AGI 2024 Update
AGI 2024 will be held in Cyberspace and in Seattle, Washington, USA on
August 13–16.
Our Joscha Bach, Ben Goertzel, Patrick Hammer, David Hanson, Christof
Koch, Ray Kurzweil, Alexander G. Ororbia II, Gary F. Marcus, and Alexey
S. Potapov will be speaking.
Learn more at https://agi-conf.org/2024
11th Aging Research & Drug Discovery Meeting (ARDD 2024) Update
The 11th Aging Research & Drug Discovery Meeting (ARDD 2024) will be
held August 26–30 in Cyberspace and at the University of Copenhagen,
Denmark.
Our Rozalyn Anderson, Daniela Bakula, Nir Barzilai, Evelyne Yehudit
Bischof, Gil Blander, Filipe Cabreiro, Aubrey de Grey, João Pedro de
Magalhães, Marco Demaria, Collin Ewald, Luigi Ferrucci, Kristen Fortney,
Vadim N. Gladyshev, Vera Gorbunova, Steve Horvath, Joshua Johnson, Jamie
Justice, Brian K. Kennedy, Andrea B. Maier, Alexey Moskalev, Anders
Sandberg, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, Björn Schumacher, Vittorio
Sebastiano, Petr Sramek, Yousin Suh, Joseph Takahashi, Mourad
(Toporsian) Topors, Jan Vijg, Benjamin Yaden, and Alex Zhavoronkov will
be speaking.
Learn more at https://agingpharma.org
Papers
Read “A Home Test to Predict Alzheimer’s Disease Risk: Lights and
Shadows” by our Domenico Praticó at
https://medium.com/@domenicopratico/a-home-test-to-predict-alzheimers-disease-risk-lights-and-shadows-domenico-pratico-md-fcpp-ad3f9583de3f
Read “Briefing for the National Research Council Study on Risk Analysis
Methods for Nuclear War and Nuclear Terrorism” (PDF) by our Martin E. Hellman at http://www-ee.stanford.edu/%7Ehellman/p...s/82.pdf
Read “Space Healthtech: Innovation Base for Longevity” by our Thi Hien
Nguyen at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.10...191-0_10
Videos
Watch “Models of human preference for learning in sequential tasks” by
our W. Bradley Knox at
https://utexas.app.box.com/s/j7fmavjiq8...ohsoo1si
Watch “Saving Civilization” by our Jay Friedenberg at
https://www.youtube.com/@savingcivilization
Books
Read “5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy: System-wide Transformation Methods
to Close the Compliance Gap and Advance the 2030 Sustainable Development
Goals” by our Marvin Cheung at https://amzn.to/4c4xOnM
Read “Defusing the Cancer Bomb: How Cancer Saved My Life” by our Anna
Gutkina at https://amzn.to/4crc5Hw
Read “Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable
World” by our Roger Spitz at https://amzn.to/4bZFAPD
Read “Future Studies and Counterfactual Analysis”, coauthored by our
Theodore J. Gordon and Mariana Todorova at
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/...-18437-7
Read “Mobius: Out of Time” by our Richard Thieme at
https://amzn.to/3Legkub
Read “Radiation — Exposure and its treatment: A modern handbook, Third
Edition” by our Brian P. Hanley at https://amzn.to/3VYJna4
This book covers what radiation is, where it comes from, biological
effects, history of radiation fears, and nuclear accidents. It was
heavily edited to be accessible to intelligent lay readers, and contains
over 400 scientific papers and other citations. The book has been
praised by physicians and laypeople alike.
Did you know, for instance, that in every 1.12 cubic miles of seawater,
there is enough U-235 to make a Hiroshima size atom bomb? And yet, we
hyperconcentrate seawater by evaporation, collect the salt, and prefer
it over mined salt on our food. This is a good touchstone for lay people
to understand radiation at a practical level. These amounts have been
confirmed practically by mining yellowcake uranium from the ocean at
roughly double the cost to mine it on land.
Read “The Varieties of Spiritual Experience: 21st Century Research and
Perspectives” by our David B. Yaden at https://amzn.to/4cUKZrZ
Read “The War That Must Not Occur” by our Jean-Pierre Dupuy at
https://amzn.to/4bvpUDr
The possibility of a nuclear war that could destroy civilization has
influenced the course of international affairs since 1945, suspended
like a sword of Damocles above the heads of the world’s leaders. The
fact that we have escaped a third world war involving strategic nuclear
weapons seems nothing short of a miracle.
