How many BTC do you think these whales have? How are they distributed at the top?

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Yes, I'll be watching this thread closely so feel free to ask here or in message. I check the forums obse^H^H^H^H several times per day.

Does the link no longer work for you? It should be up at www.neuroethics.com.

Below are the abstracts two talks given by David Pearce. The ideas discussed do not require any religious or political affiliation (e.g. they are fully compatible with atheism). Some of the terms are technical -- "zombies" is used in the philosophical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie rather than undead sense.

Are any other transhumanist charities accepting bitcoin? It seems to be a natural fit.

Accelerating technological progress leads some futurists to predict the imminent end of the human era and the dawn of posthuman superintelligence. But what is superintelligence? How does intelligence relate to sentience? What are the Explanatory Gap, Moravec's Paradox, and the Binding Problem? Will nonbiological machines ever be more than zombies?

This talk explores three different scenarios for the major evolutionary transition in prospect.

In the first scenario, biological humans will rewrite our genetic source code, recursively self-edit our own minds, and bootstrap our way to full-spectrum superintelligence. Mastery of our reward circuitry will deliver life based on information-sensitive gradients of bliss.

In the second, Kurzweilian scenario, cybernetic brain implants will enable humans to fuse our minds with artificial intelligence; and also allow humans to scan, digitise and "upload" ourselves into a less perishable substrate. In digital nirvana, the distinction between biological and nonbiological machines will effectively disappear.

In the third scenario, most closely associated with mathematician I.J. Good and The Singularity Institute, a combination of Moore's law and the advent of recursively self-improving software-based minds will culminate in an ultra-rapid Intelligence Explosion and an era of nonbiological superintelligence. Posthuman superintelligence may or may not be human-friendly.

How strong is the supporting evidence for each of these prophecies?

Genetic change in biological humans is slow. Progress in digital computing is fast. Software run on serial, programmable digital computers is executed exponentially faster (cf. Moore's Law); it's copyable without limit; it runs on multiple substrates; and it can be rapidly edited, tested and debugged. Singularitarians like Ray Kurzweil or SIAI's Eliezer Yudkowsky prophesy that human programmers will soon be redundant because AI run on digital computers will undergo accelerating cycles of self-improvement (cf. Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns). Artificial, greater-than-human nonbiological intelligence will swiftly be succeeded by artificial posthuman superintelligence.

This talk examines, and then discounts, the prospect of a "robot rebellion". Biological humanity is on the brink of a Biointelligence Explosion. Humans are poised to exploit "narrow" or "weak" AI to enhance our own code in a positive feedback loop of mutual enhancement. Starting with individual genes, then clusters of genes, and eventually hundreds of genes and alternative splice variants, a host of recursively self-improving organic robots ("biohackers") will modify their own source code and modes of sentience: their senses, their moods, their motivation, their world-simulations, their cognitive apparatus and their default state of consciousness. As the era of open-source genetics unfolds, tomorrow's biohackers will use high-level gene editing tools, insertion vector applications, nonviral gene-editing kits, and user-friendly interfaces to add, delete, edit and customize their own legacy code in a positive feedback loop of cognitive and emotional enhancement. Recursively self-improving biological humans are going to bootstrap their way to full-spectrum superintelligence - and indescribable bliss.

I'm one of the founders -- is there anything I can help with?

I like investing in companies with ethics.

Yes, good point. It would be nice to get an explanation for this.

Sorry for the double post. Will lock this.

When donating to a charity does it make tax sense to sell the coins first and donate cash? Or donate BTC directly? Anyone know how this works w/ deductions?

It seems like EFF says BTC can be donated like a stock.

 "You can now give Bitcoins to EFF in the same way that you can give stock.  EFF has long had a policy that converts gifts of stock and items like cars into cash immediately on receipt. We try to convert your donations into action as soon as possible."

Then again if you cash out - long term capital gains rates are 0% in certain income brackets.

When donating to a charity does it make tax sense to sell the coins first and donate cash? Or donate BTC directly? Anyone know how this works w/ deductions?

It seems like EFF says BTC can be donated like a stock.

Then again if you cash out - long term capital gains rates are 0% in certain income brackets.

The last timeline:

Do we know how many TH of 2nd-gen?

The last update was ~1 month ago and included this information:


Does anyone have more details on the additional hashpower?

It worked!

$110 Oracle, do we bet red or black?

Bump! Anyone?

Do we have a timeline for when Mastercoins will be implemented to the point where betting is possible? When might these coins have a valuation? Thanks.

Does anyone have a running log showing ASICMINER orphans so we can see if the # decreases given the possibly improved network connectivity?

Oh yea I donated some coin and also... bump.

Would be awesome if OTR had a project roadmap or public TODO list. The stuff Mike mentioned is important and I don't see it anywhere. Hardened software would be good -- e.g. TAILS just removed the non-XMPP stuff from Pidgin for some reason (perhaps there's a history of more exploits in AIM/etc. libraries), and OTR forgot to enable DEP and ASLR recently. Also the latest Pidgin fails with some of the EMET exploit mitigation features under Windows (looks like it will be patched in the next version).

File transmission capabilities would definitely be useful.

Thanks and apologies for missing this the first time it was posted! Normally I click on friedcat's username and read his posts. Should I also be following posts of a specific board member? e.g. ThickAsThieves? Thanks again!

As a shareholder I would like to see a question about the network connectivity of the node. Specifically is there is a plan to address the number of stales and the low number of transactions in the blocks mined by AM. This would help increase shareholder value (more blocks, more transactions) and also address a concern that the community has about AM. It would also increase confirmation time and thus make the network better overall. Thanks!