A new story on transhumanism from Tech Insider which is Business Insider’s new tech site:
This presidential candidate wants you to live forever.
Research and development in human–robot trust is the cutting edge of artificial intelligence, but faith in machines can often be misplaced.
A little know startup in Seattle could do for metal what 3D printing is doing for other materials like plastic.
Matter that drops into a black hole is gone forever, right? Not so, declares Stephen Hawking.
Our brains didn’t evolve to deal with understanding exponential growth, it’s freaking terrifying.
Dune, 50 years on: how a science fiction novel changed the world — By Hari Kunzru | The Guardian
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“It has sold millions of copies, is perhaps the greatest novel in the science-fiction canon and Star Wars wouldn’t have existed without it. Frank Herbert’s Dune should endure as a politically relevant fantasy from the Age of Aquarius.”
Philip E. Tetlock presents findings from the Good Judgment Project:
In 1984, Tetlock began holding “forecasting tournaments” in which selected candidates were asked questions about the course of events. Accuracy rates have exceeded IARPA’s expectations.
To arrive at the edge of the world’s knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.
Finally, there’s a crowdfunding campaign for people who want to watch giant robots fight to the death.
MegaBots Inc. — a Boston-based company that builds huge, human-operated, fighting robots — launched a Kickstarter campaign today (Aug. 19) to raise money to develop a huge, gun-toting robot, in preparation for an upcoming “duel” with a similar “battle bot” from Japan.
The campaign has already drawn in nearly $200,000 of the requested $500,000, and robot fans have until Sept. 18 to contribute funds. [See photos of MegaBots’ massive “battle bot”].
After a wide analysis of evidence, researchers have come up with a number of factors that appear to have the strongest influence on the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
Nearly 17,000 studies, released from 1968 to 2014, were scrutinized and 323 were chosen — covering 93 different risk factors. After collecting the data and grading factors according to their impact strength, researchers came up with a number that had a Grade 1 impact.
So what are they?