Glenn Reynolds Jumps The Shark At Warp Speed
I was all ready to talk about The Washington Post this morning, when I ran into this at Instapundit : Glenn Reynolds shills a Substack essay proposing that "the Singularity" is already here. He begins by citing Ray Kurzweil. At best, Kurzweil is an idiot savant , posssibly a brilliant inventor, but also, according to Wikipedia , a believer in freezing his body aftrer death in hopes of having it resuscitated at some future point: Kurzweil has joined the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, a cryonics company. After his death, he has a plan to be perfused with cryoprotectants, vitrified in liquid nitrogen, and stored at an Alcor facility in the hope that future medical technology will be able to revive him. As of 2005, Reynolds was a big fan of this quackery, enthusiastically promoting the work of both Kurzweil and Aubrey de Gray , a promoter of human lifespan extension. According to the Wikipedia link, De Grey is a cryonicist, having signed up with Alcor. When...