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Jul 3, 2022
A hacked Tesla Model S Plaid achieves a record-breaking speed of 216 mph
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: cybercrime/malcode, sustainability, transportation
Jul 3, 2022
Extreme solar activities are causing satellites to fall off their orbits
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: satellites
Jul 3, 2022
FCC authorizes SpaceX to bring Starlink internet to airplanes, ships, and more
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: internet, space
Jul 3, 2022
Is time travel real? What Pixar’s movie Lightyear shows about Einstein’s theory
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: entertainment, space travel, time travel
Spoiler alert: this article explains a key plot point, but we don’t give away anything you won’t see in trailers. Thanks to reader Florence, 7, for her questions.
At the beginning of the new Disney Pixar film, Lightyear, Buzz Lightyear gets stranded on a dangerous faraway planet with his commanding officer and crew.
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Jul 3, 2022
Elusive review: The story of the Higgs boson defies normal narratives
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: particle physics
Finding the Higgs boson is the compelling story behind Elusive: How Peter Higgs solved the mystery of mass. But Frank Close’s book lives up to its title as both the man and his particle ultimately slip through the net.
Jul 3, 2022
Harvard Developed AI Identifies the Shortest Path to Human Happiness
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: life extension, robotics/AI
Deep Longevity has published a paper in Aging-US outlining a machine learning approach to human psychology in collaboration with Nancy Etcoff, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, an authority on happiness and beauty.
The authors created two digital models of human psychology based on data from the Midlife in the United States study.
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Jul 3, 2022
Brainwashing & Mind Control
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: cybercrime/malcode, genetics, neuroscience
The CCP
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We often worry about the possibility of a civilization developing methods of brainwashing to indoctrinate its population and turning into a totalitarian dictatorship. We will examine both existing and possible future methods and technologies for mind control, such as neuro-hacking and genetic programming, as well as the possible defenses against such brainwashing or conditioning and implications it has for civilization.
Jul 3, 2022
Consciousness and Identity
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: existential risks, life extension, neuroscience, transhumanism
A look at how emerging concepts in science & technology could disrupt our most our understandings of identity, consciousness, and free will. This is the 5th episode of the Existential Crisis series which looks at concepts like Transhumanism, Life Extension, the Simulation Hypothesis, the Doomsday Argument, and the Anthropic Principle.
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Jul 3, 2022
Boltzmann Brains & the Anthropic Principle
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: neuroscience, particle physics
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We continue our discussion of the Boltzmann Brain — a hypothetical randomly assembled mind rather than an evolved one — by looking at the Anthropic Principle and the Fine-Tuned Universe Theory, alternative ways of viewing the probability of our existence than the classic Copernican Principle.
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