Lifeboat News #272

1st International Online Conference of the Journal Philosophies

The 1st International Online Conference of the Journal Philosophies will be held June 10–14 in cyberspace. Registration is free. The conference subject is “Intelligent Inquiry into Intelligence” and is available at https://sciforum.net/event/IOCPh2025
 
Our Andrew I. Adamatzky, Gordana Dodig, Marcin Milkowski, Marcin J. Schroeder, Jordi Vallverdú, Stephen Wolfram, and Hector Zenil will be speaking/participating.

ISDC 2025

ISDC 2025, the year’s most important space conference, will be held June 19–22 in Orlando, Florida at https://isdc.nss.org
 
Our Gary Barnhard, Sherry E. Bell, Joe Haldeman, Martine Rothblatt, and Peter A. Swan will be speaking.

Books

Read “Acting with the World: Agency in the Anthropocene” by our Andrew Pickering at https://amzn.to/42kQE7o
 
Read “Artificial Intelligence and Universal Values” by our Jay Friedenberg at https://ethicspress.com/products/artifi...l-values
 
Read “Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2023”, coedited by our Alexei V. Samsonovich at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/...-50381-8
 
Read “Inside Cyber: How AI, 5G, IoT, and Quantum Computing Will Transform Privacy and Our Security” by our Chuck Brooks at https://amzn.to/3FKPqux
 
Read “Mapping the Future: the Sapientia Scale” by our Giorgio Gaviraghi at https://amzn.to/4jbdrcf
 
This book discusses how our society needs to define strategies and policies to avoid a potential extinction and create a symbiotic relationship with AI as the only valid alternative for survival. Read “Our Next Reality: How the AI-powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World” by our Alvin W. Graylin and Louis Rosenberg at https://amzn.to/3FPVMbP
 
Ray Kurzweil says “In Our Next Reality, Alvin and Louis have done a fantastic job of giving a balanced and insightful analysis to some of the most pressing questions our society will face in the near future. The material is data driven, digestible, and very actionable.”
 
Read “State of the Future 20.0”, coauthored by our Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore Gordon, and Elizabeth Florescu at https://www.millennium-project.org/publ...ion-20-0
 
The State of the Future 20.0 provides a broad, detailed, and readable look at the issues and opportunities on the future of humanity, and what we should know today to avoid the worst and achieve the best for humanity.
 
Read “What’s Space Got to Do with it? 10 Life Lessons for Personal Growth” by our Shelli Brunswick at https://amzn.to/3E4mDjZ

Blog

Yuta Aoki joins our blog team with the post “OpenAI announces new ‘deep research’ tool for ChatGPT” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/opena...-chatgpt
 
Chris Linnell joins our blog team with the post “Free Radicals Extend Lifespan?” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/free-...lifespan
 
Recent interesting blog posts include:
 
“A Scientist Grew a Groundbreaking New ‘Mutant’ Form of Magic Mushroom” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/02/a-sci...mushroom
 
“Artificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots” by Yuta Aoki at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/artif...y-robots
 
“Artificial Photosynthesis: Scientists Crack Nature’s Code for Clean Energy” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/artif...n-energy
 
“Biological Age, Age At Menopause, And Longevity (4 Studies)” by Mike Lustgarten at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/biolo...-studies
 
“Biotechnology: A collection of SFIA’s looks into the future of biology, medicine, and potential alien life” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/biote...ien-life
 
“ChromoGen: the AI tool predicting 3D genomic structures in minutes” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/02/chrom...-minutes
 
“Everything Just CHANGED in the global automobile industry” by Chris Smedley at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/every...industry
 
“Fears around uncontrollable AI are growing — two top AI scientists explain why” by Yuta Aoki at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/fears...lain-why
 
“Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost’s Sent Close Up View Of The Moon!” by Mike Diverde at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/firef...the-moon
 
“Former OpenAI Co-Founder Sutskever’s SSI In Talks To Be Valued At $20 Billion” by Bruce Burke at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/02/forme...-billion
 
