conservatives here: ...
Profile page: http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?page_id=2
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http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=170
... From a year and a half ago. Life extension will ruin Christmas, did you know that? ... (YouTube cut of interview with Aubrey)
Profile page: http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/
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General links to blog: 380
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http://okfuture.net/2006/09/15/nanobots-on-comedy-central/
...Nano-wizard and futurist Ray Kurzweil is featured in this ComedyCentral take on the future of nanotechnology. From bots in the blood, to life extension, to copulating with robots . . . Courtesy of YouTube. ...
Profile page: http://okfuture.net/about/
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General links to blog: 46
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http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2006/09/conservative_life_extension.html
... Charles N.W. Keckler on TCS Daily makes a Conservative Case for Immortality. I'm reminded of Eric K. Drexler's keynote speech at Extro 3, where he argued that cryonic suspension of recently dead was the 'cautious and conservative thing to do'. It is a nice essay, but will hardly convince any conservatives. Because preserving the greats of the ...
Profile page: http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/
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General links to blog: 38
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http://digitalcrusader.ca/archives/2006/09/optimizing_your.html
... Existence is Wonderful: On Optimization, a story about what you ought to be doing, given your knowledge of transhumanism. And indeed it's an important issue that I too think about all the time: is this really the best use of my time? It's a surprisingly difficult question to answer... And that's only partly because of the vast gulf between where ...
Profile page: http://digitalcrusader.ca/
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General links to blog: 24
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http://pimm.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/conservative-argument-for-life-extension/
... Conservative argument FOR life extension Charles N. W. Keckler, a litigator and former law professor of Washington, D.C., tries to develop an argument for conservatives to support maximum life extension in TCS Daily. His main trick is to tell "revolutionary" change from "good, innovative" change, former opposed, later supported by conservatives. ...
Profile page: http://pimm.wordpress.com/about/
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http://stonedeadparrot.blogspot.com/2006/09/conservative-case-for-immortality_12.html
... TCSDaily has an article by Charles Keckler looking at conservative attitudes toward life-extension . Most conservatives oppose technological advances which would extend (perhaps indefinitely) the human lifespan. Keckler tries to be fair to people like Leon Kass who oppose such life-extension, which was unexpected--usually the ...
Profile page: http://stonedeadparrot.blogspot.com/
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General links to blog: 5
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http://interpretatio.blogspot.com/2006/09/privileging-pure.html
... Living in an age where scientific life improvement is paramount and immortality is ideal, it seems as if the characters of Holy Fire would strive for all that is above and beyond simple human life. And this is the case for the early stages of both Mia and Maya. Mia, a slave to the polity way of thinking, clearly sees life extension and the highest ...
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http://layamon.livejournal.com/1312.html
... Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence "The human species can, if it wishes, transcend itself — not just sporadically, an individual here in one way, an individual there in another way, but in its entirety, as humanity. We need a name for this new belief. Perhaps transhumanism will serve: man remaining man, but transcending himself, ... (Link to Google Video of interview with Aubrey)
Profile page: http://layamon.livejournal.com/profile
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http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=14454223&blogID=162331026
... I notice a lack, an overwhelming lack actually, of people enthusiastic about keeping their bodies from deterioriating to the point where they die. Do people just not care about their lives that much? Is what is going on in your mind and your reactions to this enviroment youve been thrust into just really not all that big of a deal? Ide be ...
Profile page: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=14454223
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http://interpretatio.blogspot.com/2006/09/sweet-dreams.html
... From the very beginning of the novel I wanted a certain outcome. I don’t know if maybe I’ve seen Vanilla Sky (Yeah, I like it better than then Abre Los Ojos) one too many times or what the case is, but I always figured that at the end of the novel it was going to be exposed that Maya was in a sort of dream simulation throughout the entire ...
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http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=32715251&blogID=168223177
... What if I were to tell you that indefinite life is is an obtainable realitly in our life time? Chances are you would respond as almost everyone else I have tried to tell. Your response would be a mixture of cynisism and ridicule. Unfortunatly this is the same reaction the men and women of the Methuselah Foundation face everyday. This reality is ...
Profile page: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=32715251
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