International Space Development Conference 2024
The International Space Development Conference 2024 will be held May
23–26 in Los Angeles, California. Our Gary Barnhard, Sherry E. Bell,
Michelle Hanlon, Janet Ivey, Rod Pyle, Alan Stern, and Peter A. Swan
will be speaking.
Learn more at https://inside.nss.org/events/EventDeta...=1801507
Kavli-IAU Symposium 2024 Update
The Kavli-IAU Symposium 2024 “(Toward) Discovery of Life Beyond Earth
and its Impact” will be held April 15–19, 2024 in Durham, UK and in
Cyberspace.
Our Eleni Chatzichristou, Kathryn Denning, Daniela de Paulis, Jacob
Haqq-Misra, Sohan Jheeta, Andjelka B. Kovacevic, Erik Persson, Perig
Pitrou, George Profitiliotis, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Leslie Tennen,
Olli-Pekka Vainio, Stephen Webb, and David Whitehouse will be speaking.
Learn more at https://kavli-iau-2024.durham.ac.uk/wordpress
Rejuvenation Startup Summit 2024 Update
Rejuvenation Startup Summit 2024 will be held May 10–11 in Berlin.
Our Bobby Brooke, Stephanie Dainow, Greg M. Fahy, Peter Fedichev,
Michael Greve, Lorna Harries, Jean M. Hébert, Brian K. Kennedy, Dobri
Kiprov, Mike Kope, Robin Mansukhani, Phil Newman, Matthew O’Connor,
Marco Quarta, Frank Schueler, Petr Sramek, and Mourad (Toporsian) Topors
will be speaking.
Learn more at https://forever-healthy.org/summit
Audio
Listen to “MacroVoices #390 Matt Barrie: The awesome power and risk of Artificial Intelligence” by our Matt Barrie at https://www.macrovoices.com/1230-macrov...lligence
Books
Read “Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna”
by our Dennis McKenna at https://amzn.to/3ve4Rq5
Read our David Brin’s “Out of Time” series at
http://www.davidbrin.com/outoftime.html
Would you want to be Yanked out of time… if it meant you could help
save the future?
This series of Young Adult books features wholly original science
fiction adventure novels, each one sending young adventurers hurtling
out of today’s vexing world into a future where they face real troubles,
before returning home with fresh perspective.
Read “The Future of the Self: An Interdisciplinary Approach to
Personhood and Identity in the Digital Age 1st Edition” by our Jay
Friedenberg at https://amzn.to/3vqI8XJ
Papers
Read “AI know what you did last summer” by our Matt Barrie at
https://medium.com/@matt_11659/ai-know-what-you-did-last-summer-255176dcd1bc
Read “Contrastive Preference Learning: Learning from Human Feedback
without RL”, coauthored by our W. Bradley Knox at
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13639
Read “Generative AI and science communication in the physical sciences”,
coauthored by our Fil Menczer at
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254&...1-7.epdf
Read “Higher Dimensional Reframing of Unity and Memorable Identity” by
our Anthony Judge at
https://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs20...ars4.php
Read “Ilya Sutskever’s thoughts on AI safety (July 2023): a transcript
with my comments”, authored by our Michael Bukatin at
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TpKktHS...y-2023-a
Videos
Watch the YouTube channel “Conquer Aging Or Die Trying!” by our Michael Lustgarten at https://www.youtube.com/@conqueragingordietrying1797
Blog
Recent interesting blog posts include:
“A Superconductor Found in Nature Has Rocked the Scientific World” by
Dan Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/a-sup...ic-world
“Aerospace experts design liquid hydrogen-powered jet that can travel
halfway around world with no layover: ‘A pivotal moment’” by Joseph
Barney at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/aeros...l-moment
“AGI in 3 to 8 years” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/agi-i...-8-years
“AI agents could help better understand complex AI systems” by Dan
Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/ai-ag...-systems
“AI Gets Inner Monologue And Becomes Incredibly Smarter” by Chris
Smedley at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/ai-ge...-smarter
“AI-Powered Proof Generator Helps Debug Software” by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/ai-po...software
“An architecture for sub-picowatt logic computing based on self-biased
molybdenum disulfide transistors” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/an-ar...nsistors
“Behavioral and neural correlates to multisensory detection of sick
humans” by Arthur Brown at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/behav...k-humans
“Beyond Telomerase: The Quest for Chromosome Immortality” by Quinn Sena
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/beyon...ortality
“Bioweapons Designed by AI: a ‘Very Near-Term Concern,’ Schmidt Says” by
Zola Balazs Bekasi at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/biowe...idt-says
“China’s Hyperloop Breaks Own Speed Record, Hitting Over 623
Kilometers-Per-Hour” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/china...per-hour
“Earth Has Received Power Beamed From A Satellite In Space For The First
