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1 #+title: Big List O' Ideas
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2 #+author: Robert McIntyre
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3 #+email: rlm@mit.edu
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4 #+description: list of ideas from the last ~ 7 years
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5 #+keywords: aurellem ideas half-baked random
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6 #+SETUPFILE: ../../aurellem/org/setup.org
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7 #+INCLUDE: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org
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8 #+babel: :mkdirp yes :noweb yes :exports both
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10 * Ideas
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11 # :PROPERTIES:
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12 # :HTML_CONTAINER_CLASS: ideas
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13 # :END:
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14
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15 This is a list of *Every* idea I've written down
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17 #+begin_quote
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18 There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about
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19 getting credit.
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20 #+end_quote
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21
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22 - spinal cord made of light; moon :: transit time of light from moon to
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23 earth is same as transit time of signals through spinal cord. So
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24 you could have your mind on the moon and your body on earth and
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25 it would feel the same!
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26
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27 - semantic darkmode browser extension :: some websites are naturally
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28 dark themed (like aurellem.org) while others are light themed
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29 (like google). At night I like dark themes and during daylight I
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30 like light themes. You can just invert your screen to convert
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31 light to dark, but when tabbing through multiple browser tabs
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32 you end up occasionally spraying your screen with bright
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33 colors. So, have a little button that inverts a single web page
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34 for firefox! Or, you can have a tiny bit of preprocessing (you
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35 just measure the overall white vs dark pixels) and then invert
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36 the page depending on that.
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37
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38 - optogenetic readout during cruoprotection :: basically a "lightbulb
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39 above the head" to measure activity of selected neurons.
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40
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41 - carbon dating and immortality :: if you've been /alive/ for a
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42 million years, you'll carbon-dat as being as old as yesterday.
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43
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44 - gas tenderization :: use high pressure and gas diffusion to both
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45 denature proteins and infiltrate lots of gas into a piece of
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46 meat. Then rapidly decrease the pressure, and the meat will
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47 experience air bubbles similarly to bread rising, and might
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48 become tender and tasty!
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49
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50 - learning damage from mind uploading :: a person might be uploaded
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51 so that they can answer every question about their life and be
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52 able to perform actions they had previously learned, but due to
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53 incomplete simulation of long term chemical and structural
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54 dynamics, they might have a severe learning disability!
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55
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56 - holy "spirit" :: most blasphemous liquor
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57
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58 - truck blindspot lights :: lights that shine on the road and show
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59 where your vehicle's blind spots are.
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60
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61 - eyelid screen :: you can just close you eyes, but you're reading a
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62 book. it would be really cool and look like rapid eye
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63 movement. In this tech, the screen would replace your eyelid
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64 entirely. The other really neat thing about this concept is that
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65 your eyelid screen is a part of you. You might have some
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66 smooth muscles in it that works like a selection or cursor, and
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67 the scren can feel your eye rolling underneath and tell where
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68 you're looking, allowing for a very immersive experience. It's
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69 like an "all-in" virtual mode, still cleanly separating the real
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70 from the digital, telling others you're in your "virtual space",
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71 and still looking entirely human.
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73 - blockchain based experential memory ::
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74
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75 - a hidden world of early life :: I imagine that the bridge form the
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76 first life forms to even very simple single celled organisms was
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77 probably very interesting and a lot more diverse than we give it
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78 credit for. Unfortunately, I doubt that we're going to find any
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79 good evidence for such creatures, since they don't seem like the
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80 type of organisms that would preserve well. All sorts of really
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81 neat delf replicating molecules and assemblies of molecules, and
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82 we'd have no record of any of them. The only way to get an idea
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83 of these types of life will be to make them again in the lab.
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84
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85 - brain insurance :: for the preserved brain
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86
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87 - remote control ants / pidgeons :: train/evolve them to want to
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88 follow an EM gradient or magnetic field. put a camera on.
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89
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90 - musical neural inversion :: get a simple model of emotional and
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91 auditory circuits, "invert" the model based on sound input, and
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92 generate music with constrating satisfaction. Might find some
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93 music that's simultaneously "alien" (lacking a top-down design)
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94 yet still deeply emotionally coherent and satisfying.
