Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Mon, 15 Jul 2024 22:22:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 The AI doctor will see you…eventually https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/the-ai-doctor-will-see-youeventually https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/the-ai-doctor-will-see-youeventually#respond Mon, 15 Jul 2024 22:22:27 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/the-ai-doctor-will-see-youeventually

Artificial intelligence holds huge promise in health care. But it also faces massive barriers.

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All about Transhumanism https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/all-about-transhumanism https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/all-about-transhumanism#respond Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:27:38 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/all-about-transhumanism

I have recently read the report from Sharad Agarwal, and here are my outcomes by adding some examples:

Transhumanism is the concept of transcending humanity’s fundamental limitations through advances in science and technology. This intellectual movement advocates for enhancing human physical, cognitive, and ethical capabilities, foreseeing a future where technological advancements will profoundly modify and improve human biology.

Consider transhumanism to be a kind of upgrade to your smartphone. Transhumanism, like updating our phones with the latest software to improve their capabilities and fix problems, seeks to use technological breakthroughs to increase human capacities. This could include strengthening our physical capacities to make us stronger or more resilient, improving our cognitive capabilities to improve memory or intelligence, or even fine-tuning moral judgments. Transhumanism, like phone upgrades, aspires to maximize efficiency and effectiveness by elevating the human condition beyond its inherent bounds.

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Identification of a longevity gene through evolutionary rate covariation of insect mito-nuclear genomes https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/identification-of-a-longevity-gene-through-evolutionary-rate-covariation-of-insect-mito-nuclear-genomes https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/identification-of-a-longevity-gene-through-evolutionary-rate-covariation-of-insect-mito-nuclear-genomes#respond Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:27:25 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/identification-of-a-longevity-gene-through-evolutionary-rate-covariation-of-insect-mito-nuclear-genomes

By analyzing co-evolution of mitochondrial and nuclear genomes across insect species, the authors uncover the evolutionary covariation of a group of non-mitochondrially targeted nuclear genes with mitochondrial genes, including the uncharacterized gene CG11837, which regulates insect lifespan.

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Scientists Build a Robot Controlled by Human Brain Tissue https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/scientists-build-a-robot-controlled-by-human-brain-tissue https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/scientists-build-a-robot-controlled-by-human-brain-tissue#respond Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:27:07 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/scientists-build-a-robot-controlled-by-human-brain-tissue

Gerard Johnstone and Akela Cooper’s 2022 sci-fi horror M3GAN (streaming now on Peacock) follows the tragic childhood of Cady, a young girl whose parents are killed in a car accident. In the aftermath, Cady goes to live with her Aunt Gemma, a roboticist who has invented the Model 3 Generative Android, M3GAN for short.

M3GAN is a child-sized anthropomorphic robot with human level intelligence, designed to be the perfect friend. M3GAN’s primary directive is to keep Cady safe and happy, and it’s a job she executes with deadly seriousness. In the real world, scientists in China recently crafted a less deadly but equally spine-tingling intelligent robot controlled not by a person or by programming, but by a spheroid blob of human brain tissue.

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Replacing the A in AI: Unleashing the Power of Miniature Minds https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/replacing-the-a-in-ai-unleashing-the-power-of-miniature-minds https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/replacing-the-a-in-ai-unleashing-the-power-of-miniature-minds#respond Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:26:56 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/replacing-the-a-in-ai-unleashing-the-power-of-miniature-minds

Author: Kiyana Rahimian.

“Pick all the cells with traffic lights”… Often, when opening a website, users have to verify that they’re not automated software by completing a test where they select certain parts of a picture. Such tests are types of Automated Turing tests. The Turing test, developed by Alan Turing, helps determine if technology can replicate human intelligence. As of now, even though engineering has sought to replicate brain-like functions through developing artificial intelligence (AI), there’s been no success in replicating human brain functions. Although the human brain processes basic information, like numbers, at slower rates than machines, they are better able to process complex information. Intuitive reasoning gives human brains the means to perform considerably better with little, diverse, and/or incomplete information.8 Compared to silicon-based computers, human brains are better at data storage and are way more energy efficient.

