tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59421022024-03-07T09:35:00.312+02:00YksityisetsivaTämä identiteetti toimii seuraavat 15 minuuttiaYksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.comBlogger791125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-63428401631613154092014-01-28T13:45:00.000+02:002014-01-28T13:45:04.985+02:00Radical abundance<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/1bw6Zi17DBI?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-69661238940086454732013-08-07T11:33:00.003+03:002013-08-07T11:33:25.578+03:00How to Live in a World Made of Computers<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/JQ80abaIkq4?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-50825362964429949372013-01-25T17:41:00.002+02:002013-01-25T17:41:32.500+02:00Järkeä tekijänoikeuslakiin<a href="https://www.kansalaisaloite.fi/fi/aloite/70">Järkeä tekijänoikeuslakiin</a> - Käy ainakin allekirjoittamassa kansalaisaloite.Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-14995617245328088252013-01-13T23:04:00.001+02:002013-01-13T23:04:17.933+02:002013 ja muutokset jatkuvatRay Kurzweil siirtyi töihin Googlelle, molempien osapuolten eduksi.
<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YABUffpQY9w?rel=0" width="560"></iframe><br />
<br />
<a href="http://lesswrong.com/">Less Wrong</a>, <a href="http://appliedrationality.org/">Center for Applied Rationality</a> ja <a href="http://hpmor.com/"><i>Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality</i></a> jatkavat yleisen tervejärkisyyden levittämistä.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.sens.org/">SENS Foundation</a> jatkaa elämän radikaalin pidentämisen tutkimuksia.
<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/D1jaAMLg3uI?list=PL58538DDAEB0F088C" width="560"></iframe><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/">Future of Humanity Institute</a> jatkaa tulevaisuuden suurten kysymysten äärellä.<br />
<br />
Tiede-lehden numerossa 1/2013 on perinteinen juttu ihmiskehon vioista.<br />
<br />
Tämä oli perinteinen postaus blogin perinteisistä aiheista. Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-15026859889281780002012-08-10T19:15:00.000+03:002012-08-10T19:15:15.829+03:00Seurattavaa<a href="http://www.hplusdigitalseries.com/">H+ The Digital Series</a> -Bryan Singerin tuottama lyhytscifisarja YouTubessa. Ainakin 12 jaksoa tulossa, päivittyy keskiviikkoisin.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://tv2.yle.fi/juttuarkisto/paivittaiset-ohjelmanostot/hubotit-melkein-ihmisia">Hubotit</a> - Ruotsalainen scifisarja ihmismäisistä roboteista alkaa TV2:lla 16.8.<br />
<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_Py_xFXEUyc" width="560"></iframe>
<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html">Curiosity-mönkijän</a> matka Marsissa voi tietysti olla emotionaalisesti sykähdyttävämpää seurattavaa kuin yllämainitut.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/8/3177438/cyborg-america-biohackers-grinders-body-hackers">Cyborg America: inside the strange new world of basement body hackers</a><br />
<i>"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."</i><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120627142512.htm">Injecting Life-Saving Oxygen Into a Vein</a> - Happinestettä vereen.Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-21529000632441014262012-06-30T09:25:00.000+03:002012-06-30T09:25:18.747+03:00Aubrey de Grey Reddit AMA<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-tsI_28O3Ws" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-75219296195119762562012-03-02T13:59:00.006+02:002012-03-02T14:29:55.066+02:00Siirretään maaliviiva nirvanaan<a href="http://ylioppilaslehti.fi/2012/03/kyborgi/">Kyborgit, minne jäitte?</a> - Artikkeli kyborgeista Ylioppilaslehdessä. Mitä pidemmälle tekniikka kehittyy, sitä kauemmas <span style="font-style: italic;">oikean</span> 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.Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-3813212509532505332012-03-01T09:09:00.001+02:002012-03-01T09:20:54.810+02:00Ihminen 2.0<a href="http://www.city.fi/artikkeli/Ihminen+2.0/4478/">Ihminen 2.0</a> - Artikkeli transhumanismista City-lehdessä.Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-26092835661935797282011-06-22T10:28:00.002+03:002011-06-22T10:45:18.086+03:00Muistilinkkejä<a href="http://theeuropean-magazine.com/282-bostrom-nick/283-perfection-is-not-a-useful-concept">"Perfection Is Not A Useful Concept"</a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">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.<br /></span><br /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/science/17memory.html?