David Wallace Croft

Optihumanist

Sunday, April 26, 2026

Automobile Accidents

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In early 1993, I visited with Professor Ed Posner on the campus of Caltech.  He had agreed to be my research advisor when I started graduat...
Monday, March 30, 2026

My Father

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My father Joseph Wallace Croft, Junior passed away earlier this month.  Long before his final breath, dementia had stolen away the person t...
Saturday, February 28, 2026

Peer Promotion

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This morning I read DAOs, Democracy, and Governance by Ralph C. Merkle .  The author proposes a Democratic Collective Welfare (DCW) metric...
Sunday, January 25, 2026

Religious Cybernaturalism

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Like early twentieth-century American Religious Humanism , Religious Naturalism advocates for religion without supernatural elements.  Unli...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Progress is Perpetual

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For my annual update to my Optihumanist Principles , I made changes to a couple of the sections.  In the "Life is limitless" secti...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Producer Paradise

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In the new Kurzgesagt video We Found a Loophole to Survive the End of the Universe , the narrator speculates that an intelligent race that ...
Friday, October 31, 2025

Fight Oligarchy

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Recently I finished listening to Fight Oligarchy , another audiobook narrated by the author Senator Bernie Sanders .  I liked much of what S...
Saturday, September 27, 2025

Evolution as Purpose

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Previously I concluded that the purpose of life is to reproduce .  Thinking about artificial intelligence and uploading has put a spin on t...
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Youniverse

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I just finished reading Youniverse: Toward a Self-Centered Philosophy of Immortalism and Cryonics by R.C.W. Ettinger .  It is possible that...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Universal Salvation

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The Church of Perpetual Life claims the nineteenth century philosopher Nikolai Fyodorov as one of its prophets .  As a participant in the ...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Bobiverse

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Twice within the last few days, someone that I was conversing with from the Transhumanist community mentioned a far future technology that ...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

Cryonics Institute

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I have been talking about moving to Michigan for a couple of years now because it is too hot in Texas and it is getting hotter .  Many of m...
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