Jul 27, 2015
Free Will Does Not Exist — Should it be a Transhumanist Enhancement?
Posted by Sean Cusack in categories: neuroscience, transhumanism
Free Will Does Not Exist — Should it be a Transhumanist Enhancement?
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Let’s formulate the task of life extension slightly differently. Something like this…How can we extend sex appeal?
Gyms and beauty salons are in charge of this question now. There is some success, but it’s mostly superficial. Plastic surgery only masks, but doesn’t delay the processes of aging.
Expanding sex appeal is a complex task. Its aspects include both beauty and the activity of the brain. To be sexually attractive we have to be smart and fun. One cannot solve the problem of dementia with makeup.
Jul 27, 2015
Futurist Wants to Replace the Death Penalty with Behavioral Modification Brain Implants
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: law, neuroscience
This death penalty story continuing to get coverage. This article below is nice as it mentions another idea I wrote about, which is that of death row prisoners and the possibility of cryonics.
He also suggests putting violent criminals in the Matrix for the rest of their lives.
Jul 27, 2015
Super-elastic conducting fibers for artificial muscles, sensors, capacitors
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: electronics, nanotechnology
UT Dallas scientists have constructed novel fibers by wrapping sheets of tiny carbon nanotubes to form a sheath around a long rubber core. This illustration shows complex two-dimensional buckling, shown in yellow, of the carbon nanotube sheath/rubber-core fiber. The buckling results in a conductive fiber with super elasticity and novel electronic properties. (credit: UT Dallas Alan G. MacDiarmid Nanotech Institute)
An international research team based at The University of Texas at Dallas has made electrically conducting fibers that can be reversibly stretched to more than 14 times their initial length and whose electrical conductivity increases 200-fold when stretched.
Jul 27, 2015
How to save the planet: environmental conflicts in a new light — By Justin Farrell | Financial Times
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: environmental, science
One of the most symbolic and substantively important examples of environmental conflict is over Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone is the first national park in the world, and perhaps the most important natural treasure in the US. More recently it has become a site for bitter and long-lasting environmental conflict. And it has made me wonder how the scientific arguments around the issues sit with the emotional reactions inspired by the landscape and history.
Jul 27, 2015
Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking Join Call for Ban on Artificially Intelligent Weapons
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI
Trying to kill the robotics/AI industry.
“It will only be a matter of time until they appear on the black market and in the hands of terrorists”
Jul 27, 2015
Strange Bright Spots on Ceres Create Mini-Atmosphere on Dwarf Planet
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: space
The investigation into the dwarf planet Ceres‘ mysterious bright spots has taken an intriguing new twist. The famous bright spots at the bottom of Ceres’ Occator crater appear to be sublimating material into space, creating a localized atmosphere within the walls of the 57-mile-wide (92 kilometers) hole in the ground, new observations by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft suggest.
Jul 27, 2015
Here’s the only way to destroy a black hole
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: cosmology
Jul 27, 2015
Watch The First Soviet Science Fiction Film, Aelita: Queen Of Mars
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: space
Here’s something cool to watch: the first ever Soviet science fiction movie, Aelita: Queen of Mars, directed by Yakov Protozoan from 1924.
