EA - Igor Kiriluk (1974-2022) by turchin

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Igor Kiriluk (1974-2022), published by turchin on September 3, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Igor was an organiser the first meet-up in Moscow about effective altruism around 2013. Today his body was found at his home. The day before he complained about depression and bad health. His cryopreservation now is being organised. He was also a one of four organisers of Russian Transhumanist Movement, along with Danila Medvedev, Valeria Pride and Igor Artuhov around 2003. His main topic of interest was paradise-engineering. He translated works of David Pearce. He may look detached from reality but he was first to react on new ideas and has very large network of friends everywhere: between visionaries, scientists and officials. Being a great networker, he helped many people to find each other, especially in the field of life extension. His FB page: Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.