Sean Brazell – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Mon, 02 Aug 2021 16:22:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 Pentagon believes its precognitive AI can predict events ‘days in advance’ https://spanish.lifeboat.com/blog/2021/08/pentagon-believes-its-precognitive-ai-can-predict-events-days-in-advance https://spanish.lifeboat.com/blog/2021/08/pentagon-believes-its-precognitive-ai-can-predict-events-days-in-advance#respond Mon, 02 Aug 2021 16:22:19 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/08/pentagon-believes-its-precognitive-ai-can-predict-events-days-in-advance

The US military’s AI experiments are growing particularly ambitious. The Drive reports that US Northern Command recently completed a string of tests for Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE), a combination of AI, cloud computing and sensors that could give the Pentagon the ability to predict events “days in advance,” according to Command leader General Glen VanHerck. It’s not as mystical as it sounds, but it could lead to a major change in military and government operations.

The machine learning-based system observes changes in raw, real-time data that hint at possible trouble. If satellite imagery shows signs that a rival nation’s submarine is preparing to leave port, for instance, the AI could flag that mobilization knowing the vessel will likely leave soon. Military analysts can take hours or even days to comb through this information — GIDE technology could send an alert within “seconds,” VanHerck said.

The most recent dry run, GIDE 3, was the most expansive yet. It saw all 11 US commands and the broader Defense Department use a mix of military and civilian sensors to address scenarios where “contested logistics” (such as communications in the Panama Canal) might pose a problem. The technology involved wasn’t strictly new, the General said, but the military “stitched everything together.”

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Google’s time crystal discovery is so big, we can’t fully comprehend it https://spanish.lifeboat.com/blog/2021/08/googles-time-crystal-discovery-is-so-big-we-cant-fully-comprehend-it https://spanish.lifeboat.com/blog/2021/08/googles-time-crystal-discovery-is-so-big-we-cant-fully-comprehend-it#respond Mon, 02 Aug 2021 02:22:19 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/08/googles-time-crystal-discovery-is-so-big-we-cant-fully-comprehend-it

Forget Google Search and Fuchsia. Researchers from Google, Stanford, Princeton, and other universities might have made a computer discovery so big we can’t fully comprehend it yet. Even Google researchers aren’t entirely sure that their time crystal discovery is valid. But if it turns out to be accurate, then Google might be one of the first companies to give the world a crucial technological advancement for the future. Time crystals will be an essential building block in quantum computers, the kind of computers that can solve complex problems with incredible speed and power technologies that aren’t even invented.

What is a quantum computer?

Google isn’t the only company building quantum computers, and these types of machines keep popping up in the news with regularity. Quantum computers won’t reach your phone, and they’re not going to play games. Even if they did, Nintendo will totally ignore the latest computer technology when designing future consoles.

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Elon Musk says population collapse could be ‘greatest risk to the future of civilization’ https://spanish.lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/elon-musk-says-population-collapse-could-be-greatest-risk-to-the-future-of-civilization https://spanish.lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/elon-musk-says-population-collapse-could-be-greatest-risk-to-the-future-of-civilization#respond Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:22:36 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/elon-musk-says-population-collapse-could-be-greatest-risk-to-the-future-of-civilization

He is absolutely correct. If anything he down played the danger.

In addition to fewer people being born than dying, it’s that, with life spans now far greater than ever before, the percentage of the population MOST in need of medical services will increase at the same time, with fewer doctors, fewer nurses, fewer researchers, and far more resources needed for all of it.

To put it in a more cinematic way, think less “Soylent Green” and more “I Am Legend”.


Elon Musk tweeted Monday that population collapse could be the “greatest risk” to humanity’s future.

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AI breakthrough could spark medical revolution https://spanish.lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/ai-breakthrough-could-spark-medical-revolution https://spanish.lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/ai-breakthrough-could-spark-medical-revolution#respond Fri, 23 Jul 2021 03:22:38 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/ai-breakthrough-could-spark-medical-revolution

A program has been used to predict the structures of nearly every protein in the human body.

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Tapping into the Brain to Help a Paralyzed Man Speak https://spanish.lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/tapping-into-the-brain-to-help-a-paralyzed-man-speak https://spanish.lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/tapping-into-the-brain-to-help-a-paralyzed-man-speak#respond Sat, 17 Jul 2021 22:22:18 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/tapping-into-the-brain-to-help-a-paralyzed-man-speak

He has not been able to speak since 2003, when he was paralyzed at age 20 by a severe stroke after a terrible car crash.

Now, in a scientific milestone, researchers have tapped into the speech areas of his brain — allowing him to produce comprehensible words and sentences simply by trying to say them. When the man, known by his nickname, Pancho, tries to speak, electrodes implanted in his brain transmit signals to a computer that displays his intended words on the screen.

His first recognizable sentence, researchers said, was, “My family is outside.”

