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I spoke again yesterday to mostly retired folks at GMU’s lifelong learning institute, on “You & the Distant Future” (audio; slides). I talked on near-far theory, long-term bequests, and cryonics.
You & The Distant Future
> Gwern, and more detail than I know.
? I sent you a huge email on the topic back in December 2011. (I had assumed you never replied because that was the high status thing to do.)
But to try it again; I excerpted some of the most interesting stuff in http://www.gwern.net/Notes#... from “The Provision of Public Goods under Islamic Law: Origins, Impact, and Limitations of the Waqf System”, by Timur Kuran; Law & Society Review, Vol. 35, No. 4 (2001), pp. 841–898 http://econ.duke.edu/upload...
Gwern, and more detail than I know.
Bob, I have little experience giving talks on cryonics.
TGGP, I expected that would take too long a digression to explain.