Interview with Nectome CEO Robert McIntyre – Brain Preservation, Personal Identity, AGI, and More

Robert McIntrye is an all-around smart and interesting dude, and he’s the CEO of Nectome, a startup devoted to preserving the human brain. Last year, I wrote a summary of Robert’s brain preservation talk at the Long Now Foundation: The Greatest Film Career of All-Time He later read it and reached out to me about …

Notes on Robert McIntyre’s Brain Preservation Talk at the Long Now Foundation

These are my notes on Robert McIntyre’s talk at the Long Now Foundation: Engram Preservation: Early Work Towards Mind Uploading | Robert McIntyre I stumbled across the Long Now Foundation back in 2011 and heard about their 10,000 year clock, a project to design a clock to keep time for 10,000 years (and bring media …

Enjoying Life: Curiosity and Fighting Aging

Note: My Three Buckets post is important background for this and basically every other thing you do in life. I’d recommend reading it first if you haven’t already: https://www.johncgreer.com/the-three-buckets/ First off, is aging and death really such a bad thing? If you’re like most people, you probably think death isn’t such a bad thing, especially …

The Three Buckets of Life: How to Spend Your Time and Money

You want to live the happiest life you possibly can. I do too. But how do we do that? Most things, like where we were born or who our parents are, aren’t under our control, but we can focus on the things that we can control, like making better decisions. That’s easier said than done, …