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It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the keys of the board that thoughts aquire speed. The tendons acquire pain. The pain becomes a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
I joined something cool
Tuesday March 28 2006, @12:35PM
Jeff "Hemos"
Bates, cofounder of Slashdot:
News for Nerds, Stuff that matters and of Everything2, Vice President of
Editorial Operations at OSTG, and Executive Editor of Slashdot has
joined the Lifeboat Foundation
Scientific Advisory Board. He joins luminaries nearly as important as
him such as Frank
Wilczek, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, and Sir Clive W.J. Granger,
winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics.
The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization,
dedicated to ensuring that humanity adopts the powerful technologies of
genetics, nanotechnology,
and robotics safely
as we move towards the
Singularity. This humanitarian organization is pursuing all possible
options, including relinquishment when feasible (they are against the
U.S. government
posting the recipe for the 1918 flu virus on the internet), and
helping accelerate the development of defensive technologies including
anti-biological virus
technology,
active nanotechnological shields, and self-sustaining space colonies in case the other
defensive strategies fail.
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Very cool! (Score:1)
The focus seems to be on the safety of new technologies, which is definately a good thing.
I'll be following the project! Thanks for letting us know about it.
enticing idea (Score:1)
However, if they allow substantial participation in the policy discussions without requiring hefty cash infusions (re: the 'Buzz Aldrin Council' at the national space society), I might just have to participate despite the potentially unsavory characters referenced above.
Yeah (Score:2)