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95
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96 - simulated fire :: for those who say that simulated water can't get
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97 you wet, just see what happens if you attach your nerves to
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98 simulated output of FIRE. I gaurantee you're going to have a bad
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99 time.
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100
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101 - use lasers to cut large plasticized brains ::
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102
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103 - gravity telescope the size of the solar system ::
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104
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105 - information bearing layer :: to find the spatial / logical scale of
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106 the main information containing layer of an information storage
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107 device, look at where correlated change happens, and then to see
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108 if it's digital, look beyond that and see if the changes are
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109 uncorrelated.
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110
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111 - sperm fitness correlation :: it's evolutionary advantageous for a
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112 species' sperm to fail to function exactly when the fetus they
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113 would create would fail. But it's really hard to make this
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114 functoinal correlation happen because the sperm cell only
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115 expresses a small subset of the genome. To the extent that thei
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116 correlation effect exists, we can reverse it to find
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117 "interesting" genes. My guess --- look for genes physiccally
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118 next to sperm coding genes.
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119
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120 - spinal repeater/relay :: a VERY fine mesh of directional paths,
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121 much finer than the width of a spinal axon, which can connect a
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122 bundle of nerves that has been cut together.
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123
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124 - auto book ::handwritten by machine; illuminated. Like old medieval
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125 books. Use a model of handwriting so the letters are different.
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126
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127 - url resolver :: pick the longest vaid url that's a rooted substring
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128 of the requested URL. unambigupously corrects for links that
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129 have things like periods and ending parens at the end of a link.
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130
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131 - soul black marble :: for existential threats, what if solu magic
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132 was true, and undertale whatever, destroy the world
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133
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134 - heart preservation + heart bypass to allow time for healing :: you
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135 cryopreserve a heart, then "recondition" it inside the patient
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136 while under bypass to allow time for it to heal.
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137
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138 - intelligent microwave osmium perfusion w/ CAT scan ::
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139
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140 - assembling new word-sounding words by concatenation and random deletion ::
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141
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142 - amber brain preservation? :: would this work, without having to do
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143 the heavy metal bits? Maybe chemical fixation with aldehydes
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144 followed by hot amber and then high pressure for several months?
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145
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146 - zappy fat ::
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147
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148 - electrocaloric effect :: see
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149 https://dx.doi.org/10.1146%2Fannurev-matsci-062910-100341,
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150 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocaloric_effect][wikipedia article]]
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152 - albino fruit ::
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153
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154 - cryoprotectant that increases the nutritional value fo food ::
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156 - faucet enerty :: how much power do you get from an average faucet
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157 compared to the wall socket?
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158
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159 - high pressure fixation :: could this defeat the "myelin unraveling"
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160 problem? Maybe -- if the "unraveling" is actually BUBBLES like
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161 you might get during the bends, caused by the fixation reaction!
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162
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163 - eat fixed tissue :: can you EAT glutaraldehyde preserved tissue, if
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164 you wash away all the free aldehydes and make sure that the
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165 reaction is complete? Can you also cook the tissue? Maybe it
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166 would be good!
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167
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168 - intelligence sorting ::
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169
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170 - hyperbaric fixation :: apparently with divers with the "bends", you
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171 get bubbles in the myelin in particular. Maybe hyperbaric
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172 fixation would be able to eliminate these bubbles!
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173
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174 - blood + cryoprotectant :: might be more gentle than normal things?
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175 Why not use it? (b/c you might need extracellular ion
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176 concentrations), also zeta potentials! But you could filter the
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177 blood, and get a lot from a slaughterhouse perhaps.
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178
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179 - the matrix has a "lord of space" and a "muse of time" ::
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180
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181 - ultra fast fluorocarbon cooling :: perfuse brain w/ cryoprotectant,
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182 cool to -20°C. Then clear out everything w/ fluorocarbon (or
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183 something else that doesn't interact w/ cells and has very low
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184 viscosoty at low temperatures), and then immediately switch to
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185 fluorocarbon at around -135°C. Should very quickly cool the
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186 brain (even faster than persufflation!) and would also avoid the
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187 dehydration problems associated w/ persufflation. Even better,
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188 you have a mechanism for rapidly warming the brain --
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189 immediately switch to warm fluorocarbon. Everything is always
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190 still liquid and pressurized. Should buy you a couple % decrease
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191 in CPA toxicity.
