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Peter Thiel writes regarding the failure of Democracy to preserve freedom and some possible technofix strategies. He includes are thoughts about creating freedom in Cyberspace, Outer space or on the high seas. I think it would be interesting to build certain …

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[ I’ve started this article 2 years ago - will post it now even though I feel it is incomplete. ] I’d like to propose a somewhat simplified approach to eliminate aging, given early-stage molecular robots and following the SENS approach to aging. Results in …

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Chris Phoenix is writing an interesting series of articles over at CRN about the dynamics of the development of molecular engineering. His thesis, as far as I understand it after the first three articles, is that we’re likely to see a fast takeoff, because …

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I’ve been thinking about what we learned about freedom from the open-source movement. I think one of the more important benefits of freedom is that it is generative. You can glue things together in ways that create completely new things. For example, you can …

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Wired reports that Obama’s administration sided with the previous administration in a federal court filing. To all the people that said Obama’s FISA vote was political expediency - you were wrong - it’s policy. H/T: Slashdot

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Fun video with accurate structures and mechanism, although motions are not realistic (Brownian motion is not goal directed). The third video is the most involved. H/T: Eric Drexler

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First, Obama votes for FISA, effectively saying that it’s okay for AT&T and other telcos in cahoots with the president to violate the constitution by spying on people without a warrant. Then he appoints an ex-RIAA lawyer to a top DOJ post - corporate interests …

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I have previously mentioned my estimator for when human scale computation power will be available. I have since realized that the bottleneck might be memory rather than computation. I’ve created a similar estimator for memory. Although we may achieve human …

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Brian Wang writes about technologies to watch for 2009, including Memristors, high speed networking, optical computing and quantum computing.

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GitTorrent (described on Advogato) is a really distributed version control system, based on Git and BitTorrent. It seems to hold the promise of: Public keys (PGP) are used for authenticating changes No central web site for a project Easy forking of projects …

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