Not my finest keynote but I thought I’d share it and get your critical feedback.
A haunting modern parable about truth, distortion, and destruction—how one kernel of truth can grow into a fire that burns the world.
Welcome to — the world’s first singularity podcast dedicated to exploring AI and the technological singularity.
Check out this modest proposal for a transhumanist manifesto from www.SingularityWeblog.com and let me know if you like it or not.
What would Hamlet have said at the edge of the technological event horizon? Check out this neo-Shakespearean take on the transhumanist dilemma.
Who was Edsger Dijkstra? Discover how his warnings on complexity, algorithms & control connect directly to today’s debates on AI and the Singularity.
A new study shows how rising DNA methylation entropy with age may reveal deeper truths about your biological clock than ever before.
Cleveland Clinic researchers are working to improve the way we use evolutionary modeling to understand drug resistance. The study, published in Science Advances, uses a new type of evolutionary model called a “fitness seascape” to incorporate a patient’s dosage schedule into models that predict whether an infection will develop antibiotic resistance, and has found that inconsistent timing and missing early doses can lead to treatment failure.
A team led by Jacob Scott, MD, DPhil., including study first author Eshan King, an MD/Ph. D. student at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, is refining models that determine recommended antibiotic doses by incorporating bacterial evolutionary dynamics.
“With the rise of ‘superbugs,’ or antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, the world is reaching a crisis point,” says Dr. Scott, the study’s senior author. “We’ve already seen from MRSA what can happen if a bacterium becomes antibiotic-resistant. We need to address the problem before it impacts our ability to use antibiotics in more routine aspects of medical care, like surgery or childbirth.”
This case-control study investigates if a regional homogeneity–magnetic resonance imaging cortical deficit pattern provides a more robust biomarker for major depressive disorder (MDD) than its structural counterpart and informs the underlying, regionally specific lower cerebral blood flow in this…
A team led by astronomers at Leiden University in the Netherlands and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Virginia (U.S.) have, for the first time, robustly detected semi-heavy water ice around a young sunlike star. The results strengthen the case that some of the water in our solar system formed before our sun and the planets.
Their findings are published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
One way that astronomers trace the origin of water is through measuring its deuteration ratio. That is the fraction of water that contains one deuterium atom instead of one of the hydrogens. So instead of H2O, it’s HDO, which is also called semi-heavy water. A high fraction of semi-heavy water is a sign that the water formed in a very cold place, such as the primitive dark clouds of dust, ice, and gas from which stars are born.