Blog
Recent interesting blog posts include:
“100% of Cancer Patients Cured Long-Term in ‘Remarkable’ Human Trial” by
Dan Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/100-o...an-trial
“A new brain-inspired artificial dendritic neural circuit” by Saúl
Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/a-new...-circuit
“Aging Might Not Be Inevitable” by Arthur Brown at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/aging...evitable
“AI Hype Or Reality: The Singularity — Will AI Surpass Human
Intelligence?” by Gemechu Taye at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/ai-hy...lligence
“AI-generated jokes funnier than those created by humans, University of
Southern California study finds” by Rx Sobolewski at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/ai-ge...dy-finds
“Artificial intelligence isn’t a good argument for basic income” by Zola
Balazs Bekasi at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/artif...c-income
“Based on physics, life could exist in a two-dimensional universe” by
Dan Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/based...universe
“Beyond CRISPR: seekRNA delivers a New Pathway for Accurate Gene
Editing” by Natalie Chan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/beyon...-editing
“Bio-inspired hydrogel boosts nerve regrowth, heals spinal cord injury”
by Raphael Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/bio-i...d-injury
“Brain size riddle solved as humans exceed evolution trend” by The
Neuro-Network at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/brain...on-trend
“Bridge RNA: A new gene editing technique that could overcome the
limitations of CRISPR” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/bridg...f-crispr
“China’s ‘artificial sun’ achieves breakthrough in nuclear fusion” by
Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/china...r-fusion
“China’s telco companies are gradually shifting to telecom giants switch
hundreds of thousands of their servers to homegrown CPU platforms” by
Chima Wisdom at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/china...latforms
“Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Explained | Cosmology 101 Episode 2”
by Cecile G. Tamura at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/cosmi...pisode-2
“The Culture of Iain M Banks” by Sean Brazell at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/the-c...-m-banks
“Diving Into 3 Key DARPA AI Programs” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/divin...programs
“Engineers create world’s thinnest wire stable at 0 Kelvin” by Gemechu
Taye at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/engin...0-kelvin
“Exoplanet’s Rotten Egg Smell Revealed by Webb Telescope” by Laurence
Tognetti at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/exopl...elescope
“Google claims new AI training tech is 13 times faster and 10 times more
power efficient — DeepMind’s new JEST optimizes training data for
impressive gains” by Chima Wisdom at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/googl...ve-gains
“Hard Yet Stretchable: Scientists Create ‘Unbreakable’ New Material” by
Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/hard-...material
“Huge Problem with Modern GPUs. New Breakthrough Technology Explained”
by Claudio Soprano at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/huge-...xplained
“Human Consciousness Is a Side Effect of Psychedelics, Scientists Say”
by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/human...ists-say
“Keith Wiley — Mind Uploading & Whole Brain Emulation” by The
Neuro-Network at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/keith...mulation
“LHS 1140 b: From Mini-Neptune to Potential Water World” by Laurence
Tognetti at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/lhs-1...er-world
“Like a Child, This Brain-Inspired AI Can Explain Its Reasoning” by
Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/like-...easoning
“Lou Hawthorne presenting at the Rejuvenation Startup Summit 2024” by
Frank Schueler at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/lou-h...mit-2024
“NASA Thinks This Radical Mars Rocket Could Revolutionize Space Travel”
by Kelvin Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/nasa-...e-travel
“New Paper Claims Dark Matter May Be Made Up Of Tachyons Traveling
Faster Than Light” by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/new-p...an-light
“Organic electrochemical neurons for neuromorphic perception” by Dan
Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/organ...rception
“PepsiCo is using robotics and AI-powered crop planning to transform its
supply chain” by Dan Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/pepsi...ly-chain
“Physicists Uncover New Path to Quantum Computing: Infrared
Illumination” by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/physi...mination
“Quantitative Justice: Using Data Science for Good” by Saúl Morales
Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/quant...for-good
“Quantum Physics Has Reopened Zeno’s Paradoxes” by Arthur Brown at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/quant...aradoxes
“Quantum sensors: How does the flow profile affect flow measurements?”
by Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/quant...urements
“Scientists confirm first lunar cave that could help shelter astronauts
from the moon’s extreme temperatures” by Claudio Soprano at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/scien...eratures
“Tech company unveils tiny spheres that outperform solar panels using
both sun and artificial light — and the company says they could hit 60
times the current capacity” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/tech-...capacity
“TIMELAPSE of Future Space Stations (Sci-fi Documentary)” by Jose Ruben
Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/timel...umentary
“Treating the Gut-Brain Connection with B Vitamins to Treat Parkinson’s
Disease” by Natalie Chan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/treat...-disease
“Was Penrose Right? NEW EVIDENCE For Quantum Effects In The Brain” by
Dan Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/was-p...he-brain
“What ‘naked’ singularities are revealing about quantum space-time” by
Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/what-...ace-time
“Woah! Scientists Created Tiny Machines Driven By Microbes” by Jose
Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/woah-...microbes
“World’s heaviest soaring bird inspires wind power design” by Shailesh
Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/world...r-design
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