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[[WP:AES|←]]Created page with '{{stub}} The [http://lifeboat.com/ Lifeboat Foundatation] is a nonprofit nongovernmental organization dedicated to encouraging scientific advancements while hel...'
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{{stub}} The [http://lifeboat.com/ Lifeboat Foundatation] 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 the Singularity (from their homepage). Their [http://lifeboat.com/ex/boards advisory boards] includes a great deal of world-famous individuals, including 13 [[Nobel Laureates]] as of April 2013.
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{{stub}} The [http://lifeboat.com/ Lifeboat Foundatation] 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 the Singularity (from their homepage). Their [http://lifeboat.com/ex/boards advisory boards] includes a great deal of world-famous individuals, including 13 [[Nobel Laureates]] as of April 2013. == List of Boards == (Updated April 2013) # Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board # Astrobiology/SETI Board # Biotech/Medical Board # Business Board # Chemistry Board # Complex Systems Board # Cosmology Board # Counterterrorism Board # Cybercrime/Malcode Board # Diplomacy Board # Economics Board # Education Board # Engineering Board # Ethics Board # Finance Board # Futurists Board # Geology/Geophysics Board # Human-Nonhuman Relationship Board # Human Trajectories Board # Information Sciences Board # Legal Board # Life Extension Board # Media & Arts Board # Methods for Discovery & Solution Finding Board # Nanotechnology Board # Neuroscience Board # Particle Physics Board # Philosophy Board # Physics Board # Policy Board # Religion/Spirituality Board # Robotics/AI Board # Scientific Freedom Board # Social Factors Board # Space Settlement Board # Supercomputing Board # Sustainability Board # Transparency and Privacy Board
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added a notability concern; please check the link to the deletion discussion of last year; and provide reliable sources to establish notability
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{{stub}} {{notability}} The [http://lifeboat.com/ Lifeboat Foundatation] is a nonprofit nongovernmental organization, according to its website "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 the Singularity" Their [http://lifeboat.com/ex/boards advisory boards] includes13 [[Nobel Laureates]] as of April 2013 according to its website. == List of Boards == (Updated April 2013) # Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board # Astrobiology/SETI Board # Biotech/Medical Board # Business Board # Chemistry Board # Complex Systems Board # Cosmology Board # Counterterrorism Board # Cybercrime/Malcode Board # Diplomacy Board # Economics Board # Education Board # Engineering Board # Ethics Board # Finance Board # Futurists Board # Geology/Geophysics Board # Human-Nonhuman Relationship Board # Human Trajectories Board # Information Sciences Board # Legal Board # Life Extension Board # Media & Arts Board # Methods for Discovery & Solution Finding Board # Nanotechnology Board # Neuroscience Board # Particle Physics Board # Philosophy Board # Physics Board # Policy Board # Religion/Spirituality Board # Robotics/AI Board # Scientific Freedom Board # Social Factors Board # Space Settlement Board # Supercomputing Board # Sustainability Board # Transparency and Privacy Board
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{{stub}} {{notability|date=April 2013}} The [http://lifeboat.com/ Lifeboat Foundatation] is a nonprofit nongovernmental organization, according to its website "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 the Singularity" Their [http://lifeboat.com/ex/boards advisory boards] includes13 [[Nobel Laureates]] as of April 2013 according to its website. == List of Boards == (Updated April 2013) # Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board # Astrobiology/SETI Board # Biotech/Medical Board # Business Board # Chemistry Board # Complex Systems Board # Cosmology Board # Counterterrorism Board # Cybercrime/Malcode Board # Diplomacy Board # Economics Board # Education Board # Engineering Board # Ethics Board # Finance Board # Futurists Board # Geology/Geophysics Board # Human-Nonhuman Relationship Board # Human Trajectories Board # Information Sciences Board # Legal Board # Life Extension Board # Media & Arts Board # Methods for Discovery & Solution Finding Board # Nanotechnology Board # Neuroscience Board # Particle Physics Board # Philosophy Board # Physics Board # Policy Board # Religion/Spirituality Board # Robotics/AI Board # Scientific Freedom Board # Social Factors Board # Space Settlement Board # Supercomputing Board # Sustainability Board # Transparency and Privacy Board
