The Future of Humanity Chat
Dan Berleant, author of our "The Human Race to the Future" at
http://amzn.to/1O6uADY will be moderating a chat room discussion on "The
Future of Humanity".
It will be held Sunday, July 3 at 6:30 PM PDT which is 9:30 PM EDT and
2:30 AM UTC. You can participate at http://lifeboat.com/chat
Ninth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
The Ninth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence will be held in
New York on July 16-19. Our Joscha Bach, Eric Baum, Antonio Chella,
Haris Dindo, Stan Franklin, Ben Goertzel, Bill Hibbard, Marcus Hutter,
Matthew Iklé, Ed Keller, Randal Koene, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Christian
Lebiere, Moshe Looks, Gary Marcus, Florin Popescu, Alexey Potapov,
Sebastian Rudolph, Rafal Rzepka, Ricardo Sanz, Jürgen Schmidhuber,
Leslie Smith, Bas Steunebrink, Claes Strannegård, Julian Togelius, Pei
Wang, and Roman Yampolskiy will be participating/speaking.
Learn more at http://agi-conf.org/2016
D.N.A. - Gene Therapies Congress
Learn how you can support the D.N.A. - Gene Therapies Congress at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/d-n-...gress--3
Blog
Eric Baum joins our blog team with the post "TruthSift: A Platform for
Collective Rationality" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/05/truths...ionality
Bruno Henrique de Souza joins our blog team with the post "Military
Spider Man-like technology" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/05/milita...chnology
Alexandra Whittington joins our blog team with the post "How legit is
your luxury item?" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/06/how-le...ury-item
Recent interesting blog posts include:
"Aggressive, sparkplug-free gasoline auto engines with high efficiency"
by Shailesh Prasad at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/06/aggres...ficiency
"All aboard the Immortality Bus: the man who says tech will help us live
forever" by Zoltan Istvan at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/06/all-ab...-forever
"Biological nano-drones can vaccinate against cancer" by Klaus Baldauf
at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/06/biolog...t-cancer
"Chinese Surgeon Planning the World’s First Full Head Transplant" by Dan
Kummer at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/06/chines...ansplant
"Future terrorist attacks could be carried out by drones carrying
buckets of ACID" by Zoltan Istvan at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/06/future...-of-acid
"It Wasn't a Fluke — Scientists See Black Holes Collide Again" by Dan
Kummer at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/06/it-was...de-again
"Lab-grown sperm makes healthy offspring" by Shailesh Prasad at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/06/lab-gr...ffspring
"Learning: we're doing it wrong" by Magaly Santiago at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/06/learni...it-wrong
"Marrying superconductors, lasers, and Bose-Einstein condensates" by
Karen Hurst at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/06/marryi...densates
"Miami's DiAmante produces synthetic diamonds for high-tech
applications" by Karen Hurst at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/06/miamis...ications
"MMTP — Major Mouse Testing Program — Interview with David Gems" by
Steve Hill at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/06/mmtp-m...vid-gems
"New paper claims that the EM Drive doesn't defy Newton’s 3rd law after
all" at Andreas Matt at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/06/new-pa...fter-all
"Physicists Just Entangled 10 Photon Pairs And Set A New World Record"
by Shailesh Prasad at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/06/physic...d-record
"Physicists say they've figured out how to 'see' inside a black hole" by
Andreas Matt at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/06/physic...ack-hole
"Ripple Secures NY Bitcoin License" by Odette Gregory at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/06/ripple...e-pymnts
"Scientists Say They’ve Unearthed A Completely New Kind Of Meteorite" by
Sean Brazell at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/06/scient...eteorite
"Scientists seek new physics using ORNL's intense neutrino source" by
Karen Hurst at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/06/scient...o-source
"Startup creates renewable hydrogen energy out of sunlight and water" by
Andreas Matt at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/06/startu...nd-water
"We just got better at detecting this phenomenon in quantum physics that
Einstein thought was too 'spooky' to be real" by Sean Brazell at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/06/we-jus...-be-real
"World's first 1,000-processor chip" by Bruno Henrique de Souza at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/06/worlds...sor-chip
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since our last newsletter:
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Kepler Space Institute: $100,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Venita Davis: $25,
Joel D. Isaacson: $25,
Nicholas MacDonald: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Brent L. Reitze: $25,
Rebecca R. Cooper: $10,
Taurus Londono: $10,
Alexander Macrae: $10,
Philip Morehead: $10,
Roland Schiefer: $10,
Peter Smafield: $10,
Joel D. Ticknor: $10,
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