I challenge you to fill this box... with porn - Hauska mainostemppu rahan keräämiseksi Singularity Institutelle: lähetä vanhat DVD:t, pelit ja muut (aikuis)viihdetuotteet Floridaan, missä mies myy ne netissä ja lahjoittaa rahat SIAI:lle.
Näillä main on ehkä parempi myydä turhat tuotteensa itse ja lahjoittaa rahat suoraan ilman välikäsiä. TAI lahjoittaa heti ja myydä turhat rojunsa myöhemmin. Peter Thiel tuplaa lahjoituksesi vain ensi viikon perjantaihin asti, joten kannattaa kiirehtiä.
Hawk-10 - Mikroaaltouuni muuttaa muovin takaisin öljyksi. (Kiitos, Alari.)
Liam Hoekstra, the Mini Superman; Rare condition gives toddler super strength - Vielä ei ole sellaista pilleriä, jolla jokainen saisi myostatiininsa kontrolliin (vaikka huijarit jo kaupittelevatkin "myagraa" kehonrakentajille), mutta jonakin päivänä voimme kaikki saada sarjakuvamuskelit.
Simply put Liam is all muscle and very little body fat. He weighs a mere 22 pounds. Thankfully the condition doesn't affect the heart and has no known negative side effects. -- The hardest part of parenting their little muscle man is getting enough protein into him. Liam eats six full size meals a day and still struggles to gain weight.
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The first human case was documented in 2000, in a German boy, but wasn't reported in medical literature until 2004. The condition is so rare in humans that scientists don't know how many people have it, said Dr. Kathryn R. Wagner, a genetics expert at Johns Hopkins.
Laskuvarjohyppy avaruudesta - Orbital Outfitters kehittää sopivaa pukua.
An entrepreneur starts a biotech to save her daughter's life - Jutun aiheena Martine Rothblatt
LiftPort rebuttal to Slashdot discussion
There are many other problems, including regulations, social, political, military, religion, governmental, environmental, financing, management, accounting and many more. A common sound bite of Mr. Laine is, "Even if we had all the parts, all the widgets and gadgets, sitting somewhere in a werehouse, we STILL could not build it - the other, the "fuzzy" problems still exist." If you're truly interested, get involved. We are developing (a brand new effort) an "open source" philosophy around our elevator to space. We are putting together a wiki (much work is needed here) that will outline, and then be used to explore the various issues.
Canadian couples discover sex selection loophole - DNA Worldwide lähettää kotitestin, jolla voi määritellä tulevan lapsen sukupuolen.
Without a doubt, Canadian couples would use sex selection as a means to ensure family balancing—which in today’s two-kids-per-couple Canada translates to—*aghast*—an equal distribution of one girl and one boy.
The Vertical Farm Project - Kasvihuonekerrostalo. Samaan aikaan toisaalla: Paolo Solerin konsepti Solare, Lean Linear City, rivitalokaupunki.
Transhumanists Don’t Need Special Dispositions - Lisää peruskauraa. Transhumanisti ei tarvitse mitään "outoa halua" elää ikuisesti, koska ihan tavallinen halu elää riittää. Mitä yllättymisen arvoista siinä on, jos kaveri sanoo haluavansa elää? Enemmän pitäisi yllättyä siitä, jos kaveri haluaa kuolla. Ja mitä outoa on siinä, että haluaa käyttää elämänsä säilyttämiseen juuri teknologiaa? Ei tarvitse olla teknofiili tai palvoa liukuhihnarobotteja, jos haluaa korjata autonsa tavallisilla työkaluilla. Enemmän pitäisi yllättyä siitä, jos joku rukoilee ikivanha huoltokirja kädessään, että taivaallinen autokorjaamo hinaisi auton pois.
So the transhumanist says, “Let us use this technology to cure aging.” And the reporter thinks, How strange! He must have been born with an unusual technology-loving disposition. Or, How strange! He must have an unusual horror of aging! -- This is an unnecessarily burdensome explanation for why someone would advocate healing the sick by any means available, including advanced technology.
HRP-3 Promet Mk-II - Työläisrobotti, suunniteltu mechan näköiseksi.
Avatar Machine - Itsensä ohjaamista kolmannessa persoonassa. Ei tämä vielä selän takana vapaasti leijuva kamera ole, mutta jotain sentään.
Meet the first resident of Dubai's palm-shaped man-made island
Scientist Calls Mars a Terraforming Target for the 21st Century
Create a back-up copy of your immune system - Lifeforce Immune System Bank
The firm collects 480-millilitre samples of blood from healthy individuals, extracts the white blood cells and stores them as an insurance policy against future disease. The service comes at a price, though: around $800 for taking the initial sample then $25 per month for storing the cells at -196 °C. "That sample would have the complete repertoire of all your white blood cells," says Del DelaRonde, co-founder of Lifeforce in Newport, UK.
