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FTX cryptocurrency platform goes bankrupt and Bankman-Fried resigns

The embattled company finally declares its insolvency.

The head of the FTX cryptocurrency platform Sam Bankman-Fried has officially declared the company bankrupt and resigned from his position in a statement. FTX in a not-surprising move has finally declared its insolvency. After a long stretch of financial difficulties, after having saved many other cryptocurrency companies.

The company had been doling out Bitcoin at a rapid rate and found itself in trouble earlier this year. The head of the company, Sam Bankman-Fried had made headlines by saying he would give away his billions to help other cryptocurrency companies.

Bitcoin, who lost millions on FTX’s bid to be bought by Binance as their decision-makers decided not to bail out the company when it began to flounder.


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FTX in a not-surprising move has finally declared its insolvency. After a long stretch of financial difficulties, after having saved many other cryptocurrency companies.

Incredibly, Microbes Inside Our Mouths Turn Into a Superorganism That Moves Around

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https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2209699119
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum_sensing.
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Biofilm communication and bacterial cities: https://youtu.be/4M872c27bSc.
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What’s next after NASA’s asteroid crash? A New Study on the Environmental Impact of Bitcoin & more

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Welcome everybody to our first episode of Science News without the gobbledygook. Today we’ll talk about this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, trouble with the new data from the Webb telescope, what’s next after NASA’s collision with an asteroid, new studies about the environmental impact of Bitcoin and exposure to smoke from wildfires, a test run of a new electric airplane, and dogs that can smell mathematics.

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00:35 Nobel Prize in Physics 2022
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04:05 What’s next after NASA’s asteroid crash test?
06:48 New Study about the Environmental Impact of Bitcoin Mining.
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09:42 New Study about Air Pollution from Wildfires.
10:44 Dogs Can Smell Maths.
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The Obligatory Mind Uploading Blockchain Crossover

A classic thought experiment in the philosophy of mind is reduplication, in which a person (or her mind) is duplicated such that two or more descendant people of shared mental ancestry now exist where previously there was one. The philosophical quandary is to resolve what happened to the original person’s identity. Did she survive and if so, in which of the resulting people’s minds? Which of the two resulting people is the original and which is a mere copy of denigrated identity status? Alternatively, is there something fundamentally wrong with the wording of such questions, such that we should we adopt a different perspective on the nature of personal identity that offers alternative solutions to the reduplication quandary? Reduplication further arises not only in abstract philosophical musings, but also in the futuristic and variously conceivable (depending on the reader’s tastes), technology of mind uploading, in which a person’s physical brain is emulated via the technology of whole brain emulation. While mind uploading might produce a single result, such as if the original brain is destroyed by the uploading process and only one upload is created, we can also conceive of either nondestructive scenarios (in which the original brain is not destroyed) or scenarios that produce multiple uploads. Either case results in multiple descendant minds, each operating in distinct physical systems (brains or cloned brains, or computers of some sort). The philosophy of personal identity has produced several possible stances on the nature of personal identity. The most popular are body identity and psychological identity, with other options including closest continuer identity, space-time worm identity and branching identity. However, there is always room for new theories to enter the discussion. The way in which blockchains work, and Bitcoin’s mining process and protocol for handling orphaned blocks, suggests a new theory of identity along with a new solution to the reduplication problem. The proposed blockchain solution to personal identity has applications to the handling of the reduplication problem as it may arise during a futuristic mind uploading procedure.

A blockchain holds a hashed transaction ledger, essentially the history of all transactions encoded to prevent any subsequent alteration of the history. In this way, all transactions back to the beginning of the ledger’s history can be confirmed by any interested party. Deceit, fraud, and other attempts to undermine the history simply don’t work, and consequently blockchains enable a variety of interactions with the currently most popular being digital currency. In addition to more conventional applications, blockchains could also be used to assign identity status (original or copy) to the descendent minds of a mind uploading procedure. Each descendant could then venture out into the world confident that their identity status will be honored by all third parties thereafter. Let us call this the blockchain theory of personal identity.

Growing up in a Metaverse

This metaverse meme video is about wojak who grows old in a metaverse. From the moment he is still a child and has his first school day, he already lives through his vr glasses. His school is in the metaverse, as well as his friends. Years later, he starts doubting about how “normal” living meta actually is. Didn’t people maybe have a better life back when there was no metaverse? When you did stuff offline? Who knows…

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Guy Who Invented the Word “Metaverse” Building His Own Metaverse

The science fiction icon who coined and popularized the term “metaverse” is pausing his literary career to build his own.

As revealed by Wired, “Snow Crash” author and cyberpunk pioneer Neal Stephenson is working with a crypto bro to create an open metaverse platform that will, its creators hope, be a more decentralized version of the types of Big Tech metaverses like those run by Fortnite and Facebook.

“It’s like Neal is coming down out of the mountains like Gandalf, to restore the metaverse to an open, decentralized, and creative order,” said robotics and augmented reality entrepreneur Rony Abovitz, who is also acting as a strategic advisor to Lamina1, the company Stephenson is cofounding with Bitcoin Foundation head Peter Vessenes.

Do We Live in a Brave New World? — Aldous Huxley’s Warning to the World

A possible world fortunately not the only one to choose from the choice is ours.


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Scientists Create Artificial Life That Reproduces In a Strange Way

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Team builds first living robots—that can reproduce


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Black Holes May Be Covered in Vortex Structures According to New Study

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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1060182
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.01639.pdf.
https://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.jsp?med_id=59577&from=
https://www.rle.mit.edu/cua_pub/ketterle_group/Projects_2001…Vortex.htm.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.061302
ISS experiments: https://youtu.be/UEEccJLYVXM
Another similar finding: https://youtu.be/FsTbMfQP7b0
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