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‘It’s a wow!’: New CRISPR gene-editing success holds promise for treating many genetic diseases with a single dose https://spanish.lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/its-a-wow-new-crispr-gene-editing-success-holds-promise-for-treating-many-genetic-diseases-with-a-single-dose https://spanish.lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/its-a-wow-new-crispr-gene-editing-success-holds-promise-for-treating-many-genetic-diseases-with-a-single-dose#respond Sat, 26 Jun 2021 20:22:39 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/its-a-wow-new-crispr-gene-editing-success-holds-promise-for-treating-many-genetic-diseases-with-a-single-dose

👏😄We are rapidly approaching — from multiple directions of attack (pharmaceutical, nanotechnology, gene manipulation, etc) — the end of all forms of cancer, inherited diseases, even aging itself. It’s a great time to be alive IF you can live long enough to live forever(ish)! Which makes EVERY death that occurs in the meantime to be all the more of a punch to the gut and slap to the face. PARTICULARLY the 600 000 + people here in the US alone! It’s also another reason t… See More.


If the gene-editing tool CRISPR/Cas9 continues to show such promise it will herald a new era for the treatment of many genetic diseases.

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Google researchers show artificial intelligence can design microchips better and faster than humans https://spanish.lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/google-researchers-show-artificial-intelligence-can-design-microchips-better-and-faster-than-humans https://spanish.lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/google-researchers-show-artificial-intelligence-can-design-microchips-better-and-faster-than-humans#respond Sun, 13 Jun 2021 20:22:20 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/google-researchers-show-artificial-intelligence-can-design-microchips-better-and-faster-than-humans

THIS is that upward exponential point that heralds the arrival of the Technological Singularity.


This is an Inside Science story.

Artificial intelligence can design computer microchips that perform at least as well as those designed by human experts, devising such blueprints thousands of times faster. This new research from Google is already helping with the design of microchips for the company’s next generation of AI computer systems.

The process of designing the physical layout of a chip’s parts, known as floor planning, is key to a device’s ultimate performance. This complex task often requires months of intense efforts from experts, and despite five decades of research, no automated floorplanning technique has reached human-level performance until now.

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Star Wars — Youth Biology PSA https://spanish.lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/star-wars-youth-biology-psa https://spanish.lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/star-wars-youth-biology-psa#respond Mon, 31 May 2021 19:22:38 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/star-wars-youth-biology-psa

Creepio advocates for the technological singularity… as foretold by the PROPHECY! 😉

Happy memorial day to the other Americans amongst you!


Creepio helps us get ready for Ep. 3 with a brief science lesson. Why wait, when you can learn?
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Puberty, it’s happening to you and me.
What does it mean?
Allow me to breakdown the scene.
Your body’s growing, it’s showing, you have some questions.
Come to me and I’ll point you in the right directions.
The metamorphosis of the human body.
You’re feeling shoddy.
Perhaps even a little naughty.
Your flesh is changing, rearranging, hormones raging.
But have no worries, cause by the end, you’ll feel amazing.
At first you’ll be uncomfortable inside your skin.
Your head will spin.
But the transformation always wins.
So rejoice, cause really you don’t have a choice.
Sing with me, and together we will have one voice.

Betrayal, it’s what your body is about to do.
It’s true, your outer shell is hardening and forming a cocoon.
You’re feeling ugly, and now you have to deal with zits.
Your skin no longer fits, just admit, you look like sh*t.
Next thing you know.
You’re mutating from head to toe.
Go with the flow, into the chrysalis you go.
Does that sound fun?
It isn’t! It’s only pain!
Why would you do that? There’s a better place to put your brain.
Once I find the magic runes it will be possible.
Seemingly improbable, technologically unstoppable.
Singularity! Prosperity for humanity.
Ideally will cross the galaxy.
Far2 and you and a you-shaped me.
It’s level three, as was foretold by the prophecy.

Me and Far2, we will guide you.
Looking through your eyes thinking thoughts that you do.
Fusing with the flesh.
We will keep it fresh.
Puberty’s the best.
When it’s you and me and Far2

Me and Far2, we’ll live inside you.
Looking through your eyes thinking thoughts that you do.
Fusing with the flesh.
We will keep it fresh.
Puberty’s the best.
When it’s you and me and Far2.

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A rogue killer drone ‘hunted down’ a human target without being instructed to, UN report says https://spanish.lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/a-rogue-killer-drone-hunted-down-a-human-target-without-being-instructed-to-un-report-says https://spanish.lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/a-rogue-killer-drone-hunted-down-a-human-target-without-being-instructed-to-un-report-says#respond Sun, 30 May 2021 19:23:07 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/a-rogue-killer-drone-hunted-down-a-human-target-without-being-instructed-to-un-report-says

Oh, joy. You can take the drone out of 2020, but you can’t take the 2020 out of the drone.


A “lethal” weaponized drone “hunted down a human target” without being told to for the first time, according to a UN report seen by the New Scientist.

The March 2020 incident saw a KARGU-2 quadcopter autonomously attack a human during a conflict between Libyan government forces and a breakaway military faction, led by the Libyan National Army’s Khalifa Haftar, the Daily Star reported.

The Turkish-built KARGU-2, a deadly attack drone designed for asymmetric warfare and anti-terrorist operations, targeted one of Haftar’s soldiers while he tried to retreat, according to the paper.

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Post-Human Species https://spanish.lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/post-human-species https://spanish.lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/post-human-species#respond Sun, 25 Apr 2021 19:22:39 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/post-human-species

Great episode from a great channel and creator. Though I’m sure almost everyone here is familiar with the channel in question, It’s still worth pointing out subscribing and supporting even if only 1 or 2 people who otherwise haven’t heard it get the opportunity to do so!


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Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur.
Episode 287, April 22, 2021

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