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Nov 2, 2018
How Can Black Holes Change the Future?
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: cosmology, futurism
Nov 2, 2018
The last 15 hours of the NAD+ Mouse fundraiser and we are only $2431 away from the final goal
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
If we can reach our third and final stretch goal and expand the scope of the experiment massively. Could NMN be a true anti-aging drug?
Nov 2, 2018
Choosing Health Early On
Posted by Nicola Bagalà in categories: futurism, life extension
A thought experiment to see whether life extension might contribute to your happiness.
Today, we’re going to engage in a thought experiment. We’re going to imagine a world with some sort of antechamber to life in which you hang around as some sort of disembodied entity before you are born. (Some people actually believe in something like that, but we won’t go there; it’s just a thought experiment.)
The Choice to Be Born
Nov 2, 2018
Civilian tourniquet use associated with six-fold reduction in mortality
Posted by Nicholi Avery in category: biotech/medical
Nov 2, 2018
The European Service Module – the powerhouse that will supply our NASA’s Orion Spacecraft spacecraft with electricity, propulsion, thermal control, air and water – will soon make its journey from Bremen, Germany to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space travel
Tune in to NASA TV to learn more about this major milestone that will help propel us to deep space missions: https://go.nasa.gov/2qqRCNI
Nov 2, 2018
We are happy to announce Professor Barker as a speaker for the 2019 Undoing Aging Conference
Posted by Michael Greve in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
http://www.undoing-aging.org/news/professor-richard-barker-t…nbrFm8JTxA
Richard is an internationally respected leader in healthcare and life sciences. He says: “I’m focused on accelerating precision medicine technologies to advance our healthy lifespan”.
Nov 2, 2018
Your native language affects what you can and can’t see
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in category: futurism
Now in a new paper, published in Psychological Science, Martin Maier and Rasha Abdel Rahman at the Humboldt University of Berlin report that by affecting visual processing at an early stage, such linguistic differences can even determine whether someone will see a coloured shape – or they won’t. “Our native language is thus one of the forces that determine what we consciously perceive,” they write.
The wavelengths of light that we perceive as colours form a smooth continuum, but crucially, the colour categories that people use to divide up this spectrum vary between languages. Maier and Abdel-Rahman studied native Greek-, Russian- and German-speakers for whom these categories differ.
In both Greek and Russian, there is a dedicated category-word for “light blue” and another for “dark blue” but no specific word for “blue” as a broader category. In German (as in English), people can use qualifiers to refer to “light blue”, “navy blue” or “sky blue”, and so on, but there are no dedicated category words for these shades. On the other hand, in German (also as in English) there is a dedicated word “blue” (blau in German) to cover all the shades of blue. However, Russian, Greek and German alike have a dedicated category word for referring to all shades of “green”, just as we do in English.
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Nov 2, 2018
AI Guru Andrew Ng on the Job Market of Tomorrow
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: economics, education, robotics/AI, transportation
…but Our Timelines Are Too Rosy I would actually welcome a correction in public opinion about what AI can and cannot do. This has happened to me multiple times, where I would listen to a CEO on stage make an announcement about what their company is doing with AI, and then 20 minutes later I’d talk to one of their engineers, and they’d say, “No, we’re not doing that, and we have no idea how to do it.” I think it still takes judgment to know what is and what isn’t possible with AI, and when the C-suite does not yet have that judgment it’s possible for companies to make promises very publicly that are just not feasible. Frankly, we see some of this in the self-driving space. Multiple auto [original equipment manufacturer] CEOs have promised self-driving car roadmaps that their own engineers think are unrealistic. I feel [CEOs are] being sincere but just not really understanding what can be done in a certain timeframe.
The co-founder of Google’s deep-learning research team on the promise of a conditional basic income, the need for a skills-based education system and what CEOs don’t understand about artificial intelligence.
