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Tag Archives: Longevity
Lifeboat, longevity, old bacteria
A reply to a comment by Peter to a post in Lifeboat Foundation facebook page linking to Scientists pull living microbes, possibly 100 million years old, from beneath the sea [ 18/12/20 Peter stated “I don’t see how this pertains … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, cooperation, Lifeboat, Longevity, understanding
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Biden – climate science over lunar exploration
Lifeboat Foundation link to SpaceNews report that Biden administration expected to emphasize climate science over lunar exploration at NASA. [ 13/11/20 ] If anyone is really serious about managing the earth’s climate over the long term, then getting manufacturing technology … Continue reading
Posted in Longevity, Our Future, Technology, understanding
Tagged Climate change, Longevity, risk mitigation, understanding
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Spinoff – Vesuvius and other risks
Comment to Spinoff on Vesuvius article [ 11/9/20 ] The Vesuvius-Pompeii article does not just apply to Auckland, it applies to most of the North Island. Last time Taupo erupted (which was more recently than Vesuvius), it essentially sterilised most … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, cooperation, Longevity, Responsibility, risk mitigation, understanding
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Why longevity?
[ 9/9/20 Lifeboat Foundation Facebook Page – Eric Asked “Why do you want an unlimited lifespan?”] Having a personal stake in long term security seems to be the easiest way to ensure long term viability of complex systems. I already … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, future, Longevity, risk mitigation
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Complexity and risk reduction
[ 9/9/20 comment to Eric Klein on Lifeboat Foundation facebook page] Let me be explicit in what I was pointing to with that attempt at humour (sometimes autistic spectrum geeks don’t do humour well). Trying to stay out of the … Continue reading
Posted in Our Future, understanding
Tagged complexity, future, Longevity, risk mitigation
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Quora – Is extreme human life extension possible?
Is extreme human life extension possible? [ 20/8/20 ] Clearly yes – and it is a very difficult set of problems. Why clearly yes? Because it seems beyond reasonable doubt that all cells alive today came from a single cell … Continue reading
Quora – Can everyone agree, it is the super rich versus everyone else?
Can everyone agree, it is the super rich versus everyone else? [ 18/8/20 ] No. It is cooperate or perish. We either wake up to the mathematical and logical reality that all new levels of complexity require new levels of … Continue reading
Posted in economics, Ideas, Longevity, Nature, Our Future, Philosophy, Politics, Technology, understanding
Tagged Abundance, complexity, cooperation, freedom, future, Longevity, Philosophy, Politics, Responsibility, risk mitigation, technology, understanding, values
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Quora – Will global warming, automation, wealth inequality, in the future lead to a dystopian Authoritarian populist Eco-fascism/eco-socialism and or even societal collapse or will it all instead lead to a sustainable post-growth, Post -capitalist world?
Will global warming, automation, wealth inequality, in the future lead to a dystopian Authoritarian populist Eco-fascism/eco-socialism and or even societal collapse or will it all instead lead to a sustainable post-growth, Post -capitalist world? [ 1/8/20 ] In so far … Continue reading
Posted in economics, Ideas, Longevity, Nature, Our Future, Philosophy, Politics, Technology, understanding
Tagged Communication, complexity, cooperation, Economics, Ethics, freedom, future, Longevity, Politics, risk mitigation, technology, uncertainty, understanding, values
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Is a perfect society possible or even desirable?
Is a perfect society possible or even desirable? [ 25/7/20 ] If you mean something static – then no. If you mean something that respects individual sapient life, and the liberty of all such sapient entities, and provides a cooperative … Continue reading
Posted in Our Future, Philosophy, Politics, understanding
Tagged Abundance, Communication, complexity, future, Longevity, Morality, Philosophy, Politics, technology, understanding
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Will we ever crack the biological code and achieve immortality?
Will we ever crack the biological code and achieve immortality? [ 20/6/20 ] It seems clear to me that the answer is yes, and it is a very complex suite of issues that need to be mitigated to do so. … Continue reading