The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer
It may seem strange that a wage-working loot farmer would still care about the freedom to play. But it is not half as strange as the scene that unfolded one evening at 9 o’clock in the Internet cafe on the ground floor of the building where Donghua has its offices. Scattered around the stifling, dim wang ba, 10 power levelers just off the day shift were merrily gaming away. Not all of them were playing World of Warcraft. A big, silent lug named Mao sat mesmerized by a very pink-and-purple Japanese schoolgirls’ game, in which doe-eyed characters square off in dancing contests with other online players. But the rest had chosen, to a man, to log into their personal World of Warcraft accounts and spend these precious free hours right back where they had spent every other hour of the day: in Azeroth.
Ajattelen aina välillä näin metaforisesti, että olemme transhumanististen teknologioiden kanssa siinä pelivaiheessa, että päästäkseen seuraavalle tasolle täytyy keräillä pisteitä ja kultaa tappamalla samoja pikkumonstereita päivästä toiseen.
Who Loves Designer Vaginas?
What, furthermore, are you gonna do about human knowledge? About how science insists on marching hell-bent forward with such astonishing speed and with such incredible dexterity toward some glorious otherworldly nightmare dreamscape of anima manipulation, a land where we can effortlessly rescramble our genetic code and reconfigure this none-too-solid flesh as we "play God" in so many bewildering ways the Christian right can't even figure out where to aim its hollow, horrified indignation?
ViewPoint - Taustapeili silmälaseihin.
Brain Activity Controls Toy Train
Peilikosketussynesteetikot tuntevat näkemänsä kosketukset - Tästä selitystä sille miksi toiset eläytyvät kuulemaansa musiikkiin tai näkemäänsä elokuvaan voimakkaammin kuin toiset. Ja kuinkahan tämän voisi käynnistää keinotekoisesti ja tehostaa sitä? Sopiva annos peilikosketussynestesiaa aiheuttavaa kaasua teatteriin ja elokuvan sänkykohtaukset alkavat tuntua omalla iholla.
It's hard for others to imagine what it must be like to feel every touch seen — in the subway, in a horror film, at a dance. It's equally baffling for the synaesthetes to imagine not feeling it. "I've never been able to understand how people can enjoy looking at bloodthirsty films, or laugh at the painful misfortunes of others," said one of Ward's subjects.
Puiden korkeuden säätöä geenimuuntelulla
Other than reduced size, there appeared to be striking variation in foliage color and leaf shape, some of which might have significant ornamental value. Root development also appeared to be very strong, which might provide increased stress tolerance and have value where extensive root development is needed, such as in bioremediation of polluted soils or in very windy, limited soil moisture situations.
Polynap MP3 Soundtrack - Jos joku haluaa edelleen kokeilla.
Photosynth & Seadragon - ZUI-video.
Second Earth
The worlds of the Metaverse will be much more diverse but still bridgeable, Rolston predicts. "Portions of this 3-D Internet will be anchored to the real planet and will involve real-world activities, and others will not be," he says. "People will move freely between representations of the real world and representations of synthetic fantasy worlds, and feel equally comfortable in both."
The CarveWright Woodworking System - Puunkaiverrusprintteri.
Humans Will Justify Almost Anything
What if you make a choice that is really bad and you can't hide from it? What is the mind's strategy for dealing with a colossal mistake? Well, as Tavris and Aronson note, public figures from Henry Kissinger to Ronald Reagan to Scooter Libby and Alberto Gonzales have opted for a simple phrase that deflects all responsibility: mistakes were made. But just as commonly, people who don't want to own up to a mistake become even more entrenched in their belief once it is proven wrong. They throw good money after bad in the market, grab for straws in a dying relationship or send yet more troops to fight a misbegotten war.
Bones could allow data swaps via handshake
The researchers suggest applications such as a vibrator in a wrist receiver/transmitter that could tell an implant placed near a bone to release a drug dose, with the implant then sending back data from its sensors. Similarly, tooth clacks or finger clicks could be interpreted by a receiver to activate, say, functions in a phone.
Transhumanism as Simplified Humanism
Transhumanism is simpler - requires fewer bits to specify - because it has no special cases. If you believe professional bioethicists (people who get paid to explain ethical judgments) then the rule “Life is good, death is bad; health is good, sickness is bad” holds only until some critical age, and then flips polarity. Why should it flip? Why not just keep on with life-is-good? It would seem that it is good to save a six-year-old girl, but bad to extend the life and health of a 150-year-old. Then at what exact age does the term in the utility function go from positive to negative? Why? As far as a transhumanist is concerned, if you see someone in danger of dying, you should save them; if you can improve someone’s health, you should. There, you’re done. No special cases. You don’t have to ask anyone’s age.
