Lifeboat Strategy
By James Blodgett
Our human future could be very good or very bad. We might settle the
reachable universe, we might live forever, or we might go extinct. What
we do right now might make the difference.
I have said that, when addressing existential risk, giving up and hiding
under the bed is usually not the best strategy. However, sometimes it
may be best, because strategy sometimes backfires.
Chasing existential opportunity could be an existential risk too,
because it could fail to work and eliminate the opportunity. This column
tries to replicate the talk a football coach gives to his team before
the big game: “Get out there and win!” Big guys trying to clobber each
other—what could possibly go wrong? Because of this, the University of
Chicago abolished its football team in 1939 (and reestablished it in
1963). First do no harm. But if we want to improve a situation, it is
impossible to totally eliminate the possibility of harm. At least think
about, and be careful about, possible side effects.
Pride Month
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Building Musk’s Path to Mars
Read Special Report “Building Musk’s path to Mars” by our John
Strickland at https://lifeboat.com/ex/building.musks.....to.mars
To the public, the media and even some of the space community, the last
year for SpaceX has not seemed to be progressing that fast. However,
right before our eyes, what Musk calls “stage zero”, the complex launch
tower and associated platform and tank farm, was being designed and
built and is now almost ready to support launches. Steady progress has
been made in the production of and design improvements to the two main
space vehicles, the Starship stage and the Super Heavy booster. The
capacity to build more vehicles at Boca Chica is shortly to be four
times larger, as a much larger high bay building nears completion.
Blog
Recent interesting blog posts include:
“The $93-billion plan to put astronauts back on the Moon” by Logan
Thrasher Collins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/the-9...the-moon
“A Cancer Trial’s Unexpected Result: Remission in Every Patient” by Sean
Brazell at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/a-can...-patient
“A greater world is possible! Adriano V. Autino presents his book” by
Adriano Autino at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/a-gre...his-book
“A Promising Method for Life-Detection” by Dirk Schulze-Makuch at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/a-pro...etection
“A researcher’s avatar was sexually assaulted on a metaverse platform
owned by Meta” by Nicholi Avery at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/a-res...rm-owned
“About 200 years ago, the world started getting rich. Why?” by Ken
Otwell at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/about...rich-why
“AI system inspects astronauts’ gloves for damage in real-time” by
Shahriar Mahmud at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/ai-sy...eal-time
“An already-approved drug could help repair the brain after a stroke” by
Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/an-al...a-stroke
“Are NFTs Bad for the Environment?” by Steve Nichols at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/are-n...ironment
“Blood Test #3 in 2022: Supplements, Diet” by Mike Lustgarten at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/blood...nts-diet
“Bold Biotech Startup Set to Bring TIGER and ZEBRA Meat to Your Dinner
Plates This Year” by Jeff Myers at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/bold-...his-year
“Could We All Be Martians?” by Dirk Schulze-Makuch at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/could...martians
“Cybernetic Theory: Interpretive Model of Everything We Call the
Universe” by Alex Vikoulov at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/cyber...universe
“Directly Imaging Exoplanets with Dr. Thayne Currie” by Alan Jurisson at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/direc...e-currie
“Energy Dome launches world’s first CO2 battery energy storage facility”
by Shane Hinshaw at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/energ...facility
“Exploring Space with NASA Astronaut Victor Glover (Live from the
Smithsonian)” by Alan Jurisson at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/explo...thsonian
“The first fully automated mind-controlled Human arm” by Heather Blevins
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/the-f...uman-arm
“First human patient injected with revolutionary cancer-killing virus”
by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/first...ng-virus
“Fmr. Marine Elliot Ackerman: Ukraine Has a Three-to-One Advantage |
Amanpour and Company” by Sergio Tarrero at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/fmr-m...-company
“Gwynne Shotwell says SpaceX will reach Mars by 2030! But why must we
become multiplanetary?” by Ron Friedman at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/gwynn...lanetary
“Ironic! Norway is Building a Massive Wind Farm to Boost Oil Production”
by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/ironi...oduction
“Is Aging Reversible? A Scientific Look with David Sinclair (Clip from a
TEDx) (S/T en Español)” by Andrés Grases at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/is-ag...-espanol
“It’s Official: Astronomers Have Discovered Another Earth” by Eamon
Everall at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/its-o...er-earth
“MIT joins a major startup backed by Bill Gates to build a viable fusion
machine” by Gemechu Taye at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/mit-j...-machine
“NASA InSight Still Hunting Marsquakes as Power Runs Down (News Audio +
Visuals)” by Alan Jurisson at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/nasa-...-visuals
“Neil deGrasse Tyson Reacts to Elon Musk Buying Twitter” by Sergio
Tarrero at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/neil-...-twitter
“New laser-drilled filter can remove microplastics from wastewater” by
Liliana Alfair at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/new-l...stewater
“New transistor could cut 5% from world’s digital energy budget” by
Chima Wisdom at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/new-t...y-budget
“Organic Transistors Explained. Printing CPUs at Home. What is Smart
Skin” by Ken Otwell at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/organ...art-skin
“Power to the Players” by Sergio Tarrero at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/power...-players
“Science rejuvenates woman’s skin cells to 30 years younger — BBC News”
by Jimmy Quaresmini at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/scien...bbc-news
“Scientists prove diseased blood vessels communicate with the brain” by
Nicholi Avery at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/scien...he-brain
“Space hotel with artificial gravity will be in orbit by 2025” by
Omuterema Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/space...-by-2025
“Starship 24 ready to fly to orbit!” by Adriano Autino at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/stars...to-orbit
“Technological innovation is spurring evolutionary changes. Here’s how
humanity may look 10,000 years from now” by Len Rosen at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/techn...from-now
“Tesla Model Y with new 4680 cells shows impressive potential for faster
charging” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/tesla...charging
“These Nanobots Can Swim Around a Wound and Kill Bacteria” by Dan Kummer
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/these...bacteria
“This pistonless engine runs on hydrogen and revs to 25k rpm” by Claudio
Soprano at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/this-...-25k-rpm
“Top 20 Awesome Robot Animals” by Ovie Desire at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/top-2...-animals
“Towards The Cybernetic Theory of Mind | Part V of Consciousness:
Evolution of the Mind Documentary” by Alex Vikoulov at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/towar...umentary
“Transparency on demand: A novel process can render artificial materials
transparent or even entirely invisible” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/trans...nvisible
“Using an Endemic Virus as a Gene Therapy for Life Extension” by Montie
Adkins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/using...xtension
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