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AI Film “Do You Trust This Computer” Director Chris Paine on Artificial Intelligence

Posted by John Gallagher in education, Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI

May 29
2019

My guest today is Chris Paine, director of the AI documentary film “Do You Trust This Computer?” and previously the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?”. The new film is a powerful examination of artificial intelligence centered around insights from the most high-profile thinkers on the subject, including Elon Musk, Stuart Russell, Max Tegmark, Ray Kurzweil, Andrew Ng, Westworld creator Jonathan Nolan and many more. Chris set out to ask these leaders in the field “what scares smart people about AI”, and they did not hold back.

5G is an untested application of a technology that we know is harmful — In academics this is called human subjects research

Posted by John Gallagher in internet | 1 Comment on 5G is an untested application of a technology that we know is harmful — In academics this is called human subjects research

May 29
2019

5G is an untested application of a technology that we know is harmful; we know it from the science. In academics this is called human subjects research.

We are vibrational creatures. Every cell in our body is electric and has its own frequency and vibration. EMF’s affect all of that.

Dr. Mercola Warns On The Impending 5G Apocalypse

Posted by John Gallagher in education, existential risks, internet | 1 Comment on Dr. Mercola Warns On The Impending 5G Apocalypse

May 29
2019

The fact that the Technocrat elite flatly ignore stern and documented warnings against 5G, indicates that they have some ulterior agenda that they must accomplish regardless of the negative impact on humans. It is the establishment of Technocracy, aka, Scientific Dictatorship. ⁃ TN Editor.

Are you still under the misconception that unchecked exposure to electromagnetic field (EMF) and radiofrequency (RF) radiation is of no concern? Then I urge you to view the featured documentary, “5G Apocalypse — The Extinction Event” by Sacha Stone.

Please understand that while I am not in agreement with some of Stone’s conspiracy theories on the militarization of these frequencies, the science is beyond solid to justify concern about 5G without throwing in conspiracy allegations. I do believe that, overall, the documentary was well done and nicely packages the nonconspiracy information.

Elon Musk warns A.I. could create an ‘immortal dictator from which we can never escape’

Posted by John Gallagher in education, Elon Musk, life extension, robotics/AI

May 29
2019

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that artificial intelligence “doesn’t have to be evil to destroy humanity.” In a new documentary, “Do You Trust This Computer?”.

Self-powered micro-submarines sink and swim to deliver drugs in the body

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in biotech/medical | 1 Comment on Self-powered micro-submarines sink and swim to deliver drugs in the body

May 29
2019

It’s entirely possible that micro-machines could one day be delivering drugs inside the body, with many designs proposed in recent years. The latest comes from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), which gets around under its own power using a system similar to how submarines rise and sink.

Using Exosomes to Regenerate the Thymus

Posted by Steve Hill in biotech/medical | 1 Comment on Using Exosomes to Regenerate the Thymus

May 29
2019

In a new study, researchers at the University of Pécs, Hungary used cell secretions known as exosomes to regenerate the thymus, one of the most important organs in the body.

The thymus shrinks as we age

The thymus is arguably one of the most critical organs in the body, and it is where new T cells develop before being trained in the lymph nodes in order to become the soldiers of the adaptive immune system. However, as we get older, the thymus starts to shrink, its ability to create new T cells declines, and the immune cell-producing tissue increasingly turns into fat and wastes away; this process is known as thymic involution.

City of the Future: Seven new facilities that will redefine the communities we live in

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in futurism | 1 Comment on City of the Future: Seven new facilities that will redefine the communities we live in

May 29
2019

By Futurist Thomas Frey

Great communities are founded on great ideas. At the same time, our most admired communities become a magnet, attracting the brightest minds. The relational effect is clear: Bright minds make a community great, and great communities attract bright minds.

In the future, communities will be designed around ways to stimulate new ideas using such things as creative environments, imagination sparkers, and inspirational architecture.

I See You: the posthuman subject and spaces of virtuality – Rebecca Bishop

Posted by Steve Nichols in biotech/medical, evolution, neuroscience | 1 Comment on I See You: the posthuman subject and spaces of virtuality – Rebecca Bishop

May 29
2019

https://paper.li/e-1437691924

Everything is backwards now, like out there is the real world and this is the dream. (James Cameron’s Avatar, 2009)

Over recent years, considerable scholarly attention and mass media speculation has been paid to the emergence of the figure of the posthuman – a vision of augmented human that has undergone radical transformation as a result of new biotechnological and informatic technologies. This posthumanity lives simultaneously in the world of the virtual and the biological, cast concurrently as the future of a biomedically enhanced humanity and a figuration for overcoming the identity politics of the past. Some are arguing that we will eventually leave the human ‘as we know it’ behind, in a techno-modified, cognitively enhanced evolution, while in critical theory, the posthuman is being lauded as an ontology through which the boundary structures of the EuroWestern legacy of humanism can be dismantled.