Time” by Joseph Barney at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/earth...rst-time
“The Fastest AI Chip in the World Explained” by Ken Otwell at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/the-f...xplained
“From Sci-Fi to Reality: Scientists Develop Unbreakable, Bendable
Optical Sensor” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/from-...l-sensor
“God’s Number Revealed: 20 Moves Proven Enough to Solve Any Rubik’s Cube
Position” by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/gods-...position
“Intriguing science discoveries of 2023” by Omuterema Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/intri...-of-2023
“James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with
our understanding of the universe” by Robert Bosnjak at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/james...universe
“Legendary shipwreck’s treasure of ‘incalculable value’ will be
recovered by underwater robot, Colombia says” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/legen...bia-says
“Living Longer, Living Better: Gene Therapy’s Stunning Progress For
Longevity” by Montie Adkins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/livin...ongevity
“Minesto Underwater ‘Kite’ Begins Delivering Electricity To Faroe
Islands” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/mines...-islands
“MIT’s Wearable Ultrasound Sticker Monitors Health of Deep Internal
Organs” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/mits-...l-organs
“NASA is struggling to compete with Bezos, Musk and their 6-figure
salaries for starting aerospace engineers at Blue Origin and SpaceX” by
Kelvin Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/nasa-...d-spacex
“New Research: Talking Faster Is Linked to Better Brain Health As We
Age” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/new-r...s-we-age
“Nvidia CEO: Soon There’ll Be Games Where AI Generates ‘Every Pixel’” by
Kelvin Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/nvidi...ry-pixel
“‘Oceans are hugely complex’: modelling marine microbes is key to
climate forecasts” by Logan Thrasher Collins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/ocean...orecasts
“Physicists Can Now Control Lightning Using Laser Beams, Making Advanced
Protection Systems” by Josh Seeherman at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/physi...-systems
“Prescription guide” by Eric Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/presc...on-guide
“Quantum Computing Will Transform AI by 2027” by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/quant...-by-2027
“The quantum world: Dreams and delusions | Roger Penrose, Sabine
Hossenfelder, Michio Kaku, and more!” by Dan Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/the-q...and-more
“Researchers find a way to detect signs of extraterrestrial life in a
single grain of ice” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/resea...n-of-ice
“Roger Guillemin (1924–2024), neuroscientist who showed how the brain
controls hormones” by The Neuro-Network at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/roger...hormones
“Russian state-backed hackers breached Microsoft’s core software
systems, company says” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/russi...any-says
“Targeting ‘Undruggable’ Proteins Promises New Approach for Treating
Neurodegenerative Diseases” by Natalie Chan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/targe...diseases
“This 3,700-Year-Old Tablet Shows The Oldest Known Example of Applied
Geometry” by Omuterema Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/this-...geometry
“This new application can detect printed document forgery” by Gemechu
Taye at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/this-...-forgery
“THIS Therapy Slows Down The Aging Clock By 31% — Successful Clinical
Cases” by Montie Adkins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/this-...al-cases
“The Trap of Delusions: Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things” by Chris
Smedley at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/the-t...d-things
“The virus that infects almost everyone, and its link to cancer and MS
— podcast” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/the-v...-podcast
“Watch: Apple’s Vision Pro is going viral with the public on internet”
by Gemechu Taye at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/watch...internet
“Webb Telescope Discovers Ancient ‘Dead’ Galaxy: A Look Back 13 Billion
Years” by Laurence Tognetti at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/webb-...on-years
“When Lab-Trained AI Meets the Real World, ‘Mistakes can Happen’” by
Natalie Chan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/when-...n-happen
“World’s first desktop computers unearthed in London house clearance” by
Gemechu Taye at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/world...learance
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