Prometeus - Prosumer-video.
Robot to act as MC at SKorean wedding - Robotit vievät papeilta työt.
Power Pedal - Robottijalat $167,000
Kodak saattaa tehdä salamavaloista historiaa ja saksalaiset saattavat tehdä miniprojektorien tärinästä historiaa. Salamavalon ja tärähdyksen pilaamista kuvista on tultava loppu. Kyllä kameran pitäisi jo oppia itse ottamaan kunnon kuvia.
Hello, from the car in front - P2P-autoilua. Näen jo mielessäni jäätelöautoja muistuttavia piraattipakettiautoja, jotka kiertelevät kesäfestareilla jakaen ilmaiseksi musiikkia ja muuta kulttuuria telttaväelle. Siinä olisi hyvä kesätyö.
"In some applications a car just needs internet content, say a local map or picture. Then, the car can get the data secondhand from another car that was earlier connected to the internet and happened to have downloaded that map or picture," says Professor Mario Gerla, who heads the UCLA Network Research Lab.
Suomalaiset saavat eniten maksettuja lomapäiviä.
Spartan DX Personal DNA Analyzer - Hinta $14,995
Snitchtown - Cory Doctorow
I once asked a Japanese friend to explain why so many people on the Tokyo subway wore surgical masks. Are they extreme germophobes? Conscientious folks getting over a cold? Oh, yes, he said, yes, of course, but that's only the rubric. The real reason to wear the mask is to spare others the discomfort of seeing your facial expression, to make your face into a disengaged, unreadable blank--to spare others the discomfort of firing up their mirror neurons in order to model your mood based on your outward expression. To make it possible to see without seeing.
P'gasus - Porchen pyörätuoli.
Polymer, heal thyself - Itsekorjaavaa materiaalia.
Competition, loss of selfishness mark shift to supersociety
The second piece of the model takes into account that “as the colonial organization of one group rises, there is a coincident rise in discrimination against members of other societies of the same species.” Hölldobler notes that the competition between societies soon becomes a major force reinforcing the evolutionary process: “In this way the society or insect colony becomes the extended phenotype of the collective genome of the society.”
A poker-playing computer is just the start of advanced AI - Kumpi voittaa, ihmis-pro vai Polaris?
Chromallocytes - Robert Freitasin viiden vuoden työn tuloksena syntyi ensimmäinen tekninen kuvaus soluja korjaavasta nanorobotista. Aiemmin: respirocytes, keinotekoiset punasolut ja microbivores, keinotekoiset syöjäsolut bakteereita ja viruksia vastaan.
David Brin Predicts the Future
You find very little interest in the modernist agenda of confident problem solving. Robert Heinlein predicted this, but I didn’t. I also expected a few technologies that never came. For example, lie detection based on involuntary eye movements, a method that ought to work even during a televised interview or press conference. A potential nightmare for deceitful politicians!
To Remake the World
This is the first time in history that a large social movement is not bound together by an “ism.” What binds it together is ideas, not ideologies. This unnamed movement’s big contribution is the absence of one big idea; in its stead it offers thousands of practical and useful ideas. In place of isms are processes, concerns, and compassion. The movement demonstrates a pliable, resonant, and generous side of humanity.
A wider range of sounds for the deaf
The possible auditory nerve implants likely would be suitable for the same people who are candidates today for cochlear implants: the profoundly deaf, who can’t hear at all, and the severely deaf, whose hearing ability is greatly reduced. Also, the animal studies suggest that implantation of the devices has little impact on normal hearing, offering the possibility of restoring sensitivity to high frequencies while preserving remaining low-frequency hearing.
Italians build biotech vagina - Korostakaamme, että asialla olivat italialaiset.