_r=3">Memory Implant Gives Rats Sharper Recollection</a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">“Turn the switch on, the animal has the memory; turn it off and they don’t: that’s exactly how it worked,”</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/06/geomagnetic-vision/">Humans Could Have Geomagnetic Sight</a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Tests of cryptochrome 2, a key protein component of geomagnetic perception, found that its human version restored geomagnetic orientation in cryptochrome-deficient fruit flies.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-lab-grown-meat-emissions-energy.html">Lab-grown meat would 'cut emissions and save energy'</a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">‘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.’<br /></span>Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-17403481140809342932011-05-13T20:53:00.000+03:002011-05-13T20:54:28.230+03:00How To Live Forever<iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UZGDUFHhyko" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-78385765583749577012011-04-18T20:22:00.002+03:002011-04-18T20:30:54.028+03:00<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jdERgfgB9Yc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-75197050991817373492011-04-06T20:29:00.001+03:002011-04-06T20:35:05.397+03:00Äänestä Piraattia<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEVplWxfvq4hrCt0NFxTprx34JDonoLIkhW8dq7WBB60HtCjZOaK6xOzLxWIoUPgZf6-OU3hkfCpmo9L2UGqO3uvvCTDlOgAacm8-tE_0XdVA9ZovgMJJkdoU_z2jdaCO1hkYN/s1600/piraattipuolue-mtgcard.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 230px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEVplWxfvq4hrCt0NFxTprx34JDonoLIkhW8dq7WBB60HtCjZOaK6xOzLxWIoUPgZf6-OU3hkfCpmo9L2UGqO3uvvCTDlOgAacm8-tE_0XdVA9ZovgMJJkdoU_z2jdaCO1hkYN/s320/piraattipuolue-mtgcard.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592521929477756674" border="0" /></a>Mieluummin ääni hukkaan Piraateille kuin löysä taktikointiääni kakkosvaihtoehdolle galluphypetyksen perusteella.<br /><br /><a href="http://2011.piraattivaalit.fi/">2011.piraattivaalit.fi</a><br /><a href="http://www.uskonnonvapaus.fi/vaalit/eduskunta2011/">Uskonnonvapaus.fi vaalikone</a><br /><a href="http://www.homofobia.fi/?sivu=eduskuntavaalit">Älä äänestä homofobiaa eduskuntaan</a>Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-86761467547265020112011-02-11T10:33:00.001+02:002011-02-11T10:35:46.394+02:00Odota heilahduksia<a href="http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138-1,00.html">2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal</a><br /><blockquote>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.</blockquote><br /><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/transcending-the-human-diy-style/">Transcending the Human, DIY Style</a> - Jos lääkärit eivät suostu asentamaan magneetteja ihon alle, hätäilijät tekevät sen itse ja päätyvät lääkäriin.Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-83122868645981640252010-12-22T12:03:00.003+02:002010-12-22T12:46:55.138+02:00Simplified Humanism and Positive Futurism<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/17513355" width="400" height="265" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://singinst.org/holiday_challenge">Tallinn-Evans $125,000 Singularity Holiday Challenge</a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">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.<br /></span>Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-32290249178812285502010-12-09T16:30:00.000+02:002010-12-09T16:32:00.000+02:00Muistilinkkejä<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/06/david-nutt-drugs-alcohol">David Nutt: 'The government cannot think logically about drugs'</a><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/dec/05/government-scientific-advice-drugs-policy">Government proposes to scrap need for scientific advice on drugs policy</a><br /><br /><a href="http://singularityhub.com/2010/12/09/how-was-the-billionaires-singularity-dinner-see-for-yourself-in-these-videos/">How Was the Billionaire’s Singularity Dinner?</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.coroflot.com/kaylenek/PROSTHETIC-ARM?school_name=University+of+Washington%2C+College+of+Built+Environments&">Lonkerokäsiproteesi</a><br /><br /><a href="http://wikileaks.foreignpolicy.com/">WikiLeaked</a><br /><br /><a href="http://live.piraattipuolue.fi/">live.piraattipuolue.fi</a>Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-33161122034373761532010-11-12T13:04:00.001+02:002010-11-12T13:12:34.516+02:00Muistilinkkejä<a href="http://singularityu.org/news/2010/11/nokia-supports-singularity-university-as-fifth-corporate-founder/">Nokia Supports Singularity University as Fifth Corporate Founder</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.tiede.fi/uutiset/4076/sahkovirta_aivoihin_parantaa_matemaattisia_taitoja">Sähkövirta aivoihin parantaa matemaattisia taitoja</a><br /><a href="http://www.practicalethicsnews.com/practicalethics/2010/11/why-bioenhancement-of-mathematical-ability-is-ethically-important.