I don't believe anyone has taken it seriously in the last half-decade, if you find counter-evidence for that belief let me know.

What evidence do you base those beliefs on?

Checking Alcor¹ and the Cryonics Institute² suggests no :-/

¹: https://www.alcor.org/news/ ²: https://cryonics.org/case-reports/

I doubt either site would be updated with info about an ongoing cryopreservation.

> I guess the question is not has attention spans declined, I think pretty much everyone can say yes.

What evidence do you base that belief on?

This is a submission to a [contest](https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/01/01/mysterious-mysterie...) SMTM are running, so the author is very likely not the normal authors of SMTM.

I still think it's important to note that the blog's work is shoddy. The fact that this blog post is #1 on HN means that multiple people will read SMTM's other blog posts, which contain several falsehoods that they've refused to fix.

See, for example, this page https://manifold.markets/Natalia/how-many-of-these-falsemisl... for an incomplete list. I have been trying to get them to remove falsehoods from their blog for over one year, but it's impossible.

>The fact that this blog post is #1 on HN means that multiple people will read SMTM's other blog posts, which contain several falsehoods that they've refused to fix.

That was prescient: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36854850

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's a probability attached to that statement.