Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award
Geoffrey Hinton and Ilya Sutskever, teacher and student, named Joint
2023 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award Winners.
The Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award is annually bestowed upon a
respected scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught
with dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them.
As we near the Singularity, more and more people are preparing for the
upcoming existential risks, and therefore this year we again have two
joint recipients of the Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award, for the
third time in our history. This year’s recipients are Geoffrey Hinton
and his student Ilya Sutskever, who are both so worried about AI safety
that they both have taken personal financial hits to increase humanity’s
chances of surviving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Learn more at
https://lifeboat.com/ex/press.releases.....winners
World Futures Day
March 1st will be the 11th anniversary of World Futures Day: a 24-hour
open conversation around the world about the future sponsored by The
Millennium Project in cooperation with Lifeboat Foundation and others.
Already, our Adriano V. Autino, Mara Di Berardo, Shermon Cruz, Scot
Bryson, Shermon Cruz, Tom E. Diffenbach, Dan C. Elton, Paul Epping,
Elizabeth Florescu, Nadezhda Gaponenko, Jerome C. Glenn, Syamsuriatina
“Tina” Ishak, Andjelka B. Kovacevic, Pavel O. Luksha, Nino (Typhoon)
Marcantonio, Yee Peng Kong, Paul Saffo, Adam Sarwar, Chris Smedley,
Rohit Talwar, Mariana Todorova, Victoria Ustimenko, and Bronwyn Herold
Williams are speaking/participating in this event.
World Futures Day begins at 12 noon in New Zealand and moves each hour
around the planet for 24 hours. If you would like to be a Facilitator at
12 noon in your time zone or in others, learn more!
This is a Zoom-based event. See you on March 1!
Learn more at
https://www.millennium-project.org/worl...litators
BEP2024
NoRCEL’s next BLUE EARTH PROJECT EVENT: BEP2024 will be held January
27th for free at Leeds City College, UK and in cyberspace. This panel
discussion and forum questions the wisdom of Homo sapiens given the
state of our planet today.
Our Robert Zubrin will be speaking.
Learn more at https://norcel.net/bep/bep2024
Startup Societies & Crypto Cities Summit
The Startup Societies & Crypto Cities Summit will be held February 2–3
in Pristine Bay, Honduras.
Our Joseph McKinney is cohost of this event and our Vitalik Buterin and
Robin Hanson will be speaking.
Learn more at https://lu.ma/startupsocietysummit
Audio
Listen to “Cities in Space Podcast Episode 1: Rocket Science with Dr. Leon Vanstone: How do we get there?” with our Holly Melear at https://steam-space.org/cities-in-space...-podcast
Papers
Read “Artificial Intelligence and Public Service: Key New Challenges” by
our David Bray at
https://napawash.org/standing-panel-blo...d-beyond
Read “Concepts is All You Need: A More Direct Path to AGI”, coauthored
by our Peter Voss at https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.01622
Read “Exploring non-anthropocentric aspects of AI existential safety”,
authored by our Michael Bukatin at
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WJuASYD...stential
Read “Neglect of Higher Dimensional Solutions to Territorial Conflicts:
Conventional dependence on “flat earth” thinking ignoring insights of
mathematics and physics” by our Anthony Judge at
https://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs20...5dai.php
Read “The Professions of the Future” by our Henrique Jorge at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/the-p...e-future
Read “Reward (Mis)design for Autonomous Driving”, coauthored by our W. Bradley Knox and Peter Stone at
https://www.bradknox.net/reward-misdesign/
Read “Social Bots: Detection and Challenges” coauthored by our Fil
Menczer at https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.17423
Blog
Nova Spivack joins our blog team with the post “Inside secret Bond-style
Alpine vault ‘backing up Earth’ in case of WW3” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/insid...e-of-ww3
Recent interesting blog posts include:
“10x Stronger Than Kevlar: Amorphous Silicon Carbide Could Revolutionize
Material Science” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/10x-s...-science
“AI chemist performs complex experiments based on plain text prompts” by
Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/ai-ch...-prompts
“Algae as a Surprising Meat Alternative and Source of Environmentally
Friendly Protein” by Natalie Chan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/algae...-protein
“Astronomical Mystery: Strange Radio Signal Detected From Outside the
Milky Way” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/astro...ilky-way
“Automated Atomic Force Microscope To Make 3D Nanoscale Data More
Accessible” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/autom...cessible
“BMW says Goodbye to Electric Cars; it has now Solved the Problem of
Hydrogen Engines” by Nicholi Avery at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/bmw-s...-engines
“BREAKING: New Research Reveals 68 Percent of the Universe May Not
Actually Exist” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/break...ly-exist
“Chaos theory and the end of physics” by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/chaos...-physics
