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You can see how deep-rooted is the wish of some to just ignore the problem of ageing when they say that rejuvenation won’t happen in time for them, and that there’s thus no reason they should concern themselves with the whole issue. This article on rebuts this meta-objection and discusses its origins.
People’s last line of defence to keep ignoring the problem of ageing and rejuvenation is often the meta-objection ‘it won’t happen in my lifetime’. Let’s have a look at what’s wrong with this reasoning, and why some people think this way.
#aging #crowdfundthecure
May 8, 2017
When blockchains run companies, here’s what your job will look like
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: bitcoin, robotics/AI
–In a DAO, a blockchain-based organization, you don’t have a boss or a CEO. What you have is a dynamic set of working relationships continuously and dynamically self-organized around outcomes and projects.
If you’re tired of going to unproductive meetings, commuting in to work just to put in face time, or following commands from a boss you don’t have much confidence in, you may be the right kind of employee for a new type of work environment called a DAO, or Decentralized Autonomous Organization.
We’re in the early stages of seeing these futuristic types of companies roll out already. These early players have run into some missteps, but that’s to be expected. What’s important in the concept of a DAO is the D: “decentralized.”
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May 7, 2017
NASA is offering a $15,000 prize if you can speed up its simulation code
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: computing, transportation
NASA just announced several bounties to improve its FUN3D software, which is used to simulate fluid dynamics. The system is used internally at NASA, as well as by companies like Boeing and Lockheed, to develop and optimize new vehicles and engines.
The FUN3D project was started back in the 1980s, and it has been in active development for decades, but NASA’s looking for help to optimize the code. It’s offering $15,000 and $10,000 prizes to the top two contributors of code optimizations, and is also offering another bounty for more general optimization suggestions.
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May 7, 2017
This New Instrument Will Be Able to Locate Alien Worlds from the Ground
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: alien life
A team of astronomers is set to build a new exoplanet hunter. In theory, this instrument could lead to finding the first truly habitable world beyond Earth.
NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have selected a team of astronomers to build their new exoplanet hunter. In order to get the best minds on the job, the scientists were selected after holding a national competition. The resulting team will be led by Penn State University assistant professor Suvrath Mahadevan.
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May 7, 2017
Capitalism 2.0: the economy of the future will be powered by neural lace
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, economics, robotics/AI, transhumanism
My new article at Wired UK: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/basic-economy-neural-prosthetics #Future #BasicIncome
But it’ll take more than just a mind tapped into the cloud to be widely competitive in the overall job market. Augmented limbs, bionic organs, and widespread use of exoskeleton technology will be needed to compete against robotic strength.
For years I’ve been supportive of a basic income, which would provide a monthly income for the poor – mostly because I saw it as the only logical way to keep people fed and housed, while still allowing for technological and economic evolution. Now, with neural prosthetics and upgraded bodies, I see the future may, instead, be full of capitalistic enterprise, fuelled by transhumanist technologies that allow us to more closely resemble the machines.
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May 7, 2017
Elon Musk: The future we’re building — and boring
Posted by Alexandros El in categories: Elon Musk, space travel, sustainability
May 7, 2017
Unmanned U.S. Air Force space plane lands after secret, two-year mission
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: military, robotics/AI, space travel
By Irene Klotz
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) — The U.S. military’s experimental X-37B space plane landed on Sunday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completing a classified mission that lasted nearly two years, the Air Force said.
The unmanned X-37B, which resembles a miniature space shuttle, touched down at 7:47 a.m. EDT (1147 GMT) on a runway formerly used for landings of the now-mothballed space shuttles, the Air Force said in an email.
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May 7, 2017
We are currently organizing our Longevity Panel with Alexandra Stolzing, Aubrey de Grey and a number of other guests
Posted by Steve Hill in category: life extension
The major mouse testing pogram is organizing a special 1.5 hour long longevity panel with Dr. Alexandra Stolzing, Dr. Aubrey de Grey and other guests in early June. This was one of the rewards for their campaign on Lifespan.io last year.
They are asking the community to suggest questions to ask Dr. Stolzing and Dr. de Grey so head on over there if you would like to ask them something and maybe it will make the show. The show will be broadcast live on Facebook and the dates will be announced shortly.
We hope to lifestream the science panel to facebook in June and will confirm the time and date shortly.
May 7, 2017
How to be a lawyer without going to law school
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: education, law
Nearly all those who await results have followed the traditional route to lawyerdom: They’ve toiled through three years of rigorous study at an American Bar Association-approved law school. They’ve taken $5,000+ bar exam prep courses. They’ve spent summers fetching coffee for district attorneys and corporate lawyers.
A select few, however, have completely bypassed these steps. Several U.S. states offer a little-known alternative path to the bar exam room: “reading the law” — or serving as an apprentice in the office of a practicing attorney or judge.
Last year, out of 83,963 bar exam takers, only 60 were apprentices. A mere 17 succeeded in passing the bar exam and becoming eligible to practice law. It is a long, difficult road, requiring four years of mentorship and thousands of hours of self-led work, but when completed, it can save a prospective lawyer hundreds of thousands of dollars in law school debt.
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