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+PracticalEthics+%28Practical+Ethics%29">Why Bioenhancement of Mathematical Ability Is Ethically Important</a><br /><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-gene-discovery-fast-growing.html"><br />Gene discovery suggests way to engineer fast-growing plants</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.publicknowledge.org/it-will-be-awesome-if-they-dont-screw-it-up">It Will Be Awesome if They Don’t Screw it Up</a>: 3D Printing, Intellectual Property, and the Fight Over the Next Great Disruptive Technology<br /><blockquote>One of the goals of this whitepaper is to prepare the 3D printing community, and the public at large, before incumbents try to cripple 3D printing with restrictive intellectual property laws. By understanding how intellectual property law relates to 3D printing, and how changes might impact 3D printing’s future, this time we will be ready when incumbents come calling to Congress.</blockquote>Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-27369474001286605442010-11-03T13:02:00.001+02:002010-11-03T13:03:27.028+02:00Muistilinkkejä<a href="https://transvision2010.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/transvision-2010-presentation-by-eugen-leitl/">Cryonics: Understanding Why It Failed</a> - TransVision 2010 Presentation by Eugen Leitl<br /><blockquote>Lakatos proposed a model of scientific advance wherein there is a “hard core” of scientific or mathematical theory which is surrounded by a “protective belt” of gentle inquiry. It is work going on within this protective belt that incrementally advances or erodes the hard core of the paradigm. Virtually all of routine scientific research (institutional science) operates in the zone of this protective belt while revolutionary, or paradigm changing ideas, penetrate it, smash the hard core, and thus demolish the whole structure. Cryonics, like Natural Selection, or the theories of General and Special Relativity, is core-smashing in character, and in the case of cryonics, the idea is so antithetical to the existing order of civilization that it can it only be advanced by insurgent means. This is so because cryonics overturns the Vitalistic view of life, challenges the conventional definition of death, invalidates the core tenets of contemporary medicine, erodes the need for a mystical afterlife, radically redistributes capital (disrupts inheritance, bequests, and mortuary customs), mandates a complete change in reproductive behavior, perturbs generational succession, requires space colonization, requires (and supports) profoundly disruptive technologies such as cloning, regenerative medicine, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and finally, ends the species and enables, if not requires Transhumanism.</blockquote><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/oct/05/free-online-content-cory-doctorow">The real cost of free</a><br /><blockquote>As I've written here before, copying isn't going to get harder, ever. Hard drives won't magically get bulkier but hold fewer bits and cost more. Networks won't be harder to use. PCs won't be slower. People won't stop learning to type "Toy Story 3 bittorrent" into Google. Anyone who claims otherwise is selling something – generally some kind of unworkable magic anti-copying beans that they swear, this time, will really work.</blockquote><br /><a href="http://www.good.is/post/automation-insurance-robots-are-replacing-middle-class-jobs/">Robots Are Replacing Middle Class Jobs</a><br /><blockquote>On the low end of the spectrum, we have physical jobs that we can’t automate yet (yard work, for example). On the high end of the spectrum, we have creative and cognitive jobs that we can’t automate yet (law and management, for example). But as technology advances, and it certainly will, more people are going to be elbowed out of the workforce. We may be heading toward a future with plentiful high-end jobs and plentiful low-end jobs, and not much in the middle.<br />-- If the skills and talents that are truly financially rewarding become harder and <span class="s3">harder to acquire, people who would </span>never consider themselves students of Marx might start questioning whether, given the circumstances, it still makes sense to pay people<span class="s3"> based solely on the demand for their skills in a marketplace that would be demanding very few skills.</span></blockquote><br /><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/25964/?nlid=3722">Chatbot Wears Down Proponents of Anti-Science Nonsense</a><br /><blockquote>In a way, what Leck has created is a pro-active search engine: it answers twitter users who aren't even aware of their own ignorance.