A new introduction: “APM in brief” (and its physical principles)
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25.1.13
Järkeä tekijänoikeuslakiin
Järkeä tekijänoikeuslakiin - Käy ainakin allekirjoittamassa kansalaisaloite.
13.1.13
2013 ja muutokset jatkuvat
Ray Kurzweil siirtyi töihin Googlelle, molempien osapuolten eduksi.
Less Wrong, Center for Applied Rationality ja Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality jatkavat yleisen tervejärkisyyden levittämistä.
SENS Foundation jatkaa elämän radikaalin pidentämisen tutkimuksia.
Future of Humanity Institute jatkaa tulevaisuuden suurten kysymysten äärellä.
Tiede-lehden numerossa 1/2013 on perinteinen juttu ihmiskehon vioista.
Tämä oli perinteinen postaus blogin perinteisistä aiheista.
Less Wrong, Center for Applied Rationality ja Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality jatkavat yleisen tervejärkisyyden levittämistä.
SENS Foundation jatkaa elämän radikaalin pidentämisen tutkimuksia.
Future of Humanity Institute jatkaa tulevaisuuden suurten kysymysten äärellä.
Tiede-lehden numerossa 1/2013 on perinteinen juttu ihmiskehon vioista.
Tämä oli perinteinen postaus blogin perinteisistä aiheista.
10.8.12
Seurattavaa
H+ The Digital Series -Bryan Singerin tuottama lyhytscifisarja YouTubessa. Ainakin 12 jaksoa tulossa, päivittyy keskiviikkoisin.
Hubotit - Ruotsalainen scifisarja ihmismäisistä roboteista alkaa TV2:lla 16.8.
Curiosity-mönkijän matka Marsissa voi tietysti olla emotionaalisesti sykähdyttävämpää seurattavaa kuin yllämainitut.
Cyborg America: inside the strange new world of basement body hackers
"I view it as kind of taking the pain for the people who are going to come after me. We’re paying now so that it will become socially acceptable later."
Injecting Life-Saving Oxygen Into a Vein - Happinestettä vereen.
Hubotit - Ruotsalainen scifisarja ihmismäisistä roboteista alkaa TV2:lla 16.8.
Curiosity-mönkijän matka Marsissa voi tietysti olla emotionaalisesti sykähdyttävämpää seurattavaa kuin yllämainitut.
Cyborg America: inside the strange new world of basement body hackers
"I view it as kind of taking the pain for the people who are going to come after me. We’re paying now so that it will become socially acceptable later."
Injecting Life-Saving Oxygen Into a Vein - Happinestettä vereen.
2.3.12
Siirretään maaliviiva nirvanaan
Kyborgit, minne jäitte? - Artikkeli kyborgeista Ylioppilaslehdessä. Mitä pidemmälle tekniikka kehittyy, sitä kauemmas oikean kyborgin rajaa siirretään. Ja kun se oikea-oikea kyborgi joskus saavutetaan, sitten katsotaan taaksepäin ja sanotaan, että se oikea kyborgi olikin oikeastaan joku aiempi malli.
1.3.12
22.6.11
Muistilinkkejä
"Perfection Is Not A Useful Concept"
Bostrom: We have to distinguish between positional and non-positional goods. In economics, a positional good benefits you only because others lack it. Height may be an advantage in men, but if everybody were three inches taller, nobody would be better off. Attractiveness may be another example of a positional good. A gain for one person implies a relative loss for others. I would contrast that with a trait like health. Your life is better when you are healthy, even if others are also healthy. Cognitive enhancements are a complex topic, but they have aspects that are intrinsically valuable. It is good if we can understand the world better. Arguments against positional goods are no arguments against enhancements as such.
Memory Implant Gives Rats Sharper Recollection
“Turn the switch on, the animal has the memory; turn it off and they don’t: that’s exactly how it worked,”
Humans Could Have Geomagnetic Sight
Tests of cryptochrome 2, a key protein component of geomagnetic perception, found that its human version restored geomagnetic orientation in cryptochrome-deficient fruit flies.
Lab-grown meat would 'cut emissions and save energy'
‘What our study found was that the environmental impacts of cultured meat could be substantially lower than those of meat produced in the conventional way,’ said Hanna Tuomisto of Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, who led the research. ‘Cultured meat could potentially be produced with up to 96% lower greenhouse gas emissions, 45% less energy, 99% lower land use, and 96% lower water use than conventional meat.’
Bostrom: We have to distinguish between positional and non-positional goods. In economics, a positional good benefits you only because others lack it. Height may be an advantage in men, but if everybody were three inches taller, nobody would be better off. Attractiveness may be another example of a positional good. A gain for one person implies a relative loss for others. I would contrast that with a trait like health. Your life is better when you are healthy, even if others are also healthy. Cognitive enhancements are a complex topic, but they have aspects that are intrinsically valuable. It is good if we can understand the world better. Arguments against positional goods are no arguments against enhancements as such.
Memory Implant Gives Rats Sharper Recollection
“Turn the switch on, the animal has the memory; turn it off and they don’t: that’s exactly how it worked,”
Humans Could Have Geomagnetic Sight
Tests of cryptochrome 2, a key protein component of geomagnetic perception, found that its human version restored geomagnetic orientation in cryptochrome-deficient fruit flies.
Lab-grown meat would 'cut emissions and save energy'
‘What our study found was that the environmental impacts of cultured meat could be substantially lower than those of meat produced in the conventional way,’ said Hanna Tuomisto of Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, who led the research. ‘Cultured meat could potentially be produced with up to 96% lower greenhouse gas emissions, 45% less energy, 99% lower land use, and 96% lower water use than conventional meat.’
13.5.11
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Äänestä Piraattia
Mieluummin ääni hukkaan Piraateille kuin löysä taktikointiääni kakkosvaihtoehdolle galluphypetyksen perusteella.2011.piraattivaalit.fi
Uskonnonvapaus.fi vaalikone
Älä äänestä homofobiaa eduskuntaan
11.2.11
Odota heilahduksia
2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal
Transcending the Human, DIY Style - Jos lääkärit eivät suostu asentamaan magneetteja ihon alle, hätäilijät tekevät sen itse ja päätyvät lääkäriin.
They think in terms of deep time, they believe in the power of technology to shape history, they have little interest in the conventional wisdom about anything, and they cannot believe you're walking around living your life and watching TV as if the artificial-intelligence revolution were not about to erupt and change absolutely everything. They have no fear of sounding ridiculous; your ordinary citizen's distaste for apparently absurd ideas is just an example of irrational bias, and Singularitarians have no truck with irrationality. When you enter their mind-space you pass through an extreme gradient in worldview, a hard ontological shear that separates Singularitarians from the common run of humanity. Expect turbulence.
Transcending the Human, DIY Style - Jos lääkärit eivät suostu asentamaan magneetteja ihon alle, hätäilijät tekevät sen itse ja päätyvät lääkäriin.
22.12.10
Simplified Humanism and Positive Futurism
Tallinn-Evans $125,000 Singularity Holiday Challenge
Jaan Tallinn, a founder of Skype and Ambient Sound Investments, and Edwin Evans, CEO of the mobile applications startup Quinly, every contribution to the Singularity Institute up until January 20, 2010 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $125,000.
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