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192
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193 - gameboy IR link over wifi through emilation ::
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194
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195 - living memory is the start of history :: the natural dividing line
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196 is between living and dead history, and is created retroactively
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197 with the advent of brain preservation technology and then
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198 realized by mind uploading. It can still creep forward from
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199 death of individuals. We're still living in pre-history!
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200
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201 - the memory of God is the soul :: mind-uploading + christian
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202 theology ==> the soul falls out nicely from omniscience.
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203
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204 - alternating stir plate :: a magnetic stir bar that alternates back
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205 and forth. Is it more efficient?
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206
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207 - rsync with md5 (or whatever) database :: Now if you're rsync'ing
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208 something over to the server, if the file matches something
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209 already on the server, then it gets copied over from wherever it
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210 is on the server (then each block's signature is checked like
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211 with normal rsync, so that you get exactly the same behaviour).
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212
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213 - mvln :: uses a backing database to gaurantee that when you move a
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214 folder, that all the links that point to it can remain
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215 consistent across your system.
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216
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217 - centrifugal drinking :: spin the bottle around and tubes from the
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218 bottom convey drink up to the top. (don't know why I came up
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219 with this one...)
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220
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221 - DRACOS at single cell stage :: you splice the genes for DRACOS into
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222 a single human cell at the first stage of development. Then all
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223 the cells of the person that cell will eventually become will
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224 automatically produce DRACOS (and the DRACOS will be recognized
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225 as "self" by the immune system. This creates a powerful
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226 secondary immune system which will make the person immune to
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227 almost all viruses.
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228
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229 - toilet + fume hood :: because it's dumb to have the entire bathroom
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230 be a sort of fume hood.
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231
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232 - wind speed force :: two wind socks one weighted. The angle between
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233 them tells you the force of the wind.
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234
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235 - sshfs to mount root :: you can mount your own root filesystem
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236 somewhere else using sshfs. Sort of "normalizes" file
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237 permissions without having to use root, and is weird. Could also
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238 bypass rm =--preserve-root= restrictions and delete entire
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239 filesystem.
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240
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241 #+BEGIN_SRC sh
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242 sshfs root@localhost:/ my-root
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243 #+END_SRC
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244
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245 - not even a nop of damage :: nop == no-op
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246
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247 - twittwe vibratoe ::
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248
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249 - value of cancer :: what of value is lost with an easy cancer-cure?
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250
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251 - blood :: blood is the "wires" that connect organs to each other and
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252 impedance match the services that organs provide to other
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253 organs. A heart, per se, does not need blood but instead access
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254 to the filtering powers of a kidney; blood just connects the
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255 kidney cells to the heart cells. That's why "perfusing w/ blood"
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256 is entirely missing the point.
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257
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258 - armored helmet :: use fiber-optics to re-route vision and get better
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259 shield for eyes. curved plates, kozilek style.
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260
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261 - open source contributions :: way to make them public on your website easily.
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262
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263 - active opto-glove :: for ENHANCED touch! It's a magnyfing glass for
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264 your fingers!
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265
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266 - glove screen :: for driving directions, etc. Better than a watch!
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267
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268 - osmium + sugar as a histo stain :: the suger interacts with the
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269 osmium and retards its progress. you can see details on slices in
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270 a light microscope without any more staining, and the EMs are not
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271 adversely affected.
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272
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273 - encryption camera :: use public key on memory card. The camera
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274 writes files encrypted with this public key.
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275
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276 - immaculate AIDS acquisition ::
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277
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278 - minds and lightspeed :: fastern minds have to deal with lightspeed
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279 limitations in their own cognitive architectures.
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280
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281 - kill with fire :: guy A fires fire blast, with a spell circle to
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282 maintain the magic. Opponent B just GRABS the magic and pulls MORE
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283 fire. Guy A's circle goes out of control and all his life force
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284 gets sucked out to supply more fire. B grabs the magic, crushes
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285 it, fires a concentrated red lightning bolt, and eats the
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286 rest. "You think that you can kill me, WITH FIRE!?"
