New York Times
The New York Times has featured us at
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/2...and-a-i/
We quote from the article, "The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit that
seeks to protect people from some seriously catastrophic
technology-related events. It funds research that would prevent a
situation where technology has run amok, sort of like a pre-Fringe
Unit."
X-Risks Network
The Lifeboat Foundation is ready to begin work on an ambitious project
called the Lifeboat Foundation X-Risks Network. Our mailing list/forum
for this project is at
http://groups.google.com/group/lifeboat...-network. To
get invited to the discussion on our mailing list/forum, send an email
with the subject "Lifeboat Foundation X-Risks Network" to
The goal of the X-Risks Network project is to combine a bayesian
network, a debate graph, and a project tracking system all into one
graph. The project is focused on tracking progress on existential risk
reduction and then determining the most leveraged ways to help reduce
existential risks.
Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/x-risks-network
Neuroscience Board
We have launched a forum/mailing list for our Neuroscience Board at
http://groups.google.com/group/lifeboat...oscience
If you wish to join our Neuroscience Board, you can apply by sending an
email with the subject "Lifeboat Foundation Neuroscience Board" to
The Lifeboat Foundation now has 7 forum/mailing lists which are listed
at http://lifeboat.com/ex/forums
Reports
Read the reports "Human Body Version 2.0" and "Law of Accelerating Returns" by our Ray Kurzweil at http://lifeboat.com/ex/human.body.version.2.0 and http://lifeboat.com/ex/law.of.accelerating.returns
Space Habitats
Our updated Space Habitats page is up at http://lifeboat.com/ex/space.habitats thanks to James Doehring.
Amazon
The Lifeboat Foundation sold 24 copies of "Apocalypse When?: Calculating
How Long the Human Race Will Survive" in one day. Visit our Lifeboat
Foundation Amazon store at http://lifeboat.com/amazon (This store is
identical to Amazon but donates about 6.5% of its proceeds to us.)
You can order "Apocalypse When" at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/038709...87098364
Blog
Denise Herzing joins our blog team with the post "The True Cost of
Ignoring Nonhumans" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2010/07/the-tr...onhumans
Peer Infinity joins our blog team with the post "Existential Risk
Reduction Career Network" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2010/06/existe...-network
TransVision 2010
TransVision 2010 will be held October 22-24 in Milan, Italy. This
conference will be a very intense, informative, scientific as well as an
entertaining tour de force in contemporary transhumanist thinking,
activism, science, technology & innovation and grand visionary dreams,
with over 40 talks distributed over three days.
Our Riccardo Campa, Lincoln Cannon, José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey,
Robert M. Geraci, Ben Goertzel, Randal A. Koene, Miriam Leis, Eugen
Leitl, David Orban, David Pearce, Giulio Prisco, Martine Rothblatt,
Anders Sandberg, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking.
Learn more at http://transvision2010.wordpress.com/
Eclipse Phase
The RPG Eclipse Phase includes the "Singularity Foundation" and
"Lifeboat Institute" as player factions.
Learn more about this game at http://www.eclipsephase.com/
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since the last newsletter:
Robert Lecnik: $3,000,
Anonymous: $1,155,
Donald Maclean: $1,000,
John Bone: $100,
Michael Anissimov: $85,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Jason Gaverick Matheny: $85,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Frank C. Adamek: $25,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Joe Solomon: $25,
Ronald Amos: $10,
David Carter: $10,
Rebecca R. Cooper: $10,
Christopher Dilkus: $10,
James Doerhing: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
Stephen Fleming: $10,
George Garrett: $10,
M. A. 'Doc Gee' Greenstein: $10,
Charles Hawk: $10,
Aaron Mayzes: $10,
John N. Philipps (Jack): $10,
Lee Irwin Pringle: $10,
Rhonda Stevenson: $10,
and Dermot Tomelty: $10.
Our Join Us page at https://lifeboat.com/ex/join.us now allows you to
pay for your membership anywhere from monthly to every ten years.
