Lord Martin Rees
Guardian Award winner Lord Martin Rees, author of "Our Final Hour: A
Scientist's Warning", joins our Cosmology Board.
His other awards include the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical
Society, the Balzan International Prize, the Bruce Medal of the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
(AAS/AIP), the Bower Award for Science of the Franklin Institute, the
Cosmology Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation, the Einstein Award of
the World Cultural Council, the Crafoord Prize (Royal Swedish Academy),
the Templeton Prize, and the Isaac Newton Medal.
Martin holds the honorary title of Astronomer Royal and has received
honorary degrees from a number of universities including Sussex,
Uppsala, Toronto, Durham, Oxford, London, Yale, Greenwich, Melbourne,
and Sydney.
Note that we've been giving away free copies of "Our Final Hour" to
Economy class members and greater at https://lifeboat.com/ex/join.us for
years. (And also copies of "The Human Race to the Future" and "The
Singularity is Near".)
Learn about Martin's Guardian Award at http://lifeboat.com/ex/guardian2004
Learn more about Martin at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.martin.rees
Nikki Olson
Nikki Olson joins our Ethics Board. Nikki produced the following
educational videos for the Lifeboat Foundation: "Existential Risks" at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCTKsan7FT0, "Mixed
and Virtual Reality" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGqjaZzp5ws, and
"The AI Physician" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzo3vUxUkzY. The
Existential Risks video is currently our trailer video for our YouTube
channel at https://youtube.com/lifeboathq
Learn about Nikki at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.nikki.olson
Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Our Vasant Honavar, W. Bradley Knox, Sven Koenig, Benjamin Kuipers,
Sriraam Natarajan, Peter Stone, and Matthew E. Taylor are participating
in the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15)
which will be held January 25-29, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency in Austin,
Texas, USA. The purpose of this conference is to promote research in
artificial intelligence (AI) and scientific exchange among AI
researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers in affiliated
disciplines.
Learn more at http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai15.php
Joseph F. Coates Memorial
The Lifeboat Foundation mourns the passing of our Joseph F. Coates who
worked to "Safeguard Humanity" until the end of his life. Learn about
Joe at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.joseph.f.coates
Joe's memorial service will be held at the Mount Airy Mansion at
http://www.mountairymansion.org/home.html in Upper Marlboro, Maryland,
on Saturday, November 8th. The memorial will begin promptly at 2 pm; you
are invited to arrive shortly after 1 pm. After the memorial, everyone
will enjoy drinks, snacks, and conversation until 5 pm. There will also
be an opportunity to speak "as the spirit moves you". If you would like
to attend and/or speak at the memorial, send an email to
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that friends consider a donation
to Joe's favorite charity, Covenant House New York at
http://ny.covenanthouse.org/
Guardian Award
Let us know if you have any suggestions for our 2014 Guardian Award. This award is annually bestowed upon a respected scientist or public
figure who has warned of a future fraught with dangers and encouraged
measures to prevent them.
Past winners have included Stephen Hawking, Ray Kurzweil, Lord Martin
Rees, and Jaan Tallinn.
You can learn more at http://lifeboat.com/ex/guardian.award
Send suggestions to
Anthology
Thanks to the success of our book "The Human Race to the Future", we
will be publishing our second book. We are creating an anthology of both
short fiction stories and nonfiction articles about the future. Send an
email to
2014 Fight Aging! Fundraiser
The 2014 Fight Aging! fundraiser starts now. Get your research donations tripled. Learn more at https://www.fightaging.org/archives/201...iven.php
GETAS
The Lifeboat Foundation GETAS threat level has been raised from Guarded to Elevated due to "Largest Ebola outbreak in history has spread to
Singularity: a Brave New Musical
Learn about "Singularity: A Brave New Musical" at https://www.facebook.com/groups/199731213562712/
Books
Read the free book "The Bitcoin Revolution" at
http://diginomics.com/the-bitcoin-revolution.pdf
Read "A History of Life-Extensionism in the Twentieth Century" at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/150081...GFMMT4BD
Read "Physics from the Edge: A New Cosmological Model for Inertia" at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/981459...IWIWHWVN
Monero Donations
We now accept monero donations at monero address
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5Ug1QzRNLL5xFHyNHc6rLZbZ8GpqV1V41FzNsaxtPbg2LJd.
Learn about monero at http://www.monero.cc/
Blog
Johnny Boston joins our blog team with the post "Dr. Ken Hayworth: What
is the Future of your Mind?" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/09/dr-ken...our-mind
James Dunn joins our blog team with the post "Method of Sustainable
Fuel-less Terra-forming of Venus & Mars" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/10/method...nus-mars
Nikki Olson joins our blog team with the post "2014 Longevity and
Genetics Conference — Keynote Aubrey de Grey" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/10/2014-l...-de-grey
Joseph Rampolla joins our blog team with the post "Stopping the Spread
of Ebola through Augmented Reality" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/10/stoppi...-reality
Frans van Wamel joins our blog team with the post "Australian digital
radar innovation attracts global attention" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/09/austra...ttention
Recent interesting blog posts include:
"3D-printing objects containing multiple metals and alloys" by Seb at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/10/3d-pri...d-alloys
"The Abolition of Medicine as a Goal for Humanity 2.0" by Steve Fuller at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/10/the-ab...nity-2-0
"FUTURISM UPDATE (October 01, 2014)" by Andres Agostini at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/10/futuri...-01-2014
"Morphing material could allow robots to switch between hard and soft states" by Seb
at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/10/morphi...t-states
"Review: When Google Met WikiLeaks (2014) by Julian Assange" by Harry J. Bentham at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/09/review...-assange
"Towards a 'Right to Science'" by Steve Fuller at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/09/toward...-science
"What if your memories could live past your mortal shelf life?" by
Johnny Boston at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/10/what-i...elf-life
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since our last newsletter:
Peg Kay: $3,000,
Anonymous: $157.48 (including 100 moneros),
Roy Mitsuoka: $150,
James Tankersley Jr: $101.26 (composed of 0.25 bitcoins),
Chris K. Haley: $100,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
James Blodgett: $50,
Allen G. Taylor: $34,
André Caminoa: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
John Ratnaswamy: $25,
Matthew Felsted: $22.75,
Rebecca R. Cooper: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
Alexander Macrae: $10,
Aaron Mayzes: $10,
Philip Morehead: $10,
Roland Schiefer: $10,
Orenda Urbano Hernández: $5,
Health Internetwork: $5,
and Apphac: $1.
Our Join Us page at https://lifeboat.com/ex/join.us now allows you to
pay for your membership anywhere from monthly to every ten years.