Osallistun Alarin (edellisen merkinnän kommentissa) ideoimaan SexPrize-kilpailuun täysin uudenlaisen sukupuolielimen keksimiseksi tällä idealla: aivot ovat luonnollisesti kaunein ja eroottisin osa ihmisestä, joten uudenlaisen sukupuolielimen täytyy muistuttaa aivoja. Aivot muistuttavat kasaa lonkeroita, joten luonnollisesti tämä aivoelin "avautuu" kiihottuneessa tilassa muistuttamaan hieman Cthulhun lonkeropartaa. Kun aivolonkerot syleilevät toisiaan, ne kokevat ekstaattista älyllistä nautintoa ollessaan asioista samaa mieltä. Mitä enemmän samaa mieltä on, sitä enemmän nautintoa kokee, joten kannattaa valita partneri, joka on mahdollisimman samaa mieltä asioista. Tästä tietysti seuraa myös se, että itsensä pölyttäminen on kaikkein nautinnollisinta ja peili on paras eroottinen elokuva. Mutta koska samaa mieltä olemisen nautinnollisuudella on niin suuri valintapaine, lopulta kaikki ihmiset yrittävät olla mahdollisimman samaa mieltä kaikesta ja poikkeavat mielipiteet muuttuvat ehkä seksuaaliseksi häirinnäksi.
(Syön palkintojäätelön, mutta viiden euron rahapalkinnon voi lahjoittaa Singularity Institutelle.)
A Terrible Thing to Waste - Aspergerin syndroomasta kärsivän matikkanero William Cottrellin ei anneta opiskella vankilassa, koska häntä pidetään vaarallisena ekoterroristina.
Tylsyys muodostuu siitä, kun aivot yhdistävät tapahtumat toistuvaksi kuvioksi, joka ei vaikuta kiinnostavalta. Muuttamalla kuviota hieman joka kerta aivot ainakin välttävät tylsyyttä - jos teet samoja asioita päivittäin, luultavasti lisäät niihin aina jotain uutta (otat kiinni kaukosäätimestä hieman eri tavoin, painat nappia eri sormella).
Kuinka päästä eroon kiusaajasta? Kiusaaja saa mielihyvää siitä, että näkee kasvoillasi kerta toisensa jälkeen hetkellisen ärsyyntymisreaktion. Sopiva tapa reagoida on jotenkin toisin kuin ärtymyksellä tai ylireagoida välittömästi. Älä anna kiusaajalle pieniä ärsyyntyneitä ilmeitä palkkioksi.
Reactance - Miksi ihmiset pistävät vastaan, kun heitä yritetään neuvoa tai auttaa? Koska tunnereaktio on, että auttaja yrittää viedä heidän henkilökohtaista vapauttaan ja sitä vastaan kapinoidaan jatkamalla hölmöä käytöstä. Tupakoija puhaltaa savua naamalle, kun häntä pyytää olemaan polttamatta seurassa. Täytyy käyttää käänteistä psykologiaa: Älä lopeta polttamista, olet tosi cool kun poltat. Syö tästä tuplajuustohampurilainen, lihavat ihmiset ovat seksikkäitä. Saastuttakaa luontoa kuin tosimiehet, siivoaminen on likaista ja alentavaa puuhaa.
Mother Earth is Not an Ashtray
Imagine being a police officer and chemically dependent upon nicotine yourself, working with scores of smoking officers who daily violate criminal litter laws, or living with nicotine dependent family members who litter butts themselves. Who would you cite or arrest first? The entire world turns its collective head while mother earth serves as one big ashtray for over 700 billion new littered butts each year.
A Step Toward a Living, Learning Memory Chip
Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel have demonstrated that neurons cultured outside the brain can be imprinted with multiple rudimentary memories that persist for days without interfering with or wiping out others.
WiTricity
Realizing their recent theoretical prediction, they were able to light a 60W light bulb from a power source seven feet (more than two meters) away; there was no physical connection between the source and the appliance. The MIT team refers to its concept as “WiTricity” (as in wireless electricity). -- WiTricity is rooted in such well-known laws of physics that it makes one wonder why no one thought of it before. “In the past, there was no great demand for such a system, so people did not have a strong motivation to look into it,” points out Joannopoulos, adding, “Over the past several years, portable electronic devices, such as laptops, cell phones, iPods and even household robots have become widespread, all of which require batteries that need to be recharged often.”
Surfing the Web with nothing but brainwaves
"We already know we can trigger neurons mechanically," he says. "You can interact directly with the brain without implanted electrodes. Then the next step is being able to think something and have it happen: Flying a plane, driving a car, operating household machinery." -- Controlling devices with the mind is just the beginning. Next, Wolf believes, is what he calls "network-enabled telepathy" - instant thought transfer. In other words, your thoughts will flow from your brain over the network right into someone else's brain. If you think instant messaging is addictive, just wait for instant thinking.
Super fruit fly may lead to healthier humans
“Essentially, we developed a way to do PCR on proteins,” Roberts said.
Researchers reprogram normal tissue cells into embryonic stem cells
The implications for disease treatment could be staggering. Reprogramming adult stem cells into embryonic stem cells could generate a potentially limitless source of immune-compatible cells for tissue engineering and transplantation medicine.
