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Ron Paul 15 minutes of debate destruction – Video

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How to Talk to Left and Right About Libertarianism: Anthony Gregory on the Tom Woods Show – Video

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BRAINS: Transhumanist Audit pt. 2 – Video

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Peru Node of The Millennium Project Will Celebrate Its First International Future Day on March 1, 2014

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(PRWEB) February 18, 2014

With the aim to promote foresight activities in Peru and encourage local future studies to prepare the South American country to face the challenges of the next decades, a group of Peruvian futurists led by Fernando Ortega, Chair of Millennium Projects Peruvian Node, will organize the International Future Day on March 1st at the main Auditorium of the College of Engineers in Lima.

The principal event will be an open Seminar on the Future of Peru, Latin America and the World, which will have as keynote speakers Dr. Jos Luis Cordeiro, Chair of Millennium Projects Venezuelan Node, and Dr. Carlos Fonseca, former Chair of Colombian Institute of Science, Technology and Innovation (Colciencias) and former Vice-minister of Environment in Colombia. Jos Luis Cordeiro will also present The Millennium Projects Global Futures Intelligence System and the Spanish version of the latest best-seller by Ray Kurzweil, How to Create a Mind, whose preface he has written. "Serious thinking about the future needs to contemplate the real possibility of a technological singularity where artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence," explained Dr. Cordeiro.

Although this first celebration will be focused in Lima, the organizers want to enlarge the coverage of events all around Peru next year. "The awareness about the future is waking up in Peru, mainly among the young people, who wish to build a better country with wide opportunities for everyone," according to Fernando Ortega, President of the Organizing Committee.

The Millennium Project is a global participatory think tank connecting 50 Nodes around the world that identify important challenges in their regions, and initiate and conduct futures-related special research, workshops, symposiums, and advanced training. Its mission is to improve thinking about the future and make it available through a variety of media for feedback to accumulate wisdom about the future for better decisions today. It produces the annual "State of the Future" reports, the "Futures Research Methodology" series, the Global Futures Intelligence System (GFIS), and special studies. The forthcoming 2013-2014 State of the Future will be also launched on International Futures Day, March 1st, 2014. Its recent report "Latin America 2030" is also available on The Millennium Project website.

Humanity+ (formerly the World Transhumanist Association) is an international organization which advocates the ethical use of emerging technologies to enhance human capacities. The World Transhumanist Association (WTA) was founded in 1998 as a non-profit organization to work toward the recognition of transhumanism as a legitimate subject of scientific inquiry and public policy. Currently, Humanity+ has several thousand members around the world and many national and international chapters, including those of Peru and Venezuela in Latin America.

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Crysis 2 Let`s Play-Post Human Warrior difficulty-Without using Armor and Cloak-#6 – Video

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Post offices opened on Presidents' Day due to ice storm

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(WXIA) - The region's postal service came to a grinding halt for two days during last week's ice storm.

To make up for the backlog, 27 Atlanta area post offices made the rare move to open their doors on the President's Day holiday on Monday for regular business hours.

"There was no work, so we're digging out of it (the backlog) like other businesses are digging out of," said postal worker Linda Bynum.

This is good news for Ali Adhi. He was sworn in as a US citizen on Monday. He was worried the storm would mean long lines for passports once the post office opened.

"I actually didn't even think it was open," he said. "I said let me just drive and see."

Others were pleased too.

"I think it's great for them to do that," said one post office visitor. "After so many snow days, and things have had to be closed."

There was no home postal delivery Monday, despite the extra hours at the post offices. Normal delivery and services will resume on Tuesday.

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Womens group slams Sarmientos appointment

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A womens rights group slammed the appointment of former police General Lina Sarmiento as head of theHuman Rights Victims Claim Board.

The group Tanggol Bayi said that Sarmiento is unfit to assume the post because she was part of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Human Rights Office which committed alleged abuses against women during the past administration.

The appointment of a police general, one from an institution which has systematically spawned rights violations including numerous sexual forms of violence against women since the Martial Law period, is an affront to Filipinos and all victims of human rights abuses, Kiri Dalena, Tanggol Bayi convenor said.

During the Marcos regime, Dalena said thousands of women disappeared, were killed, tortured, raped, illegally arrested, and detained by the Philippine Constabulary and other law enforcement groups to suppress the resistance of the Filipino people against the dictatorship.

These human rights violations are continued by the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police. During the Arroyo administration, when Sarmiento was part of the PNP Human Rights Office, 152 women were victims of extrajudicial killing, 31 women disappeared, while 290 women were illegally arrested and detained, Cristina Palabay, Tanggol Bayi co-convenor added.

Under the current administration, human rights group Karapatan documented 18 women victims of extrajudicial killing, three cases of rapeand 33 women political prisoners who were victims of illegal arrests and fabricated charges.

President Aquino is using a female police official to deodorize stinking institutions with notorious records of human rights abuses, Palabay said.

Tanggol Bayi likewise scored Malacanangs disregard for its women nominees to the claims board.

The group claimed that its nominees are publicly known for their deep and thorough understanding and knowledge of human rights and involvement in efforts against human rights violations and clear and adequate understanding and commitment to human rights protection, promotion and advocacy.

These are minimum qualifications needed for claims board members under the Human Rights Victims Reparation and Recognition Act of 2013, Palabay said.

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Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Gives Her A Thumbs Up

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He might not be the next Roger Ebert, but that didnt stop futurist and artificial-intelligence pioneer Ray Kurzweil from giving Spike Jonzes Oscar-nominated and slightly satirical sci-fi dramedyHera strongly positive review on cinematic if not all technology grounds. This is a breakthrough concept in cinematic futurism in the way thatThe Matrixpresented a realistic vision that virtual reality will ultimately be as real as, well, real reality, Kurzweil writes in a review posted recently on his site KurzweilAI.net. Kurzweil, now Googles director of engineering, is author of books such asThe Singularity Is Nearand The Age of Spiritual Machines and subject of the documentaryTranscendent Man, all of which detail Kurzweils vision of a future when computer intelligence becomes self aware and merges more fully with human intelligence.

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Overall, Kurzweil calls the film very successful, and says it does a better job than most predecessors, such as Steven SpielbergsA.I.,in portraying a plausible future where a human and an artificial intelligence could have some sort of relationship.

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InHer,Joaquin Phoenixs lonely and depressed lead character Theodore becomes enamored with the operating system, which he dubs Samantha, that he has installed on his computer. Samantha, seductively voiced by Scarlett Johansson, becomes more and more emotionally involved with Theodore, even as Samantha grows more sophisticated and independent.

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Kurzweils caveats are mostly about the timing and rapidity of some technology developments portrayed in Jonzes slightly-in-the-future world.

His biggest beef, though,is a familiar one to his longtime followers, revolving around the films portrayal of artificial intelligence as a stand-alone creation. Samantha and Theodore have issues, despite some creative efforts to get around it, with the fact that one of them has a body and the other one doesnt, and one of them is developing rapidly into something new.

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But in the future, Kurzweil says, that wont be a problem. An AI, he says, wont be over there, separate from and disconnected from and eventually superior to humans, but part of and merged with them.

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Cockeyed Futurist – Video

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CoLab Summit: Futurist Glen Hiemstra on the future of leadership – Video

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