1. The document advocates for addressing major issues facing humanity such as resource shortages, aging populations, economic crises, and diseases through technologies like nanotechnology, robotics, artificial intelligence, space exploitation, and intelligence augmentation. 2. Specific goals mentioned include developing clean energy sources like thorium nuclear, solar, and fusion; using nanotechnology and robotics to improve medicine, materials, and space exploration; developing general and medical care robots; and pursuing artificial general intelligence and personal AI assistants. 3. The document argues that exploiting space resources will be necessary to solve problems on Earth and that maximizing intelligence in the universe should be a priority through various means of intelligence augmentation.

1. What Do We Advocate?
Bringing It Together

2. Where Are We?
• Over six billion people with majority well below our living
standard
• Growing resource shortages even for status quo
– Including water
• Energy shortages are eminent
• Aging populations in all developed countries
– Much larger health care and retirement benefit costs
• Economic Crisis
• Economic Crisis
– Across almost all developed countries
• Possibly pushing edge of human decidable problem
resolution speed and accuracy

3. Health
• End to aging
• Full medical nanotech
• End of all diseases
• Curing of all physically based maladies
• What of psychological ones?
– Advocacy of mental health
• What of growth of consciousness / wisdom /
enlightenment?

4. Health, short term
• Preventative medicine
• Genome specific medicine
– Much safer and more effective
• 200000 deaths per year in US from medical treatment most
of them prescription drug related
• Of course this is also indictment of 20th century medicine.
• This is 3rd leading cause of death!
• Plasticization and/or cryrogenic preservation
– Fully legal
– Covered procedure

5. Resources, Materials
• Nanomaterials eventual
• Off planet resources
– Especially / most immediately near earth asteroidsr
• Much more precious metals, rare earth, etc in far richer
concentration than on earth
– Also need these resources out of gravity well to
exploit spce
• High priority materials research

6. Energy
• Prosperity is directly proportional to per
capita energy and inversely proportional to
energy cost
• Cheap plentiful energy essential
– to raising world wide standard of living
– to space exploitation
– To food and water production, transportation,
computerization..
– Essential to economic health

7. Energy goals
• Short Term
– Nuclear Fission
• Thorium based reactors
– Solar
• Better panels
• Thin film
• Use everywhere it makes sense
– Improved Energy Storage
– Much better battery technology
– Move toward all electric transportation
– Geothermal

8. Energy Goals
• Longer Term
– Fusion
– Carpeting everything with thin film solar possible
• Distribution by nanotech grid
• Used where collected as much as possible
– Space based solar
• If needed. Depends on which of the above come online
in what order

9. Robotics
• Essential to freeing humans from many
tedious and dangerous jobs
• Essential to space exploitation
• In forms of cyborization, enhancement path
from human 1.0
• Possible upload alternative
– Alternate better and as or more sensitive body

10. Robotics Goals
• Robocars
• Autonomous Space Robots
• Health care robots
• General task autonomous and semi-
autonomous robots
• Tighter human / robot integration
• Better teleoperation
– Fuller sense integration

11. Intelligence Augmentation
• Maximizing intelligence is obviously essential for
maximizing almost everything else
• All individual choices of means are legal
• R&D in IA
• Drugs
• Diet
• Training
• Physical brain augmentation
• Wearables
• Software systems
• BCI

12. Nanotechnology
• Of course nanotech is key to a lot of what we
want
– Medicine, longevity, energy, materials, space, IA, AI
(to some degree), computronium
• Manhattan project equivalent for molecular
nanotech
– But is more fundamental research needed than was
the case then?
– Is so then may take a half generation of money
available to attract enough quality researchers

13. Artificial Intelligence
• Essential to
– Robotics
– IA
– Going beyond human limitations
– Maximizing intelligence in universe
• Push for full AGI
– Intelligence unhinged from the evolved biological
• Software writing AI
• Personal decision support AI
– confidante

14. Space Exploitation
• Humanity and allp our works limited to this one
rock is not tenable
• Space is where vastly more resources and energy
than on earth is
• Space and other stars/planets it the outer
(physical) frontier
• Space may belong to non-humans, at least not to
human 1.0
– But many of our problems on earth cannot be solved
without exploiting at least local space

15. Economics
• Resolve energy
• Resolve resources
• Much better robotics
• More efficient process and algorithms
• More controversial
– Repudiate the national debts
– Cut all unfunded liabilities as fast as possible
– Separation between government and economy