Peter

KrioRus has managed to cryopreserve 50 humans, 8 dogs, 7 cats …

Now this is some false advertising, they haven’t managed to revive any of those animals so you cannot really call them cryptopreserved yet.
It’s possible that process that they are using causes some irreversible damage and can be called preservation only in same sense as mummification is.

Just like Marcos called it in his comment on “Why treat gene editing differently in two types of human cells?” article it’s a Pandora box.
However I don’t think it’s possible to not open it just as it wasn’t possible not to create atomic bomb once all knowledge required for it was gathered.
Facing new dangers is just dark side of progress and we…[Read more]

You don’t have to worry Marcos, fact that intelligence cannot be tweaked
by genetic modification alone hardly means that it cannot be done at all.
To “max out” such complex trait will have to mix genetics, epigenetics,
embrionic science and correct upbringing.

As for egoistical monkey thinking, I believe that people simply
don’t like to feel…[Read more]

Main issue in modern word is not access to information but overflow of it.
Strength of peer reviewed literature is that all articles in it are heavily
scrutinized so you can trust their content.
On open data market you must be much more careful and in case of
research this can even mean that you will have to reproduce experiment to
make sure…[Read more]

I don’t want to be rude but Dr Danaher basically wastes his time on non-issue.
There are two problems with what he describes.

First there won’t be a problem with unfulfilled need of work because even
if you can live with full automation you hardly will be forced to.
People who have resources can move to some sort of Amish like colonies
where…[Read more]

I’m not optimistic because I think our problems are small.
I’m optimistic because I think our capacity to deal with problems is great.

This is beautiful thing to say and I agree in 100%.

Also I kinda imagine that 10,000 years in the future you will have articles with headlines like :
“Great clock reaches its final chord. Ancient Terrans…[Read more]

@ Marcos
As it seems that article author is not responding to this allow me
to address first issue that you have risen.

In posted abstract complexity was defined as

amount of environmental information that they (organisms) can incorporate into their genomes

In this case when looking from point of individual, like you desired in
your…[Read more]

Our first defense against such scenario would be amount of noise
data in global network.
Any sentient AI would go bonkers after going through fanfiction.net archive.
Just imagine the headlines: “Humanity saved by Star Trek smut” 🙂

I would like to point out two things.

First in evolutionary algorithms population usually have very little
influence on environment if any at all. While in nature such influence is
very strong even in simple cases.
Most extreme example of this are of course humans as high life standard in
first world countries basically “disabled” natural…[Read more]

I must disagree with you, or maybe agree with Kurzweil, on this topic.
Having a healthy dose of skepticism towards new ideas is actually a good thing.
Neither stories about flying out uteri stopped development of trains nor
popularity of opinion that Newtonian physics described whole reality stopped Einstein.

However blind trust in fruits…[Read more]