{"id":219597,"date":"2025-08-07T16:03:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/interview-with-ralph-merkle-vitalist-bay"},"modified":"2025-08-07T16:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:03:38","slug":"interview-with-ralph-merkle-vitalist-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/interview-with-ralph-merkle-vitalist-bay","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Ralph Merkle @ Vitalist Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UXWEKcOU78w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The venerable Ralph Merkle joins Max Marty on stage at Vitalist Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Key topics covered:<\/p>\n<p>- Why cryonics is still \u201c0.00001%\u201d of people despite decades of advocacy \u2014 and Merkle\u2019s admission that believing rational arguments would work was his biggest mistake.<br \/> - The wild Dora Kent story.<br \/> - The organizational split in 1992 that affected growth for over a decade.<br \/> - Why Merkle\u2019s success probability hasn\u2019t changed since the 80s.<br \/> - Whether preserving your information pattern is enough or if you need \u201ccontinuity of consciousness\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>And more.<\/p>\n<p>Links:<br \/> \u2022 Cryosphere Discord server: <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/ndshSfQwqz\">https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/ndshSfQwqz<\/a>.<br \/> \u2022 Cryonics subreddit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/cryonics\/\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/cryonics\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The venerable Ralph Merkle joins Max Marty on stage at Vitalist Bay. Key topics covered: \u2014 Why cryonics is still \u201c0.00001%\u201d of people despite decades of advocacy \u2014 and Merkle\u2019s admission that believing rational arguments would work was his biggest mistake. \u2014 The wild Dora Kent story. \u2014 The organizational split in 1992 that affected [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2017,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryonics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}