http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvEftuPpUEI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Solomon’s_Mines

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/08/11/2331197.htm

I had a great conversation with Rick from the League of Conservation Voters today. “LCV’s mission is to advocate for sound environmental policies and to elect pro-environmental candidates who will adopt and implement such policies.” They are doing some fundraising now

If you have a minute please check out the site.

Thanks,
Ben

April 2007 — An unmanned hydrogen fuel cell powered “jet-like” UAV made history this week as it took to the skies over the hills of Bern, Switzerland. The “Hyfish” astonished its creators as it flawlessly performed vertical climbs, loops and other aerial acrobatics at speeds reaching 200 km/h. The successful maiden flight was the result of one and a half years of cooperative development between the German Air & Space Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft-und Raumfahrt) and a number of international partners including Smartfish for the plane design, Druckon, Baltico, and Teknizentrum Ainet. A record performance 1kW fuel cell and hydrogen system weighing just 3kg and capable of powering the small jet was supplied by Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies of Singapore: www.horizonfuelcell.com 

I like the sound of it. Its like its a real happy shark.

In honor of this political season we proudly present the following for your pleasure …

The virtual communities created by online games have provided us with a new medium for social interaction and communication. Avatar Machine is a system which replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character in real space via a head mounted interface. The system potentially allows for a diminished sense of social responsibility, and could lead the user to demonstrate behaviors normally reserved for the gaming environment.

Sorry for deleting the article “Understanding Worldpeace”. I said i would extend on it but after probing some theorys with friends i feel the world isnt ready to understand this truth. Sometimes truth is malformed to fit political and “feel good” views on the world and thus science becomes corupt. I dont want to be a source of negativity and i dont want to be the bad guy, but i also dont want to change my understanding in a way it becomes compatible to any Zeitgeist. So what i understand i have to keep inside untill i find a medium that i feel free in to explain it. The Internet comes close these days but youtube might just not be it. We need the next spiralization upwards to communicate further levels. Like i said -sorry.

Eliezer Yudkowsky is one of the world’s foremost researchers on Friendly AI and recursive self-improvement. He created the Friendly AI approach to AGI, which emphasizes the importance of the structure of an ethical optimization process and its supergoal, in contrast to the common trend of seeking the right fixed enumeration of ethical rules a moral agent should follow. In 2001, he published the first technical analysis of motivationally stable goal systems, with his book-length Creating Friendly AI: The Analysis and Design of Benevolent Goal Architectures. In 2002, he wrote “Levels of Organization in General Intelligence,” a paper on the evolutionary psychology of human general intelligence, published in the edited volume Artificial General Intelligence (Springer, 2006). He has two papers forthcoming in the edited volume Global Catastrophic Risks (Oxford, 2007), “Cognitive Biases Potentially Affecting Judgment of Global Risks” and “Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk.

Check out Eli’s blog overcomingbias.com.