UpToke Releases Their First Vaporizer
If you happen to smoke, maybe you should “quit” by getting a vaporizer. The health benefits of not inhaling smoke are pretty dramatic. $300 pre-orders UpToke’s new Spyre vaporizer which is coming out in…
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Altmetric pilots help Elsevier authors understand the impact of their articles
The colorful donut indicating impact in news and social media is now featured on various journal homepages and ScienceDirect Elsevier bungles their pledge to make journals horrible in every way; accidently debuts clear and…
Methuselah Foundation Announces $1 Million “New Organ Liver Prize”
“The New Organ Liver Prize will award $1,000,000 to the first team that creates a bioengineered replacement for the native liver of a large mammal, enabling it to recover in the absence of native function and survive…
Sleep research is always terrible
Reporters don’t seem to understand that sleep research is even worse than nutrition research. When the Atlantic published a new article claiming that 9-5 work was bad for creatives, I knew the research “backing…
Will Advanced AI Be Our Final Invention?
My review of “Our Final Invention” on Singularity Hub
Life possible in the early Universe
15 million years after the big bang, the entire universe should have been a “habitable zone”. This isn’t a fanciful hypothesis, so much as a straightforward numerical prediction of the standard model of physics. This…
Fecal transplant pills outperform antibotics
Imagine you’re a drug developer. Your company makes the best antibiotics in the world. Now further imagine that you wake up one day and find out you’re in the world where your competitors can…
If the World was “Gluten-Free”, would Wheat-Growing Nations be Economically Crippled?
What’s the logical fallacy where you argue for a false conclusion that wouldn’t even follow from your premises if your unrelated evidence happened to be true (but isn’t) and your methodology wouldn’t distinguished truth…
Transcension Hypothesis: An Intriguing Answer to the Fermi Paradox?
Do life bearing planets reliably miniaturize themselves down into black holes? This civilization entrapping blunder appears to be a powerful attractor and perhaps the default trajectory for advanced societies. Hopefully Earth doesn’t follow suit and…
Here Is Today
I wonder if this website reliably puts people in “far mode” thinking patterns? See on hereistoday.com
What got you interested in artificial intelligence and math?
Excerpt from an interview I did with Adam Ford on why I care about math and AI. See on www.youtube.com
2013 Winter Matching Challenge – Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Thanks to Peter Thiel, every donation made to MIRI between now and January 15th, 2014 will be matched dollar-for-dollar! Also, gifts from “new large donors” will be matched 3x! Check out what MIRI has accomplished…
Intermediate Temperature Storage for Fracture Reduction in Cryonics
While reviewing the scientific justification for storing cryonics patients at liquid nitrogen temperatures (-196 C), it occurred to me that being 73 C under the glass transition temperature of vitrification solution (-123 C) pretty…
Study delivers protein across blood-brain barrier to degrade Alzheimer’s plaques
Biologists substantially degraded Alzheimer’s plaques in mice brains and human brain tissue by sending a fused protein across the blood-brain barrier. Getting drugs across the blood-brain barrier is normally really hard. And curing Alzheimer’s…
Do computer simulations support the Argument from Disagreement?
“According to the Argument from Disagreement (AD) widespread and persistent disagreement on ethical issues indicates that our moral opinions are not influenced by moral facts, either because there are no such facts or because…
Tomorrow’s world: A guide to the next 150 years
Explore our graphical guide to the advances of the future, from 2013 to 2150. I sometimes point my friends to this diagram when I want to show them how hard forecasting the future is……
PostHuman: An Introduction to Transhumanism
To my friends who haven’t heard of “Transhumanism”: What do you think of this video? See on www.youtube.com
To create a super-intelligent machine, start with an equation
Intelligence is a very difficult concept and, until recently, no one has succeeded in giving it a satisfactory formal definition. A short primer on Marcus Hutter’s AIXI formalism for universal intelligence. This might be…
What If Sugar Doesn’t Cause Diabetes?
It has been known for decades that sugar consumption doesn’t correlate with the onset of type 2 diabetes later in life (after controlling for BMI). So anyone proposing dietary theories where metabolic syndrome is…
How to eat whatever you want without working out
Interesting self-discovery: So I got a Fitbit and was confused by how much it reported I was continuously walking. I actually thought it was broken for 2 months, until I finally figured out what was going on. It turns…
