Anyways Stross has convinced me to not care: in the same manner that space exploration, it will be a non participatory event for 99.99% of human population
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Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers, not fitness-maximizers.
Posted: 28/11/2010 in Brainy“Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers, not fitness-maximizers.”
Its the whole group the one which gets fitness-optimized, for diverse values of “adaptation”, “group” and particularly “fitness”, as the emergent property of environment interaction and change in the environment, the individuals, and the groups.
me da que no va a haber colonizacion del espacio
resumen de la novela accelerando de charles stross
diez-futuros-imperfectos-ciencia-ficcion
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some interesting subjects:
the green revolution
peak oil
exponentials, sigmoids, malthusian models, and malthusian catastrophes
exponential expanding: processing power /memory / bandwidth : limits and what you cant do with it
stagnating: quantum computers, algorythm resolution, hard ia results, fusion power
Technological waves and paradigm shifts
global warming
bioengineering; adn and proteine mapping/modeling and whi it is decades away from meaningfully impacting you.
Aging and expanding life expectancy: will you or will you not catch the wave tahat will let you live indefinitely
Information wants to be free and expensive at the same time: the intellectual property wars
Sociobiology, memetics, pnl, propaganda (PR, marketing and politics), sex, religion & warfare.
Big brother: how everyone is going to end up in Wikipedia, facebook, google, and a webcam will be in every corner and in your soup
memory cheap and available enough to stream your life to it
brain architecture and emuation.
brain uploading.
space travel and why it is done first by prestige and secondarily by scientific reasons but there will be no commercial or civil uses beyond the earth orbit.
Obsolete economic models and why theres currently no replacement
Social Models, Legal Systems: Past and Future
Geostrategics: game theory
Alternate power sources/transportation/storage: Political Implications
decentalization: computing: the cloud.
decentralizacion: fabrication: protoyping and cad printers/machines
sinergy & convergence: unintended consequences
geolocation everywhere: you will never be lost again
Humor, critica y seriedad: duando tus judias (poder) te van en que lo tuyo sea considerado serio y nunca jamas criticado (politica religion, intelectualidad)
fear and admiration: are they the only two modes of respect?
20 reglas basicas para formular correctamente el conocimiento.
1) no estoy seguro de si el propio nombre del link sigue las reglas XD
2) Me gustaria obligar a seguirlas a mas de uno…
Wolfram : A new kind of science (more like a new POV of it…)
Taleb: Black Swan (or why the statistics you studied on your bachelors arent worth a shit exactly in the cases when they would actually matter)
meme:
n. A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another
Oil Peak theory by M.King Hubbert proved to be right applied to US production, i believe it will apply globally too… (and make no mistake: we, as species, will reach it…)
It seems the Green Revolution is heavily dependant on oil, thus: Malthusian catastrophe
There will be interesting developments in renewable energy sources: like transforming CO2 to Methanol (Craig Venter is going in the same direction), but im afraid it wont be enough
ITER should be pretty clean and safe, actually…
Hydrogen economy (Jeremy Rifkin) Hydrogen will be just an energy storage medium. Its not available in nature in a pure, useful state, it must be manufactured by reformation of oil or hydrolysis
So, it seems there are ways… its a matter of effort and timing
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Un the meantime: TR10 , Pebble bed reactor
The Selfish Gene (by Richard Dawkins)
Genomics is cool, but the really tough stuff and the most useful is proteomics, specifically in the context of the human body and medicine, thats metabolomics…
The first wave was tools and agriculture. The second wave was the industiral age. The Third Wave is information. The Fourth Wave will be biotech. The Fifth Wave will be a combination of nanotechnology, memetics, and artificial intelligence, and will change mankind more than the first four waves put together. Beyond that is The Singularity. (the rapture of the nerds?)
Raymond_Kurzweil (KurzweilAI.net) the singularity is near, or farther than he thinks… it could very easily be the case that the things he describes are exponentially harder to tackle than the frist steps we are taking in those directions…
Transhumanism (yeah, whatever…)
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