</blockquote>Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-68537342159794846522010-10-06T11:50:00.003+03:002010-10-06T11:54:37.862+03:00Parempien tapojen lisäksi<a href="http://kryoniikka.blogspot.com/2010/10/kuulumisia-saksan-seminaarista.html">Kuulumisia Saksan seminaarista</a> - Kryoniikkaseuran matkaraporttia Goslarista ja uusi organisaatio <a href="http://www.eucrio.eu/">EUCRIO</a> pyrkii tarjoamaan kryoniikkapalveluita Euroopassa.<br /><br /><a href="http://eufemia.blogspot.com/2010/09/toisten-ihmisten-ongelmat.html">Toisten ihmisten ongelmat</a> - Hyvin pärjäävä ei käsitä miksi joku pärjää niin huonosti asioissa, joissa itse pärjää hyvin. Jos neuvot masentunutta, että luuserin pitäisi vain ottaa itseään niskasta kiinni, se on kuin neuvoisi jalatonta, että luuserin pitäisi vain lähteä lenkille.<br /><br /><a href="http://viite.fi/?p=189">Miltei vihrein keksintö</a> - Geenimuuntelu on hyväksi ympäristölle. Viisi vastausta vasta-argumentteihin.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/24/1">This is a news website article about a scientific paper</a> - Tämä on lyhyt kommentti linkin takana olevan artikkelin sisällöstä.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.astrobio.net/exclusive/3617/cyborgs-needed-for-escape-from-earth">Cyborgs Needed for Escape from Earth</a><br /><blockquote>"If our objective is to become space-faring people, it's probably going to force you to reconsider how to reengineer humans."</blockquote><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8024991/Patients-to-be-frozen-into-state-of-suspended-animation-for-surgery.html">Patients to be frozen into state of suspended animation for surgery</a>Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-26399976296904960262010-09-14T15:31:00.001+03:002010-09-14T15:32:27.018+03:00Muistilinkkejä<a href="http://50cyborgs.tumblr.com/">50 Posts About Cyborgs</a><br /><blockquote>Cooking acts as a supplemental external stomach. Once humans acquired this artificial organ it permitted them to evolve smaller teeth and smaller jaw muscles and provided more kinds of stuff to eat. Our invention altered us. - <a href="http://quietbabylon.com/?p=1980&preview=true">Domesticated Cyborgs</a></blockquote><a href="http://www.hplusmagazine.com/editors-blog/emotiv-epoc-eeg-headset-hacked"><br />Emotiv EPOC EEG Headset Hacked</a><br /><blockquote>Another company can come along and replace Emotiv pretty easily. They are missing out on a huge opportunity here, and time and again we see companies locking stuff down instead of harnessing developers.</blockquote><br /><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11137903">Charles Darwin's ecological experiment on Ascension isle</a><br /><blockquote>In effect, what Darwin, Hooker and the Royal Navy achieved was the world's first experiment in "terra-forming". They created a self-sustaining and self-reproducing ecosystem in order to make Ascension Island more habitable. Wilkinson thinks that the principles that emerge from that experiment could be used to transform future colonies on Mars. In other words, rather than trying to improve an environment by force, the best approach might be to work with life to help it "find its own way".</blockquote><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/special/zeros-to-heroes-10-unlikely-ideas-that-changed-the-world"><br />Zeros to heroes: 10 unlikely ideas that changed the world</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13556-10-impossibilities-conquered-by-science.html?full=true">10 impossibilities conquered by science </a>Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-18930665238213036992010-08-22T17:45:00.000+03:002010-08-22T17:46:53.362+03:00Immortal Kids<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wt6nwvGJiN8?fs=1&hl=fi_FI"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wt6nwvGJiN8?fs=1&hl=fi_FI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-5040566199552804562010-08-18T19:02:00.000+03:002010-08-18T19:02:00.729+03:00Muistilinkkejä<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/health/research/13alzheimer.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&hp">Rare Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s</a><br /><blockquote>“It’s not science the way most of us have practiced it in our careers. But we all realized that we would never get biomarkers unless all of us parked our egos and intellectual-property noses outside the door and agreed that all of our data would be public immediately.”</blockquote><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748704407804575425561952689390.html">The Power Trip</a><br /><blockquote>"It's an incredibly consistent effect," Mr. Keltner says. "When you give people power, they basically start acting like fools. They flirt inappropriately, tease in a hostile fashion, and become totally impulsive." Mr. Keltner compares the feeling of power to brain damage, noting that people with lots of authority tend to behave like neurological patients with a damaged orbito-frontal lobe, a brain area that's crucial for empathy and decision-making. Even the most virtuous people can be undone by the corner office. </blockquote><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10928032">Cult of less: Living out of a hard drive</a><br /><blockquote>Mr Yurista feels by digitising his life, he no longer has to worry about dusting, organising and cleaning his possessions. And he says his new intangible goods can continue to live on indefinitely with little maintenance.