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Aug 10, 2016
AI for President
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: engineering, geopolitics, robotics/AI, transhumanism
This is a comprehensive and critical write-up on some of my policies by some leading researchers and thinkers. It’s from the magazine website of the IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization devoted to engineering and the applied sciences. Naturally, people in the field of science and engineering are some of the most difficult to please, since they are such critical thinkers (which is precisely why I like them so much):
When a transhumanist runs for president, what does that mean for society?
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Aug 10, 2016
Hydrogen molecule falls to quantum computer
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: computing, quantum physics
Extra bits —
Hydrogen molecule falls to quantum computer.
Quantum computer calculates ground state of hydrogen with just two qubits.
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Aug 10, 2016
Life Extension: How to Reach a Societal Turning Point — Talk b…
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: innovation, life extension
Keith Comito from LEAF/Lifespan.io talking about the need for a unified call to action and how we have reached a turning point in the life extension movement.
In this talk LEAF President Keith Comito explains how initatives like Lifespan.io (https://www.lifespan.io/campaigns/sens-control-alt-delete-cancer/) fit into the broader goal of building a grassroots movement in support of life extension, with the eventual aim of effecting massive societial change on the issue. If you are looking for a deep dive into the full scope of life extension advocacy, from the dawn of history to current breakthroughs and opportunities, this is it.
This presentation is part of the Designing New Advances conference held by the Institute of Exponential Sciences in the Netherlands, orchestrated by Demian Hoed and Lotte van Noort.
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Aug 10, 2016
Star Ark: A Living, Self-Sustaining Spaceship (Springer Praxis Books)
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space travel
Aug 10, 2016
Elon Musk Says SolarCity Will Sell a Roof Integrated With Solar Panels
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: Elon Musk, solar power, sustainability
Aug 10, 2016
Cooling stars hint at dark matter particles
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: cosmology, particle physics
Aug 10, 2016
First commercial asteroid mining mission set to begin before 2020
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: economics, space travel
It’s a scouting mission. I wonder how much this will cost since this is not a sample return.
Asteroid mining company Deep Space Industries (DSI) has announced the first commercial mission to a near-Earth asteroid, with launch planned by the end of the decade.
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Aug 9, 2016
Seagate’s new 60TB SSD dwarfs the others on the market
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: business, computing
Seagate has just announced a whopping 60 TB solid-state-drive, the largest SSD yet with that sort of capacity. Unfortunately, the SSD is only meant for businesses, released as an addition to Seagate’s data center portfolio. With four times the capacity of the next leading SSD, this massive hard drive could hold up to 12,000 DVD movies or even a whopping 400 million photos. Just sit back and think about how ridiculous an amount of data that really is.
The drive was created with quick accessibility in mind, and its flexibile artchitecture means it’ll be simple for data centers to grow from 60TB to accommodate 100TB or more of data in the future, all using the same form factor.
The 60TB SAS SSD is only available right now for demonstration, though it will officially make its debut some time in 2017. Unfortunately, we don’t yet know exactly what the drive itself will look like, though given the fact that it’s just a SSD, I can’t imagine it’ll look especially wild.
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