Nov 10, 2019
Major ASP.NET hosting provider infected by ransomware
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: cybercrime/malcode
SmarterASP.NET, a company with more than 440,000 customers, said it’s been hit by ransomware over the weekend.
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Nov 10, 2019
Drones will swarm our skies when these 3 things happen
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, drones
Drone makers have to convince us that airborne burritos and transplant organs are worth the noise and privacy invasion.
Nov 10, 2019
Yes, hyena robots are scary. But they’re also a cunning marketing ploy
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
There’s something unsettling about a private firm making powerful autonomous machines – but what’s scarier is who’s building them, and why.
Nov 10, 2019
The transhuman future is here
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: augmented reality, biotech/medical, genetics, life extension, robotics/AI, transhumanism, virtual reality
The philosophy that we should merge with machines to expand our intelligence and extend life is gaining traction. Design, scientific and technological frontiers are being pushed to redefine nature through AI, AR, biotech, genetics, and VR.
Nov 10, 2019
Blood ‘cleaning’ treatment which pulls disease from body using magnets ready for human trials
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology
Deadly conditions like leukaemia, sepsis and malaria could be drawn from the body using magnets, after a British engineer designed a blood filtering system which sieves away disease.
Dr George Frodsham, came up with the idea while studying how magnetic nanoparticles can be made to bind to cells in the body, to allow, for example those cells to show up on scanners.
But he realised that if it was possible to magnetise cells for imaging, it should also be possible to then suck them out of the blood.
Nov 10, 2019
How a Trial Vaccine Helped Wipe Out a Woman’s Breast Cancer in 7 Months
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Nov 10, 2019
A natural biomolecule has been measured acting like a quantum wave for the first time
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biological, quantum physics
Physicists have watched a chain of 15 amino acids interfere with itself, in an experiment that paves the way for a new era of quantum biology.
Nov 10, 2019
Will gene editing solve all our problems?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics
Nov 10, 2019
At age 17, he built Nigeria’s first locally-made drone and on a mission to build an aircraft
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: drones, security, surveillance
David Opateyibo was 17 years old when he built Nigeria’s first locally-made drone in Lagos.
Opateyibo led a team of Lagos State Polytechnic students to produce the country’s first prototype of a drone, which authorities in Lagos hope to deploy for security surveillance.
Nov 10, 2019
David Pearce — Foundational Values for the Future — What is God’s Utility Function?
Posted by Mark Larkento in categories: biotech/medical, bitcoin, ethics, neuroscience
“What foundational values need to be in place for an ethical utilitronium shockwave?”
What foundational values need to be in place for an ethical utilitronium shockwave?
We discuss:
- (following on from a previous video) more on Nozick’s experience machines (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxBvNbuYud0).
- given that in each age there has been different conceptions of utopia, what would utopia be for a post-human superintelligence?
- classical utilitarian vs negative utilitarian approaches to the long term good of life in the universe.
- whether a perfect decision theory would be equal to negative utilitarianism.
- how much attention should we give to preferences in improving well-being beyond eliminating suffering?
- if one does believe in the objectivity of value should we be concerned about being damned in a local maximum of well-being?
- what is God’s utility function?
