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The SENS Challenge

...offered by Technology Review against Aubrey de Grey's theses doesn't seem to be going so well. At least for the skeptics:

The judges’ unanimous opinion is summed up by Dr. Myhrvold, who observed: “Some scientists react very negatively toward those who seek to claim the mantle of scientific authority for ideas that have not yet been proved. Estep et al. seem to have this philosophy. They raise many reasons to doubt SENS. Their submission does the best job in that regard. But at the same time, they are too quick to engage in name-calling, labeling ideas as 'pseudo-scientific' or 'unscientific' that they cannot really demonstrate are so. We need to remember that all hypotheses go through a stage where one or a small number of investigators believe something and others raise doubts.”

Robotics pioneer Dr. Brooks stated: “I have no confidence that they (SENS detractors) understand engineering, and some of their criticisms are poor criticisms of a legitimate engineering process.”

I just noticed that the link to the original Technology Review announcement is broken at the MPrize site. Here it is.

Posted by Rand Simberg at July 11, 2006 10:57 PM
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