“Hydrogen from plastic waste: UK firm eyes 35 tons daily for clean energy” by Raphael Ramos at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/hydro...n-energy
 
“Individual and additive effects of vitamin D, omega-3 and exercise on DNA methylation clocks of biological aging in older adults from the DO-HEALTH trial” by Chris Linnell at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/indiv...th-trial
 
“Introducing Evo 2, a predictive and generative genomic AI for all domains of life” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/intro...-of-life
 
“Intrusive Infodynamic Entities: A Firsthand Encounter with a Quantum Ghost” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/intru...um-ghost
 
“Jupiter Brains, Computronium, and the Physical Limits of Intelligence” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/02/jupit...lligence
 
“Light-bending leap: Scientists add time as new control dimension” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/light...imension
 
“Manus: China unveils ‘world’s first’ fully autonomous AI agent” by Jason Blain at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/manus...ai-agent
 
“Mars Terraforming Not Possible Using Present-Day Technology” by Mike Diverde at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/02/mars-...chnology
 
“‘Mirror Bacteria’ Warning: A New Kind of Life Could Pose a Global Threat” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/mirro...l-threat
 
“Molecular switch reverses cancerous transformation at the critical moment of transition” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/02/molec...ansition
 
“Moon or Mars? NASA’s future at a crossroads under Trump” by Natalie Chan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/moon-...er-trump
 
“Navigating the Daylight Saving Time Debate” by Scott Bleackley at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/navig...e-debate
 
“New technology could save declining honeybee populations” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/new-t...ulations
 
“Opening a new chapter in 3D microprinting with MXene” by Yuta Aoki at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/openi...th-mxene
 
“Quantum leap: Physicists make qubits speak light at room temperature” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/02/quant...perature
 
“Scientists Discovered a ‘Yellow Brick Road’ at The Bottom of The Pacific Ocean” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/scien...ic-ocean
 
“Scientists Have Discovered Shocking Amounts of Microplastics in the Brain — And It Could Be Increasing Our Risk of Dementia” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/scien...dementia
 
“Scientists Just Discovered an RNA That Repairs DNA Damage — And It’s a Game-Changer” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/scien...-changer
 
“Scientists Revive 24,000-year-old Frozen Organisms” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/scien...rganisms
 
“Scientists Unveil AI That Learns Without Human Labels — A Major Leap Toward True Intelligence!” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/02/scien...lligence
 
“Seismic clues from Marsquakes suggest liquid water and life potential beneath the surface” by Natalie Chan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/seism...-surface
 
“Subsense emerges with nanoparticle-based brain-computer interface” by Arthur Brown at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/02/subse...nterface
 
“This 800-Mile-Long Science Experiment Could Prove There Are Way More Than Four Dimensions” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/02/this-...mensions
 
“Tweezer-Assisted Subwavelength Positioning of Atomic Arrays in an Optical Cavity” by Cecile G. Tamura at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/02/tweez...l-cavity
 
“Uber wants Tesla’s robotaxis on its app — because ‘no one wants to compete’ against Elon Musk” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/02/uber-...lon-musk
 
“Unraveling the brain’s hidden motor modules” by Cecile G. Tamura at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/unrav...-modules
 
“Urolithin A Rejuvenates Old Stem Cells (Clip)” by Mike Lustgarten at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/02/uroli...lls-clip
 
“Who will win the AI race: $1 trillion dollar questions | Marc Andreessen and Lex Fridman” by Rx Sobolewski at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/02/who-w...-fridman
 
“Why GPT cannot think like us” by Natalie Chan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/why-g...-like-us
 
“Why the ageing process spikes at 44 and 60 (and how to stop it)” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/02/why-t...-stop-it
 
“Y Combinator Startups Are Fastest Growing, Most Profitable In Fund History Because Of Artificial Intelligence” by Bruce Burke at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/y-com...lligence
 
“Yale Scientists Reprogram Genetic Code To Create Revolutionary Synthetic Organism” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/02/yale-...organism

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