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Major-premise: There is a 50% chance that your consciousness is immortal. Minor-premise A: There is a 50% chance that time is infinite. There are two possibilities: that time ends or that it continues infinitely. If you accept that we cannot prove either and must therefore assign a 50% probability for each then you accept this premise. Minor-premise B: Your consciousness is substrate, space and time independent. Sub-premise i: Substrate independence. If you accept that your consciousness can be copied onto a different substrate without losing integrity then you accept this premise. Sub-premise ii: Space independence. If you accept that you are constantly moving through space without your consciousness losing integrity then you accept this premise. Sub-premise iii: Time independence. Thought experiment: Imagine that your brain is frozen with every proton and electron held perfectly in place for a million years and then unfrozen again. You would resume thinking and not f...

You must do what you need to do so you can do what you must do. Overcome your personal psychological barriers to reason and rational action. Write down everything that you know you should be doing then write down the reasons why you're not doing them. Your entire focus should then be to overcome those reasons.

The great triumph and challange of the rational scientific method is to admit ultimate, personal fallibility.

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Predictive bio-metrics and health optimization The most important online applications to be developed since the birth of the Internet are less than a decade away, yet they remain largely off the radar of investors and web-developers. These applications are optimizers for the most important thing we have - our health. A couple of years ago IBM released a report that stated that by 2011 the total amount of data in the world may be doubling every eleven hours. I believe that this prediction will be more than met by the surge in self-tracking devices that will be released over the coming years. I am a member of a growing community of web-developers and engineers, doctors and scientists that believe that the gold that can be mined from this data is vast and highly valuable. The spread of ubiquitous micro-trackers will make health data collection cheaper and easier. The self-tracking hardware and software will no doubt be unified by cloud computing and result in a 'perfect storm...