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{{stub}} {{notability|date=April 2013}} The [http://lifeboat.com/ Lifeboat Foundatation] is a nonprofit nongovernmental organization, according to its website "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 the Singularity" Their [http://lifeboat.com/ex/boards advisory boards] includes13 [[Nobel Laureates]] as of April 2013 according to its website. == List of Boards == (Updated April 2013) # Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board # Astrobiology/SETI Board # Biotech/Medical Board # Business Board # Chemistry Board # Complex Systems Board # Cosmology Board # Counterterrorism Board # Cybercrime/Malcode Board # Diplomacy Board # Economics Board # Education Board # Engineering Board # Ethics Board # Finance Board # Futurists Board # Geology/Geophysics Board # Human-Nonhuman Relationship Board # Human Trajectories Board # Information Sciences Board # Legal Board # Life Extension Board # Media & Arts Board # Methods for Discovery & Solution Finding Board # Nanotechnology Board # Neuroscience Board # Particle Physics Board # Philosophy Board # Physics Board # Policy Board # Religion/Spirituality Board # Robotics/AI Board # Scientific Freedom Board # Social Factors Board # Space Settlement Board # Supercomputing Board # Sustainability Board # Transparency and Privacy Board == References == # http://becominggaia.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/please-quitboycott-the-lifeboat-foundation/ # http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/4610 # http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/the-lifeboat-foundation-battling-asteroids-nanobots-and-a-i/ # http://qr.ae/TxMUQ
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{{stub}} {{notability|date=April 2013}} '''The references for this article are currently being verified, please do not trust the content of this article for the time being''' The [http://lifeboat.com/ Lifeboat Foundatation] is a nonprofit nongovernmental organization, according to its website "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 the Singularity" Their [http://lifeboat.com/ex/boards advisory boards] includes13 [[Nobel Laureates]] as of April 2013 according to its website. == List of Boards == (Updated April 2013) # Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board # Astrobiology/SETI Board # Biotech/Medical Board # Business Board # Chemistry Board # Complex Systems Board # Cosmology Board # Counterterrorism Board # Cybercrime/Malcode Board # Diplomacy Board # Economics Board # Education Board # Engineering Board # Ethics Board # Finance Board # Futurists Board # Geology/Geophysics Board # Human-Nonhuman Relationship Board # Human Trajectories Board # Information Sciences Board # Legal Board # Life Extension Board # Media & Arts Board # Methods for Discovery & Solution Finding Board # Nanotechnology Board # Neuroscience Board # Particle Physics Board # Philosophy Board # Physics Board # Policy Board # Religion/Spirituality Board # Robotics/AI Board # Scientific Freedom Board # Social Factors Board # Space Settlement Board # Supercomputing Board # Sustainability Board # Transparency and Privacy Board == References == # http://becominggaia.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/please-quitboycott-the-lifeboat-foundation/ # http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/4610 # http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/the-lifeboat-foundation-battling-asteroids-nanobots-and-a-i/ # http://qr.ae/TxMUQ
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<comment>categorization/tagging using [[Project:AWB|AWB]]</comment>
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{{notability|date=April 2013}} '''The references for this article are currently being verified, please do not trust the content of this article for the time being''' The [http://lifeboat.com/ Lifeboat Foundatation] is a nonprofit nongovernmental organization, according to its website "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 the Singularity" Their [http://lifeboat.com/ex/boards advisory boards] includes13 [[Nobel Laureates]] as of April 2013 according to its website. == List of Boards == (Updated April 2013) # Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board # Astrobiology/SETI Board # Biotech/Medical Board # Business Board # Chemistry Board # Complex Systems Board # Cosmology