Lifeboat Foundation

Earth’s continents are (very slowly) headed for a collision.

The world is a complicated place. Bayes’ theorem can help us navigate it.

Very excited to join IdeaXme (http://radioideaxme.com/) as Longevity Ambassador, utilizing this wonderful media platform to help expand global awareness of the people engineering a future free of aging, disease, degeneration, and suffering.

What would it take to build a new, artificial planet?

How much photons are there in the universe?

An accidental discovery is giving new hope for coral reefs.

BBC Earth

Researchers from Clemson University used almost a decade of gamma ray data to map the entire observable universe for the very first time.

In a new book published this week titled Architects of Intelligence, writer and futurist Martin Ford interviewed 23 of the most prominent men and women who are working in AI today, including DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Google AI Chief Jeff Dean, and Stanford AI director Fei-Fei Li. In an informal survey, Ford asked each of them to guess by which year there will be at least a 50 percent chance of AGI being built.

Short answer: maybe within our lifetimes, but don’t hold out.