Accelerating Future

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This is Stephen Hawking on the unexplained mystery of the universe he’d most like to know, space travel, the children’s book he wrote with his daughter, and on whether he is religious/spiritual. Sorry, the video is in Flash format and nothing else is available. You can download it here.

Simple questions, intelligent answers.

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1-hr video: Aubrey de Grey presents at the Bay Area transhumanist meetup on recent developments at the Methuselah Foundation. Filmed on February 6 — about three months ago.

What would you do if someone gave you millions of dollars to defeat aging? That is the question Aubrey de Grey has to answer, because for him it recently became reality.

Via Future Current.

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I was thinking about self-replication in SecondLife. I remember one incident that hit the news involved a self-replicating golden ring, Sonic-style. Wondering if there were any videos of self-replicating objects in SecondLife, I searched for “self-replication secondlife” on YouTube and found only this:

This is a test by a member of the SecondLife group Patriotic Nigras. Read the liner notes on the video for an interesting closer look at the thought process behind it.

Other videos on YouTube: Self-Replication in SecondLife, /b/lackout, Particle Test #1, so I herd you like griefing. Some of these are just particle spammers and not really self-replicators per se. I love 1:10 on the last one, because it actually shows the initial cube before it explodes into a cloud of Vegetas. By far, it seems that the most popular targets are the Lindens.

Here’s another one by Patriotic Nigras: “Luskwood: It’s Raining Lulz”. This is a griefer attack on a furry sim. An interesting look at what happens when a sim is saturated with noisy, self-replicating objects. Let me know if you find anything else.

I see all this as a preview of what will happen in the real world once hobbyists get their hands on synthetic life and self-replicating robotics.

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The “galloping” at the end is particularly remarkable.

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