Lifeboat Foundation

A general theory of intelligence by Ben Goertzl.

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In 1,860, Auguste Mariette unearthed an exceptional sculpture while excavating a mastaba in the Saqqara necropolis, north of the Step Pyramid of Djoser.

Egyptian workers quickly realized the uniqueness of the discovery and, impressed by its realism, named it Sheikh el-Beled (Arabic for the village head, that is, the mayor), possibly because it reminded them of someone from their locality.

It actually represents Kaaper, an Egyptian nobleman who lived in the late fourth or early fifth dynasty (circa 2500 BC); the mastaba (today called the Kaaper mastaba or Saqqara C8) was the burial place of his family. Since that, another sculpture of what is believed to be his wife was also found, although the name has not been preserved.

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Evidence shows strong outflowing winds responsible for the “Fermi bubbles”.

A new type of room temperature sodium-sulfur (RT Na-S) battery could help solve the renewable energy storage problem.

Google will kill off products when they realize they will not have a dominant market position, even if the product has a healthy user base and is profitable, former company insiders have told me.

It doesn’t make sense for Google to invest in smaller projects that have exceeded their growth potential, especially if they are niche and losing money.

So many projects are killed by Google that an independent entity has created a website called Killed by Google.

The method can be used on any time-sensitive natural disaster.

In 2011, northeast Japan was struck by a devastating tsunami that claimed the lives of about 18,500 people. Since then, the nation has been focused on preventing a similar outcome in the future.

“The main advantage of our method is the speed of predictions, which is crucial for early warning,” explained Iyan Mulia, the work’s lead and a scientist at RIKEN.

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The FTX collapse has far-reaching consequences.

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have been sued alongside Gemini, the crypto exchange they founded, over charges of fraud by investors in the company, Markets Insider.

Tyler and Cameron, popularly known as Winklevoss twins, have a long history in the technology sector and first made headlines when they sued Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that they had stolen their idea of a social networking site, when he churned out The Facebook, as it was then known.

Zuckerberg has stated that he expects it to take up to a decade for the metaverse to go mainstream.

Virtual reality (VR) technology, once hailed as the next big thing in the tech industry, has yet to live up to its hype. According to data acquired by CNBC.

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