Board # Counterterrorism Board # Cybercrime/Malcode Board # Diplomacy Board # Economics Board # Education Board # Engineering Board # Ethics Board # Finance Board # Futurists Board # Geology/Geophysics Board # Human-Nonhuman Relationship Board # Human Trajectories Board # Information Sciences Board # Legal Board # Life Extension Board # Media & Arts Board # Methods for Discovery & Solution Finding Board # Nanotechnology Board # Neuroscience Board # Particle Physics Board # Philosophy Board # Physics Board # Policy Board # Religion/Spirituality Board # Robotics/AI Board # Scientific Freedom Board # Social Factors Board # Space Settlement Board # Supercomputing Board # Sustainability Board # Transparency and Privacy Board == References == # http://becominggaia.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/please-quitboycott-the-lifeboat-foundation/ # http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/4610 # http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/the-lifeboat-foundation-battling-asteroids-nanobots-and-a-i/ # http://qr.ae/TxMUQ {{Uncategorized|date=April 2013}} {{stub}}
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{{notability|date=April 2013}} '''The references for this article are currently being verified, please do not trust the content of this article for the time being''' The [http://lifeboat.com/ Lifeboat Foundatation] is a nonprofit nongovernmental organization, according to its website "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 the Singularity" Their [http://lifeboat.com/ex/boards advisory boards] includes13 [[Nobel Laureates]] as of April 2013 according to its website. == List of Boards == (Updated April 2013) # Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board # Astrobiology/SETI Board # Biotech/Medical Board # Business Board # Chemistry Board # Complex Systems Board # Cosmology Board # Counterterrorism Board # Cybercrime/Malcode Board # Diplomacy Board # Economics Board # Education Board # Engineering Board # Ethics Board # Finance Board # Futurists Board # Geology/Geophysics Board # Human-Nonhuman Relationship Board # Human Trajectories Board # Information Sciences Board # Legal Board # Life Extension Board # Media & Arts Board # Methods for Discovery & Solution Finding Board # Nanotechnology Board # Neuroscience Board # Particle Physics Board # Philosophy Board # Physics Board # Policy Board # Religion/Spirituality Board # Robotics/AI Board # Scientific Freedom Board # Social Factors Board # Space Settlement Board # Supercomputing Board # Sustainability Board # Transparency and Privacy Board == References == # http://becominggaia.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/please-quitboycott-the-lifeboat-foundation/ # http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/4610 # http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/the-lifeboat-foundation-battling-asteroids-nanobots-and-a-i/ # http://qr.ae/TxMUQ {{Uncategorized|date=April 2013}} {{org-stub}}
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{{notability|date=April 2013}} {{refimprove|date=April 2013}} The '''Lifeboat Foundatation''' 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 the Singularity."<ref>{{cite web|title=About the Lifeboat Foundation|url=http://lifeboat.com/ex/about|publisher=The Lifeboat Founation|accessdate=26 April 2013}}</ref> == Advisory Boards == The Lifeboat foundation maintains dedicated "advisory boards"<ref name=LB1>{{cite web|title=Advisory Boards|url=http://lifeboat.com/ex/boards|publisher=The Lifeboat Foundation|accessdate=26 April 2013}}</ref> for research into specific topics related to [[existential risks]], including:{{r|LB1}} {{div col|cols=3}} * Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board * Astrobiology/SETI Board * Biotech/Medical Board * Business Board * Chemistry Board * Complex Systems Board * Cosmology Board * Counterterrorism Board * Cybercrime/Malcode Board * Diplomacy Board * Economics Board * Education Board * Engineering Board * Ethics Board * Finance Board * Futurists Board * Geology/Geophysics Board * Human-Nonhuman Relationship Board * Human Trajectories Board * Information Sciences Board * Legal Board * Life Extension Board * Media & Arts Board * Methods for Discovery & Solution Finding Board * Nanotechnology Board * Neuroscience Board * Particle Physics Board * Philosophy Board * Physics Board * Policy Board * Religion/Spirituality Board * Robotics/AI Board * Scientific Freedom Board * Social Factors Board * Space Settlement Board * Supercomputing Board * Sustainability Board * Transparency and Privacy Board {{div col end}} The membership of these boards includes 13 [[Nobel Laureate]]s.{{r|LB1}}{{verification failed|date=April 2013}} == References == {{reflist}} *http://becominggaia.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/please-quitboycott-the-lifeboat-foundation/ *http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/4610 *http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/the-lifeboat-foundation-battling-asteroids-nanobots-and-a-i/ == External Links == [http://lifeboat.com/ Official Website] [[Category:Human extinction]] [[Category:Hazards]] [[Category:Risk analysis]] {{org-stub}}
