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Check out our second promo for #transvision #future Summit 2021 (#madrid Oct. 8 — 12), featuring the optional dinner/cocktails we are scheduling, and 2 full-day #tours of several #unescoworldheritage sites and historical places near Madrid: Segovia, Ávila, Monsaterio de El Escorial & Valley of the Fallen on Oct. 11 and Alcalá de Henares, Aranjuez & Toledo on Oct. 12. It’s going to be espectacular! You don’t wanna miss those, so get your tickets now! 😊 Get your tickets here -> www.TransVisionMadrid.com.

The event itself will be a lot of fun, so make sure to register to come to Madrid in person, or to watch it via streaming (at a reduced price). There will be talks about #longevity #artificialintelligence #cryonics and much much more.

Promo by Sergio Tarrero for Alianza Futurista as Diamond Sponsor of TransVision Future Summit 2021. Alianza Futurista will also provide live video production, streaming and post production services for this event.

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http://www.TransVisionMadrid.com.

Promo by Sergio M.L. Tarrero for Alianza Futurista, proud Diamond Sponsor of #TransVision Future Summit 2021.

Spain will host the next global future summit #TransVision on October 8 9 and 10 2021. Humanity+ will be the main international organizer of this international event. Afterwards, during October 11 and 12 we will continue with informal conversations while traveling to UNESCO World Heritage Sites around Madrid: Alcalá de Henares, Aranjuez, Ávila, El Escorial, Segovia y Toledo. Every night will finish with optional cocktails in beautiful places for networking and meeting the participants and speakers.

The topics covered will be very broad, from recent medical advances, to artificial intelligence and robotics. The first keynote speakers will be the world famous Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey. Additionally, #TransVision 2021 will feature other keynote presentations, such as those from futurist movement pioneers Max More, Natasha Vita-More, Ben Goertzel and Anders Sandberg, members of Humanity+ and other leading institutions.

#TransVision 2021 collaborates with leading organizations working on futurist concepts such as life extension, artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, space travel, human enhancement, blockchain and other future technologies and trends. The first #TransVision conference was held in 1998 in the Netherlands, and since there we have hosted 14 international summits in cities like Berlin, Brussels, Caracas, Chicago, Helsinki, London, Madrid, Milano, Paris, Stockholm and Toronto.

#TransVision 2021 will be hosted in the historic Madrid College of Medicine (Ilustre Colegio Oficial de Médicos de Madrid), and there will be live streaming for those who can’t come in person to beautiful Madrid.

Register here: www.TransVisionMadrid.com.

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Maya Ajmera, President & CEO of Society for Science & the Public and Publisher of Science News, chatted with Ray Kurzweil, an alumnus of the Science Talent Search and a renowned inventor and futurist. Kurzweil also has written five best-selling books, is Cofounder and Chancellor of Singularity University and is a Director of Engineering at Google. We are thrilled to share an edited summary of their conversation.

You are an alum of the1965Science Talent Search. How did the competition impact your life, and are there any particular moments that still stand out for you?

The Westinghouse Science Talent Search was the first time I was recognized nationally. President Johnson had just been elected and we met him at the White House. He told us his goal was that our generation would never see the horrors of war.

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A new book, published this week, explains where aging research is heading – and what you can do today to extend your healthspan. https://www.futuretimeline.net/.…/28-the-science-and…

Editorial reviews.

“A very compelling book.” —Ray Kurzweil, inventor and futurist.

“Being alive and healthy is the greatest joy that exists, and there has never been a better time to be alive than today. This book is going to open your mind to just how real and close-at-hand the ambition of defeating death is!” —Peter Diamandis, founder of the XPRIZE Foundation.

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While it is always proper to treat the idea of “inevitability” or the promise of utopia with skepticism, it would also be irresponsible to ignore what is fast becoming an undeniable trend. From all outward appearances, technological change is an anthropogenic trend subject to acceleration, and the speed at which changes are coming is reaching a critical point.

Reality check

Of course, there is no shortage of naysayers, skeptics, and doubters regarding the Technological Singularity and similar predictions. In one camp, you have those who cite past claims such as flying cars, floating cities, and other futuristic visions that were predicted to come true by the 21st century.

While some speculative thinkers have proven to be bang on in the past, predicting the future has always suffered from a rather high failure rate. Second, some challenge the rather utopian outlook of thinkers like Ray Kurzweil, Peter Diamandis, and other Singularitarians who believe that this event will usher in a future of abundance and limitless opportunities.

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Check out our new promo for #transvision #future Summit 2021! Get your tickets! -> www.TransVisionMadrid.com There will be talks about #longevity #artificialintelligence #cryonics and much much more. You will also be able to network with speakers and attendees during 5 optional dinner/cocktails, and 2 tours of several UNESCO heritage sites and historical places: Ávila, Segovia, Monsaterio de El Escorial, Valle de los Caídos (Valley of the Fallen), Aranjuez & Toledo.

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Promo by sergio tarrero for alianza futurista & transvision madrid.

http://www.TransVisionMadrid.com.

Spain will host the next world futurist summit on October 8, 9 and 10, 2021. Humanity+ will be the main international organizer of this international congress. Afterwards, during October 11 and 12, we will continue with informal conversations while traveling to UNESCO World Heritage Sites around Madrid: Aranjuez, Ávila, El Escorial, Segovia y Toledo. Every night will finish with optional cocktails in beautiful places for networking and meeting the participants and speakers.

