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Oct 29, 2020
Arzu Al Siam joins our blog team with the post Fusion Will Probably Be More Expensive Than Wind and Solar.
Oct 26, 2020
Roman Bauer, who helped create BioDynaMo, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. BioDynaMo is a software platform to easily create, run, and visualise 3D agent-based biological simulations.
Oct 24, 2020
Read Bitcoin for Beginners by Lifeboat Foundation Advisory Board member Clayton Rawlings.
Oct 22, 2020
Kiran Manam joins our blog team with the post Gene-edited livestock ‘surrogate sires’ successfully made fertile.
Oct 22, 2020
J.P. Medved joins our blog team with the post 3 Essential Benefits of Genetic Testing for Longevity.
Oct 21, 2020
Read issue #219 of Lifeboat News!
Oct 14, 2020
Francesca Minerva, author of The Ethics of Cryonics, joins our Ethics Board and our Life Extension Board.
Oct 14, 2020
Louis Rosenberg, Chief Scientist of the artificial Intelligence company Unanimous AI, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Oct 10, 2020
Raphael Ramos joins our blog team with the post NVIDIA Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls.
Oct 9, 2020
Read Special Report
The Great Matrix of Big History
by Lifeboat Foundation Advisory Board member
William Grassie.
Our European ancestors once understood the universe to be a Great
Chain of Being. All the entities of the world — animal,
vegetable, mineral — were hierarchically organized. At the bottom
were metals, precious metals, and precious stones. Then came plants and
trees, followed by wild animals and domesticated animals. Humans were
also hierarchically ordered from children to women to men and further
into the different ranks of commoners, nobility, princes, and kings.
The Great Chain of Being continued up into the celestial realm —
moon, stars, angels, and archangels — to the very top where God
presides over the entire creation. This scala naturae provided
humans with a natural order, which they also understood to be a natural
human order that structured their societies.
Oct 6, 2020
Read issue #218 of Lifeboat News!
Oct 4, 2020
Kelly Idehen joins our blog team with the post The Road to Human 2.0.
Sep 30, 2020
Greg Allison joins our blog team with the post Life On Venus — How Could It Have Gotten There?
Sep 29, 2020
Read Special Report
Rise of the Machines: How, When and Consequences of Artificial General Intelligence
by Lifeboat Foundation Advisory Board member
Richard J. Terrile.
Technology and society are poised to cross an important threshold
with the prediction that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will
emerge soon. Assuming that self-awareness is an emergent behavior of
sufficiently complex cognitive architectures, we may witness the
“awakening” of machines. The timeframe for this kind of
breakthrough, however, depends on the path to creating the network and
computational architecture required for strong AI.
If understanding and
replication of the mammalian brain architecture is required, technology
is probably still at least a decade or two removed from the resolution
required to learn brain functionality at the synapse level. However, if
statistical or evolutionary approaches are the design path taken to
“discover” a neural architecture for AGI, timescales for
reaching this threshold could be surprisingly short.
