Entries from December 2008 ↓

A general problem with reporters is that they don’t write what happened, they write the Nearest Cliché to what happened.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Cryonics is the practice of freezing seemingly dead people in the hope that future technology might wake them up.

What if a criminal sentenced to death asks to be cryogenically preserved?

What if a criminal sentenced to life-in-prison asks to be cryogenically preserved should he die in prison? What if they are sentenced to multiple consecutive life sentences?

Should these requests be granted? Is denying it to the life-in-prison felon an effective death sentence?

The Keynesian model has some clear, practical insights about how to think about fiscal policy during economic downturns. But are those insights true?

Greg Mankiw