Haukotus = aivojen tuuletin käynnistyy
We are meant to be here - Paul Daviesilta pari pätkää muistiin.
And the key point here is that the degree of error, which is inherent in the laws, depends on time. As the universe gets older, there are fewer errors because it's had longer to compute. If you go back to the first split second after the big bang, then the underlying errors in the laws of physics really would have been very large. So instead of thinking of the universe as beginning magically with a bang, and the laws of physics being imprinted magically on the universe with infinite precision right from the word go, we must instead think of the laws as being emergent with and inherent in the universe, starting out a little bit vague and fuzzy, and focusing down over time to the form that we see today.
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If future scientists are human beings, they may be stuck with the same problems that we have. The way we think, the way we like to analyze problems, the categories that we define -- like cause and effect, space-time and matter, meaning and purpose -- are really human categories that cannot be separated from our evolutionary heritage. We have to face up to the fact that there may be fundamental limitations just from the way our brains have been put together.
Our Biotech Future - Freeman Dyson
We are moving rapidly into the post-Darwinian era, when species other than our own will no longer exist, and the rules of Open Source sharing will be extended from the exchange of software to the exchange of genes. Then the evolution of life will once again be communal, as it was in the good old days before separate species and intellectual property were invented.
Sharing is Caring - Katsotaan mainosta vaihteeksi sillä silmällä, että jaossa ovat biologiset ominaisuudet. Jos minulla on pitkäikäisyys ja regeneraatio, kopioin ne sinulle.
A History Of Violence - Steve Pinker
A third theory, championed by Robert Wright, invokes the logic of non-zero-sum games: scenarios in which two agents can each come out ahead if they cooperate, such as trading goods, dividing up labor, or sharing the peace dividend that comes from laying down their arms. As people acquire know-how that they can share cheaply with others and develop technologies that allow them to spread their goods and ideas over larger territories at lower cost, their incentive to cooperate steadily increases, because other people become more valuable alive than dead.
Piratismi edistää maailmanrauhaa. Kannattaa pitää naapurisopua yllä, koska naapurilla on mielenkiintoista kulttuuria (ja geenejä) jaossa ja varmuuskopiot oman talon kamoista (ja geeneistä). Olisi hölmöä hyökätä varmuuskopioidensa kimppuun.
"We think what happened is that cats sort of domesticated themselves."
Derren Brown: Messiah - Taikuri kiertää tekemässä ihmeitä uskovaisille. Primitiiviset ihmiset luulevat messiaaksi jokaista, joka tietää enemmän tekniikasta.
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.
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.
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.
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.
]]>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.
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.
Prometeus - Prosumer-video.
Robot to act as MC at SKorean wedding - Robotit vievät papeilta työt.
Power Pedal - Robottijalat $167,000
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
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?
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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