9:30 - Missed Michael Vassar’s talk. 9:50 - Gregory Stock is talking. He is skeptical about progress in the bio realm. He says that the FDA is a damper on progress, but he also says that there are difficult problems. He brings up Alzheimer’s as an example. I …
Martin talks about the future of the cosmos and our responsibility to prevent existential risks at a long now foundation seminar.
Nice to see H+ memes coming from the president of the Royal Society.
H/T Tom McCabe @ Kurzweil AI
Here are some background pointers: A list of projects in this space. The Diaspora project is listed under “deployable on commodity webhosting”. I was under the impression that they are actually more of a p2p application. A set of ideas for this space on the …
I’m pretty excited about the Diaspora project generating a groundswell of support. They managed to raise $170K in two weeks through kickstarter (they asked for $10K). Why am I excited? I’ve written before about walled gardens and user controlled Internet apps. …
Tihamer Toth-Fejel writes about Productive Nanosystems and the 2009 Financial Meltdown.
The collisions between unstoppable juggernauts and immovable obstacles are always fascinating—we just cannot tear our eyes away from the immense conflict, especially if we …
As a Cryonics member, I became interested in a new initiative to fixate the brain in a plastic medium: brainpreservation.org Would be excellent to have a high fidelity preservation procedure that doesn’t require maintenance (such as liquid nitrogen in the case …
After attending a couple of Quantified Self meetups, I was inspired to quantify various aspects of myself and my life. For example, I was wondering if I am breathing well while I sleep, since I have been waking up tired on occasion. I bought the Contec CMS50-F …