<br /></blockquote><a href="http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/147626/5_stupid,_unfair_and_sexist_things_expected_of_men/?page=entire">5 Stupid, Unfair and Sexist Things Expected of Men</a><br /><blockquote>The laws and expectations of our civilized society are designed to keep physical violence to a minimum. And for good reason: physical violence is, you know, destructive. So men are expected -- indeed required -- to avoid and deflect confrontation, and to resolve conflicts without resorting to violence. And when they do, they get called pussies. Nice.<br /></blockquote>Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-90495125227283868692010-07-28T15:31:00.002+03:002010-07-28T15:48:31.217+03:00Huonoja uutisia, hyviä faktoja<a href="http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/07/26/wikileaks_afghan.html">The Afghanistan War Logs Released by Wikileaks, the World's First Stateless News Organization</a><br /><blockquote>“It’s counterintuitive,” he said then. “You’d think the bigger and more important the document is, the more likely it will be reported on but that’s absolutely not true. It’s about supply and demand. Zero supply equals high demand, it has value. As soon as we release the material, the supply goes to infinity, so the perceived value goes to zero.”</blockquote><br /><a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire/?page=full">How facts backfire</a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote>In an ideal world, citizens would be able to maintain constant vigilance, monitoring both the information they receive and the way their brains are processing it. But keeping atop the news takes time and effort. And relentless self-questioning, as centuries of philosophers have shown, can be exhausting. Our brains are designed to create cognitive shortcuts — inference, intuition, and so forth — to avoid precisely that sort of discomfort while coping with the rush of information we receive on a daily basis. Without those shortcuts, few things would ever get done. Unfortunately, with them, we’re easily suckered by political falsehoods.</blockquote></div>Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-63435081250480032532010-06-29T00:08:00.001+03:002010-06-29T00:27:41.047+03:00Muistilinkkejä<object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9-aQKRw6XF4&hl=fi_FI&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9-aQKRw6XF4&hl=fi_FI&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="340" width="560"></embed></object><br /><br /><ul><li><a href="http://metamodern.com/2010/06/16/needless-megadeaths-a-suggestion-for-science-in-the-public-interest/">Needless Megadeaths: A Suggestion for Science in the Public Interest</a></li><li><a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/4035/">Why “Why Transhumanism Won’t Work” Won’t Work</a></li><li><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10404251.stm">Bionic feet for amputee cat</a></li></ul>Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-84036170853169765052010-06-20T17:33:00.000+03:002010-06-20T17:34:05.175+03:00Muistilinkkejä<ul><li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/business/13sing.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all">In the Singularity Movement, Humans Are So Yesterday</a></li><li><a href="http://www.alternet.org/health/147107/the_new_field_of_neurodiversity:_why_%27disabilities%27_are_essential_to_the_human_ecosystem?page=entire">The New Field of Neurodiversity: Why 'Disabilities' Are Essential to the Human Ecosystem</a></li><li><a href="http://issendai.livejournal.com/572510.html">How to keep someone with you forever</a></li><li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/magazine/20Computer-t.html?pagewanted=all">What Is I.B.M.’s Watson?</a></li><li><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/06/04/2916443.htm">Cyborg rights 'need debating now'</a></li></ul>Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942102.post-86078181629966945612010-06-06T20:53:00.002+03:002010-06-06T20:55:56.681+03:00Whole Brain Emulation<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kRB6Qzx9oXs&hl=fi_FI&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kRB6Qzx9oXs&hl=fi_FI&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>Yksityisetsivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752074028161458708noreply@blogger.com0