The topics covered will be very broad, from recent medical advances, to artificial intelligence and robotics. The first keynote speakers will be the world famous Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Gray. Additionally, TransVision 2021 will feature other keynote presentations, such as those from futurist movement pioneers Max More, Natasha Vita-More and Ben Goertzel, members of Humanity+ and other leading institutions.

#TransVision collaborates with leading organizations working on futurist concepts such as life extension, artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, space travel, human enhancement, blockchain and other future technologies and trends. The first TransVision conference was held in 1998 in the Netherlands, and since there we have hosted 14 international summits in cities like Berlin, Brussels, Caracas, Chicago, Helsinki, London, Madrid, Milano, Paris, Stockholm and Toronto.

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Experts predict that we’ll be able to live up to 20% longer over the next 100 years. Here’s how humans are trying to live forever. Andrea Schmitz and Benji Jones Apr 3, 2019, 12:00 PM @ These potential treatments for aging could unlock cures to a range of age-related illnesses, from cancer to heart disease – Charlotte Hu Aug 20, 2018, 1:21 PM @ Animals that defy the rules of aging — like naked mole rats — could help scientists unravel the secrets to longevity – Charlotte Hu Aug 15, 2018, 2:54 PM @ Everything you thought you knew about aging is wrong – Erin Brodwin Apr 27, 2016, 12:13 PM *© 2021 Insider Inc. @ Other very important information, images, YouTube Videos (Ray Kurzweil – Physical Immortality – 3 de jan. de 2017 & Ray Kurzweil + Disruptive Technologies and Dangerous Ideas – 5 de dez. de 2017), websites, social networks and links.

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Circa 2010

Updated at 18:30 EST to correct timeline of prediction to 2030 from 2020 Reverse-engineering the human brain so we can simulate it using computers may be just two decades away, says Ray Kurzweil, artificial intelligence expert and author of the best-selling book The Singularity is Near. It would be the first step toward creating machines \[…\].

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A rejuvenation roadmap, and some info on Rejuvenate Bio.

Ray Kurzweil predicted the Technological Singularity will be reached in 2045. This actually means there will be strong AI, something like AGI that is 1 billion times more capable than the human brain in many aspects.

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SHOW NOTES
2:31 Who is Peter Voss and what is Ai-GO? https://aigo.ai
6:51 Problems with AGI: Cognitive-Psychology, Mathematics, and Intelligence
10:12 AI and Life-Extension : Robotic surgeons, machine learning, and gero-disease modeling
14:03 Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) VS Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI)
19:41 Will Ai and Life-extension ever intersect? : similarities, funding, and the “Narrow AI-Trap“
24:37 Virtual Medical Assistants and Personalized-Medicine
28:28 Can Death-Anxiety lead to self-aware A.I? : Chatbots VS Metacognition
30:34 Is Quantum Computing necessary for AGI? : The “Quantum Supremacy” Grift
33:02 Is there “Moore’s Law” growth in Quantum-Computing? : The Error-Correction problem
35:27 Does consciousness arises at the atomic level? : Penrose-Hammeroff ORCH/OR Theory
41:12 “Being and Time” : Language, grounding concepts, and Voss’s “Hellen-Hawking” theory of A.I
46:32 Voss’ Life-Extension Praxis : Cryonics, Caloric Restriction, Sleep and Longevity Escape Velocity
49:25 Call-to-Action : Business, Marketing, and Financial Escape Velocity
1:02:02 1st Wave A.I (logic trees), 2nd Wave A.I (neural networks), & 3rd-Wave A.I (adaptive architecture)
1:06:31 Elon Musk, Open-AI, and Government regulation of Voss’s approach to A.I (adaptive)
1:10:00 Using A.I based Epidemiology models to prevent Pandemics (Coronavirus/Covid-19)
1:11:51 Where will A.I be in the next 10 years? : Voss VS Kurzweil
1:15:33 Intelligence Explosion : Could AGI ever become ASI? (Artificial Super Intelligence)
1:19:00 Hollywood on AI : Terminator, Ex Machina, Her, Millenial Man
1:19:43 Conclusion : What can we do to help fund AGI?

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I always enjoy the perspective of David Wood, and in this session of the London Futurists there is a panel discussion about genetic engineering in the future.

Our DNA is becoming as readable, writable, and hackable as our information technology. The resulting genetic revolution is poised to transform our healthcare, our choices for the characteristics of the next generation, and our evolution as a species. The future could bring breathtaking advances in human well-being, but it could also descend into a dangerous genetic arms race.

These claims are made in the recent book “Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity”, https://hackingdarwin.com/ by Technology Futurist Jamie Metzl, https://jamiemetzl.com/

Jamie’s view is that society isn’t at all ready for the fast-approaching future of widespread genetic hacking.

Here is some feedback for his book:

*) “An outstanding guide to the most important conversation of our lives” — Ray Kurzweil
*) “A gifted and thoughtful writer, Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and reveals a world full of promise and peril.” — Siddhartha Mukherjee MD

This 90 minute live London Futurists webinar also featured, in addition to Jamie Metzl, two other distinguished panellists:

*) Nessa Carey, http://www.nessacarey.co.uk/ is a virologist, researcher, and Visiting Professor in Molecular Biology at Imperial College London. Nessa is the author of “The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance”, “Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome”, and, most recently, “Hacking the Code of Life: How gene editing will rewrite our futures”, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hacking-Code-Life-editing-rewrite/dp/1785784978/

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