YouTube Channel
The Lifeboat Foundation has launched our YouTube channel at
https://youtube.com/lifeboathq
We are initially launching it with Asteroids, Biotech/Medical,
Cybercrime/Malcode, Cryptocurrency, Drones, Educational, Existential
Risks, Futurism, Life Extension, Nanotechnology, Neuroscience, Nuclear,
Particle Accelerator, Particle Physics, Robotics/AI, Space Settlement,
Sustainability, and Transparency and Privacy videos.
Important videos on this channel include:
"Blue Beauty: Our Beautiful Earth" at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKv3xRB8zIE
"The Doomsday Curve" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKmlljhVC_4
"Existential Risks - An Educational Video for the Lifeboat
Foundation by Dr. Kim Solez" at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCTKsan7FT0
Lifeboat Foundation Essays
An interesting activity that is relevant to Lifeboat concerns has been
provided for us by the Foundational Questions Institute, styled FQXi. They recently ran an essay contest on the topic, "How should humanity
steer the future?". This contest was announced to Lifeboat members.
Fifteen of the 155 posted essays are written by Lifeboat members, and
some are written by top scientists. The contest is closed to
submissions, but we can still participate.
Members of the public are invited to read and rate essays on the FQXi
website. Public ratings will not decide the winners, but they may guide
official judges. Essay quality varies, and the best might make a real
contribution, so FQXi could use help in finding which are best. Their
diversity is also interesting, and might show us paths we could take,
and perhaps paths to avoid.
Lifeboat members who submitted essays include James Blodgett, Frank
Boehm, Angelika Domschke, James Dunn, Preston Estep, Bob Freeman,
Giorgio Gaviraghi, Jacob Haqq-Misra, Orenda Urbano Hernández, Alexander
Hoekstra, Ted Howard, Valkyrie Ice, Randal A. Koene, Alexander MacRae,
Federico Pistono, Walter Putnam, and Tihamer Toth-Fejel.
The essays are posted at http://fqxi.org/community/forum/category/31422
Vote today!
Blog
M. A. Greenstein joins our blog team with the post "R U Ready to be
Uploaded?" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/r-u-re...uploaded
Recent interesting blog posts include:
"Affirmation / ES Technical Note on LHC Collider Safety (p-p/MBH)" by
Tom Kerwick at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/05/conclu...r-safety
"Bionic Athletes With Exoskeletons, Robotic Limbs, and Brain-Control Devices to Compete in 2016 Cybathlon"
by Seb at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/bionic...ybathlon
"Could Mind-reading Technology Become Harmful?" by Harry J. Bentham at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/could-...-harmful
"The Realistic Cost Of The Next Space Race" by Benjamin T. Solomon at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/05/the-re...ace-race
"This Is What A Holographic iPhone Might Look Like" by Seb at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/05/this-i...ook-like
"What to make of the film 'Transcendence'? Show it in classrooms" by
Steve Fuller at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/05/what-t...assrooms
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,
J. Broadbent: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Anonymous: $10,
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.
