a moronic book for soccer moms, but still, the accelerando meme is taking hold.
Tag: singularity
1000 Chinese Einsteins Every Year
create 1B embryos each year. The genetic intellectual potential of all these embryos is checked. Those in the top 10000 are implanted into women. This means that each year 1000 people with the scientific ability of Einstein will be born.
AI, nanotech and the future of the human species
Jurvetson shares the view espoused by Ray Kurzweil that the next 20 years of technological progress will be equivalent to the entire 20th century, and will help fuel great progress in advanced AI. In our podcast conversation, we discuss designed and evolutionary approaches to developing smart AI as well as the possible cultural impact of machine intelligences and genetic enhancements the surpass human capabilities. In addition, Jurvetson offers his views on how nanotechnology, molecular electronics and quantum computing carry on Moore’s Law and could bring about profound, life-altering changes in the next few decades.
i am having cognitive dissonance as gadget droolers and forever behind the adoption curve rags like ziff davis discuss the singularity. next: home and garden magazine.
Higher Games
Why isn’t it just as nice–or nicer–to think that we human beings might succeed in designing and building brain children that are even more wonderful than our biologically begotten children?
The New Biology
The new biology is not biotech: it’s not genetic engineering, and it isn’t cloning either. Most biotech treats nature as if it worked like a machine. The new biology makes machines that work like living things.
1TB hard drive
another milestone. $350. compare: “The storage requirement for a video stream and 2 audio streams, plus GPS location, is only ~10TB per year – which will cost about $25 by 2017”. ie, you can now do a lifelog for $5k/y
Rainbows End
Dedication: To the Net-based cognitive tools that are changing our lives — Wikipedia, Google, and the others of their kind, now and in the future.
Singularity Is Near
The Singularity is Near mixes documentary interviews with a science-fiction story involving his robotic avatar Ramona’s transformation into an artificial general intelligence
Transhumanist Tech
everyone loves top 10 lists
Aubrey de Grey
Aubrey de Grey: 2018 was a fantastic year for rejuvenation biotechnology. The main thing that made it special was the explosive growth of the private-sector side of the field – the number of startup companies, the number of investors, and the scale of investment. 2 companies, AgeX Therapeutics and Unity Biotechnology, went public with 9-digit valuations, and a bunch of others are not far behind. Of course this has only been possible because of all the great progress that has been made in the actual science, but one can never predict when that slow, steady progress will reach “critical mass”.
2020-06-16: Towards the mainstream
within 3-5 years there will be a rapid shift in public expectation in longevity. The lab and clinical research will get to the point that experts will be willing to say radical longevity is achievable. Major media will then trumpet it. The public will then change their beliefs.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 