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The Lifeboat Foundation is supporting its first conference. And this conference is next month!
First Lifeboat Foundation conference
Mountain View, CA | Posted on October 6th, 2008Along with the Institute for Ethics and Emerging
Technologies and the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, the Lifeboat
Foundation is sponsoring Global Catastrophic Risks: Building a Resilient
Civilization which will be held November 14, 2008 at the Computer
History Museum, Mountain View, California. This conference will precede
the futurist mega-gathering Convergence 08, November 15-16 at the same
venue.
The Lifeboat Foundation's Jamais Cascio, James J. Hughes, Mike Treder,
and Eliezer Yudkowsky will be participating.
Learn more about this conference at
ieet.org/index.php/IEET/eventinfo/ieet20081114/
Help the Lifeboat Foundation support this event at
https://lifeboat.com/ex/global.catastrophic.risks (They have already
raised $1,000 out of their goal of $2,500.)
If you wish to be a speaker at this event, please write to
with the subject "Lifeboat Foundation Speaker".
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About Lifeboat Foundation
The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit nongovernmental organization
dedicated to encouraging scientific advancements while helping humanity
survive existential risks and possible misuse of increasingly powerful
technologies, including genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and
robotics/AI, as we move towards a technological singularity.
For more information, please click here
Contacts:
Lifeboat Foundation News office
1638 Esmeralda Avenue
Minden, NV 89423, USA
+1 775-329-0180
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