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{{notability|date=April 2013}} {{refimprove|date=April 2013}} {{Infobox organization | name = Lifeboat Foundation | former name = | image = | image_border = | size = <!-- default 200px --> | alt = <!-- alt text; see [[WP:ALT]] --> | caption = | abbreviation = | motto = | predecessor = | successor = | formation = <!-- {{Start date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | extinction = <!-- date of extinction, optional --> | type = [[Non-governmental organization|NGO]] | status = <!-- ad hoc, treaty, foundation, etc --> | purpose = Prepare humanity to survive [[existential risk]]s | headquarters = | location = | coords = <!-- Coordinates of location using a coordinates template --> | region_served = | membership = | language = <!-- official languages --> | general = <!-- Secretary General --> | leader_title = Chairman | leader_name = Eric Klien<ref name=NYT1>{{cite news|last=Vance|first=Ashlee|title=The Lifeboat Foundation: Battling Asteroids, Nanobots and A.I.|url=http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/the-lifeboat-foundation-battling-asteroids-nanobots-and-a-i/|accessdate=26 April 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=20 July 2010}}</ref> | leader_title2 = | leader_name2 = | leader_title3 = | leader_name3 = | leader_title4 = | leader_name4 = | key_people = | main_organ = <!-- gral. assembly, board of directors, etc --> | parent_organization = <!-- if one --> | affiliations = <!-- if any --> | budget = | num_staff = | num_volunteers = | website = [http://lifeboat.com/ Official Website] | remarks = }} The '''Lifeboat Foundatation''' 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]]/[[Artificial intelligence|AI]], as we move towards [[the Singularity]]."<ref>{{cite web|title=About the Lifeboat Foundation|url=http://lifeboat.com/ex/about|publisher=The Lifeboat Founation|accessdate=26 April 2013}}</ref> Much of the money raised by the organization goes toward financing research projects at universities and other institutes.{{r|NYT1}} == Advisory Boards == The Lifeboat foundation maintains dedicated "advisory boards"<ref name=LB1>{{cite web|title=Advisory Boards|url=http://lifeboat.com/ex/boards|publisher=The Lifeboat Foundation|accessdate=26 April 2013}}</ref> for research into specific topics related to [[existential risks]], including:{{r|LB1}} {{div col|cols=3}} * Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board * Astrobiology/SETI Board * Biotech/Medical Board * Business Board * Chemistry Board * Complex Systems Board * Cosmology Board * Counterterrorism Board * Cybercrime/Malcode Board * Diplomacy Board * Economics Board * Education Board * Engineering Board * Ethics Board * Finance Board * Futurists Board * Geology/Geophysics Board * Human-Nonhuman Relationship Board * Human Trajectories Board * Information Sciences Board * Legal Board * Life Extension Board * Media & Arts Board * Methods for Discovery & Solution Finding Board * Nanotechnology Board * Neuroscience Board * Particle Physics Board * Philosophy Board * Physics Board * Policy Board * Religion/Spirituality Board * Robotics/AI Board * Scientific Freedom Board * Social Factors Board * Space Settlement Board * Supercomputing Board * Sustainability Board * Transparency and Privacy Board {{div col end}} The membership of these boards includes 13 [[Nobel laureate]]s{{r|LB1}}{{verification failed|date=April 2013}}, among them [[Eric Maskin]], who serves on the group’s economics board.{{r|NYT1}} == References == {{reflist}} == External Links == *[http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/4610 The Lifeboat Foundation: A stealth attack on scientists?] [[Category:Human extinction]] [[Category:Hazards]] [[Category:Risk analysis]] {{org-stub}}
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<comment>rephrase the blog</comment>
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no notability shown; I am nominating for deletion...
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