“Combating Alzheimer’s With Focused Ultrasound Drug Delivery” by Arthur
Brown at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/comba...delivery
“The Expanding Universe of Generative Models” by Zola Balazs Bekasi at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/the-e...e-models
“Facebook Researchers Test AI’s Intelligence and Find It Is
Unfortunately Quite Stupid” by Zola Balazs Bekasi at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/faceb...e-stupid
“Google’s Gemini AI Hints at the Next Great Leap for the Technology” by
Dan Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/googl...chnology
“How Obesity Dismantles Our Mitochondria” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/how-o...chondria
“Inhalable nanosensors could enable early lung cancer detection” by Dan
Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/inhal...etection
“Inside the Quest to Reprogram Immune Cells Into An Anti-Aging Remedy”
by Jeremy Dylan Batterson at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/insid...g-remedy
“Inventions that are fighting the rise of facial recognition technology”
by Kelvin Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/inven...chnology
“Laser additive manufacturing: Listening for defects as they happen” by
Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/laser...y-happen
“Made-to-Order Diagnostic Tests may be on the Horizon” by Natalie Chan
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/made-...-horizon
“MIT developed ML-tool for material prediction beats human wisdom” by
Gemechu Taye at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/mit-d...n-wisdom
“More Affordable Lucid Air Touring and Pure EV Models Still Deliver Over
400 Miles of Range” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/more-...of-range
“NASA plans to unveil experimental X-59 supersonic jet on January 12” by
Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/nasa-...nuary-12
“New Factory About to Open Will Pump Out Humanoid Robots” by Kelvin
Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/new-f...d-robots
“Next-Gen Mitochondrial Uncouplers: Potential Game Changer for Metabolic
Disorders” by Chris Smedley at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/next-...isorders
“Nvidia CEO Jensen is worth $42 billion but still eats street food at
street markets and visits LAN parties during overseas trips, sheds
signature leather jacket” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/nvidi...r-jacket
“Nvidia reportedly selects Intel Foundry Services for GPU packaging
production — could produce over 300,000 H100 GPUs per month” by Eric
Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/nvidi...er-month
“Photonic chip that ‘fits together like Lego’ opens door to
semiconductor industry” by Cecile G. Tamura at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/photo...industry
“Re-frame of mind: Do our brains have a built-in sense of grammar?” by
Cecile G. Tamura at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/re-fr...rammar-2
“Researchers develop self-assembling, self-illuminating therapeutic
proteins” by Chris Mcaulay at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/resea...proteins
“Revolutionary 3D-Printed Brain Tissue Mimics Human Function” by Paul
Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/revol...function
“Scientists Discovered Strange ‘Entities’ Called ‘Obelisks’ In Our
Bodies. Their Purpose Is a Mystery” by Josh Seeherman at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/scien...-mystery
“Scientists find way to help immune system ‘cool off’ cancer cells” by
Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/scien...er-cells
“Scientists just witnessed a supernova turn into a black hole for the
first time” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/scien...rst-time
“Scientists Just X-Rayed a Single Atom” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/scien...gle-atom
“Scientists think this weird-looking, odd-smelling fruit holds the key
to fighting world hunger as temperatures rise” by Joseph Barney at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/scien...res-rise
“Scientists use AI to predict when cancer cells will resist
chemotherapy” by Gemechu Taye at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/scien...otherapy
“Shaping the future of advanced robotics” by Dan Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/shapi...robotics
“Shazam now lets you identify music in apps while wearing headphones” by
Gemechu Taye at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/shaza...adphones
“SpaceX Starship Can Reach Mars in Just 45 Days” by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/space...-45-days
“Suite of Genes Influence Head Shape in Humans” by Arthur Brown at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/suite...n-humans
“Suspended Skyscraper Proposed For NYC Would Hang Inverted From An
Asteroid” by Brent Ellman at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/suspe...asteroid
“Whale Language Breakthrough Allows Scientists Astounding Insight Into
Animal Communication” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/whale...nication
“When will Artemis 2 launch and what will the mission do?” by Dan
Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/when-...ssion-do
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