Paper Four
“We combine paper with printed graphic codes and electronically conductive ink that is engineered to be sensitive to pressure. Then digital information is embedded in the paper, and when it is touched, the information comes out via printed speakers,” says Mikael Gulliksson, project leader for media technology in the comprehensive research project.
Seikkailijapariskunta Tom ja Tina Sjogren ilmoittavat matkustavansa Marsiin vuonna 2014.
So what's it like having magnetic vision? - 11 ihmistä kertoo päivittäisestä elämästään magneettiaistin kanssa.
Common shop dialogue: unenhanced individual: "Hey, what the hell is thing I pulled off that old assembly line?" enhanced individual: "I don't know, but its got magnets inside the case here, here and here, I'm guessing the two along that guide rod are for positional sensing, and the one over here is probably a transformer."
Going boldly into humanity’s future - Hieman juttua menneistä Transvisioneista sekä tämän vuoden julkkiskonferenssista, johon on Shatnerin, Kurzweilin ja de Greyn lisäksi tulossa myös ainakin Ed Begley Jr. ja Arianna Huffington.
Scientists Move Closer to Turning Skin Cells Into Tissues
Kryoniikkarintamaltakin kuuluu iloisia rahoitusuutisia.
An anonymous donor has funded a multimillion-dollar grant proposal by Greg Fahy to work toward successful reversible suspended animation. The 3-year project, staffed with half a dozen scientists in a new facility, will extend over 3 phases: Phase 1 will identify an optimal method for vitrifying the body from a physical point of view in rabbits. Phase 2 will verify and extend Phase 1 results in larger mammals and possibly human cadavers donated for non-cryonics medical research. Phase 3 will work toward true suspended animation (biologically reversible whole body vitrification).
Into the Fold - Origamien hyötykäyttöä.
“Some of us see eating as something we get to do, a privilege and source of joy,” Glassner writes. “Others view eating as something they have to do.”
Prospects for extending healthy life - a lot - Aubrey de Greyn Google Talk.
6 Billion Bits of Data About Me, Me, Me!
And the curiosity is unlikely to be restricted to our own genetic code. A generation of personally motivated amateur geneticists may seek out others who have similar traits and similar quirks in their genetic code, hoping to deduce a connection.
... ja jos geneettisiä kaimoja ei löydy, täytyy tehdä itsestään geneettinen kaima.
Tobacco's radiation dose far higher than leaves at Chernobyl
CB2 - Child-Robot with Biometric Body - Lapsirobotti, tietysti Japanista. Toinen video. Kowai.
The Underwater Sculpture Gallery
Fizzy Fruit - Hiilihapotettuja hedelmiä.
Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time - Ben Goertzel kävi puhumassa Googlessa, video sieltä. Blogissaan hän kertoo myös jutelleensa Peter Norvigin kanssa huhuista, että Google suunnittelisi salaa vahvaa tekoälyä.
"There has been some talk about whether Google has a top-secret project aimed at building a thinking machine. Well, I'll tell you what happened. Larry Page came to me and said 'Peter, I've been hearing a lot about this Strong AI stuff. Shouldn't we be doing something in that direction?' So I said, okay. I went back to my desk and logged into our project management software. I had to write some scripts to modify it because it didn't go far enough into the future. But I modified it so that I could put, 'Human-level intelligence' on the row of the planning spreadsheet corresponding to the year 2030. And, that wasn't up there an hour before someone else added another item to the spreadsheet, time-stamped 90 days after that: 'Human-level intelligence: Macintosh port'"
Tässä myös toinen tuore puhevideo, jonka Goertzel piti Uplift Academyn Good Ancestors Principle workshopissa.
New nanoglue shrinks chips and sticks like Spiderman
Google Zooms In Too Close for Some - Google Maps Street View - Immersive Media Telemmersion - Seuraavaksi tämä täytyy yhdistää Gloggeriin, jolloin jokainen gloggaaja muodostaa oman 360-asteisen kuvahistoriansa. Jos haluaa nähdä ketkä ihmiset kulkivat perässä hetki sitten, voi kelata nauhoitetta taaksepäin ja elää kävelylenkin uusintana taakseen ja sivuilleen katsellen.
Nikon 360 Degree Camera Concept
Computers outperform humans at recognizing faces in recent tests - Jos ei muista kaikkien ohittamiensa ihmisten kasvoja, tietokone kyllä muistaa.
Sci-fi writers join war on terror
The 9/11 Commission called the 2001 terrorist attacks a result of the government's "failure of imagination." For this group, Walker says, there's no such thing as an "unthinkable scenario."
Can’t Beat ‘Em? Culture Them: Computing with Meat