Seal of Approval
The second edition of our book "The Human Race to the Future: What Could
Happen — and What to Do" received the Seal of Approval from the
Washington Academy of Sciences.
You can learn more about this Seal of Approval at
http://www.washacadsci.org/activities-a...pproval/
You can read our book at http://amzn.to/1cujxeG
The Washington Academy of Sciences is looking for more books to consider
for their Seal of Approval. If you have authored a science-heavy book
that you think would pass a rigorous scientific review, send Peg Kay an
email at
Artificial Intelligence & The Singularity Update
Our Zoltan Istvan, Scott Jackisch, Pavel Luksha, Gary Marcus, Hank
Pellissier, Anna Petrova, Fred Stitt, and Peter Voss will be speaking at
the Artificial Intelligence & The Singularity conference which will be
held September 20th in Piedmont, California.
Learn more at
http://brighterbrains.org/articles/entr...ember-20
Into the Cloud Update
In the March 2014 edition of Lifeboat News we talked about our new cloud
setup which had 75 times as much bandwidth as our old dedicated server
setup.
At the suggestion of our Chris Haley (and with his help), we have now
taken advantage of advancements in technology and have "downgraded" our
Linode plan to a new plan that costs half as much as our old Linode plan
but has twice the bandwidth of that plan. So we now have 150 times as
much bandwidth as our old dedicated server setup! (We are also now based
on SSDs instead of hard drives.)
By the way, if you happen to be a customer of Linode note that their
estimated times to change your setup to a new plan are wildly off. For
example, we were quoted 18 minutes on moving our setup to a new location
and it actually took only 3 minutes.
Blog
Nick Cordingly joins our blog team with the post "Justice Beyond Privacy"
at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/09/justic...-privacy
Recent interesting blog posts include:
"Artificial Intelligence: How Algorithms Make Systems Smart" by Seb at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/09/artifi...ms-smart
"What if Destiny were real? The UK's cities imagined with space travel"
by Seb at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/09/what-i...e-travel
"Why Superintelligence May Not Help Us Think about Existential Risks — or Transhumanism" by Steve Fuller at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/09/why-su...humanism
"Why the Ebola Fire can Almost Not be Stopped Anymore" by Otto E. Rössler
at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/09/why-th...any-more
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since our last newsletter:
Michael Dickey: $85,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Anonymous: $11.91 (composed of 0.0250646 bitcoins),
Rebecca R. Cooper: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
Alexander Macrae: $10,
Aaron Mayzes: $10,
Philip Morehead: $10,
and Roland Schiefer: $10.
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.