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Cosmological constraints in symmetric teleparallel gravity with bulk viscosity https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/cosmological-constraints-in-symmetric-teleparallel-gravity-with-bulk-viscosity https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/cosmological-constraints-in-symmetric-teleparallel-gravity-with-bulk-viscosity#respond Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:26:35 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/cosmological-constraints-in-symmetric-teleparallel-gravity-with-bulk-viscosity

In this study, we explore the accelerated expansion of the universe within the framework of modified f(Q) gravity. The investigation focus on the role of bulk viscosity in understanding the universe’s accelerated expansion. Specifically, a bulk viscous matter-dominated cosmological model is considered, with the bulk viscosity coefficient expressed as $$\zeta = \zeta _0 \rho H^{-1} + \zeta _1 H $$ ζ = ζ 0 ρ H — 1 + ζ 1 H. We consider the power law f(Q) function $$f(Q)=\alpha Q^n $$ f (Q ) = α Q n, where $$\alpha $$ α and n are arbitrary constants and derive the analytical solutions for the field equations corresponding to a flat FLRW metric. Subsequently, we used the combined Cosmic Chronometers (CC)+Pantheon+SH0ES sample to estimate the free parameters of the obtained analytic solution.

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Consciousness Evolved for Social Survival, Not Individual Benefit https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/consciousness-evolved-for-social-survival-not-individual-benefit https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/consciousness-evolved-for-social-survival-not-individual-benefit#respond Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:26:19 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/consciousness-evolved-for-social-survival-not-individual-benefit

Summary: A recent study suggests that consciousness evolved not for individual survival, but for social purposes, helping humans communicate ideas and emotions. Researchers argue that intuition heavily influences our understanding of consciousness, complicating scientific explanations.

The study emphasizes that while subjective awareness lacks causal influence, it remains crucial in social contexts. This perspective challenges traditional views, suggesting that consciousness benefits the species as a whole through social interactions.

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The Mystery of Consciousness Is Deeper Than We Thought https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/the-mystery-of-consciousness-is-deeper-than-we-thought https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/the-mystery-of-consciousness-is-deeper-than-we-thought#respond Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:26:06 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/the-mystery-of-consciousness-is-deeper-than-we-thought

Despite great progress, we lack even the beginning of an explanation of how the brain produces our inner world of colors, sounds, smells and tastes. A thought experiment with “pain-pleasure” zombies illustrates that the mystery is deeper than we thought.

By Philip Goff

In the 1990s the Australian philosopher David Chalmers famously framed the challenge of distinguishing between the “easy” problems and the “hard” problem of consciousness. Easy problems focus on explaining behavior, such as the ability to discriminate, categorize and react to surprises. Still incredibly challenging, they’re “easy” in the sense that they fit into standard scientific explanation: we postulate a mechanism to explain how the system—the brain—does what it does.

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Meet the humanoids: 8 robots ready to revolutionize work https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/meet-the-humanoids-8-robots-ready-to-revolutionize-work https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/meet-the-humanoids-8-robots-ready-to-revolutionize-work#respond Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:25:51 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/meet-the-humanoids-8-robots-ready-to-revolutionize-work

Everything you need to know about the that will soon enter the workforce — or are in it already.

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Faster Than Light: New Dark Matter Findings Challenge Classical Physics https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/faster-than-light-new-dark-matter-findings-challenge-classical-physics https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/faster-than-light-new-dark-matter-findings-challenge-classical-physics#respond Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:24:54 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/faster-than-light-new-dark-matter-findings-challenge-classical-physics

Dive into the world of tachyons, the elusive particles that might travel faster than light and hold the key to understanding dark matter and the universe’s expansion. Join us as we explore groundbreaking research that challenges our deepest physics laws and hints at a universe far stranger than we ever imagined. Don’t miss out on this thrilling cosmic journey!

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00:39 Racing Beyond Light.
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05:57 Beyond Cosmology: Tachyons’ Broader Impact.
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