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287
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288 - magic ekiga ::
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289
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290 - edible crayons ::
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291
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292 - library chaining ::
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293
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294 - hypnosis + that drug that makes you loose continuity :: can the
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295 hypnosos plant things during this time?
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296
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297 - forgotten services :: use "ovbilion" somehow. Some sleeping drugs
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298 make you forget the hour or so before you go to bed. Use this to
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299 create forgotten services.
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300
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301 - dibenzelene -- mike darwin ::
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302
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303 - sleepy perfusion :: if brains naturally expand / contract depending
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304 on resting / awake state, we should investigate the EMs of brains
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305 fixed during "sleep" mode and those fixed during "awake"
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306 mode. (while still using anesthetic of course).
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307
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308 - shit flavored dog treats :: because dogs would probably like them.
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309
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310 - fume hood incense :: so make sure the fume hood is working
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311
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312 - infinity coin :: s.f. concept -- billions are uploaded by using
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313 osmium as a "mind uploading catalyst". osmium is put ino the
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314 brain, they brain is scanned, and the osmium is recycled. Then
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315 you make coins out of the osmium that has gone through billions
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316 of these cycles.
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317
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318 - mamilian dive reflex as a method of preparing organs for cryopreservation ::
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319
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320 - spinal encryption :: like an X server, except your body parts each
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321 run these servers. You all have clocks, and you have to sign your
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322 muscle commands with your private key in order to control your
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323 body.
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324
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325 - suicide note as a mental excercise :: from NPR, ted talk, teenagers, etc.
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326
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327 - microscope clamp magnet ring thing ::
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328
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329 - cup that fills from the bottom ::
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330
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331 - pronouncaeble liscense plates ::
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332
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333 - instant-awake vs natural awakening :: cognitive behavioural
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334 difference tells you important things about the waking process.
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335
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336 - asethetics and personal identity :: if you go to germany, you're not
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337 the same person anymore.
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338
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339 - arch linux diff cache :: should only download differences between
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340 the new package and the most rcent archive file. Can
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341 precalculate. Would make mirrors/upgrading so much faster.
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342
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343 - low gravity perfusion :: then you can use cappaliary action. From
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344 this: http://www.wired.com/2015/01/coffee-cup-designed-let-astronauts-sip-espresso-space/
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345
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346 - rational advertiting :: a new criteria for advertisting -- given
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347 same ad structure for two different produces, what structure
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348 leads to the most people picking the "optimal" choice.
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349
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350 - autoclone bootstrapping :: to breed male with self: you make a clone
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351 of the male that's broken, male and female, the bootstrap with
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352 those gametes
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353
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354 - position independent numbers :: like latin for numbers. You'd use
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355 color, endings, relative size, etc to determine what place the
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356 number has. Very convientnt for order or magnitude calculations.
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357
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358 - dead man switch activated linux user account ::
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359
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360 - embowlement :: condencending reference to embodiment
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361
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362 - water staff :: drinksy walking staff w/ water
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363
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364 - melanin transfection ::
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365
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366 - retention of neurotransmitters / other small molecules during fixation by use of an extracellular polymer such as PVP ::
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367
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368 - machines :: Knowing we are machines does not diminish us; instead it
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369 opens our minds to the awe-inspiring complexity that is the human
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370 mind. Those who prefer to attribute consciousness to a "soul" or
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371 other metaphysical process are the ones who diminish man to a
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372 mere cartoon caricature.
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373
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374 - why does glut change osmotic setpoints in cells :: perhaps either 1)
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375 It makes the membrane permeable to small molecules or 2)
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376 crosslinking proteins means less colagative effects.
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377
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378 - Hemocyanin based blood washout solution :: for artificial blood, it
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379 can be hard to carry enough oxygen because haemoglobin needs to
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380 be in RBCs in order to effectively carry oxygen. However,
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381 hemocyanin, a copper based oxygen carrying protein, doesn't have
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382 this restriction, so it might make particurally good artificial
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383 blood. Might also be great for making oxygenated fixative
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384 solutions! In fact, hemocyanin is more efficient than hemoglobin
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385 for carrying oxygen at low temperatures, perfect for
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386 cooling/blood washout! Hemocyanin could also serve to establish
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387 oncotic pressure in a blood washout solution since it weighs 75
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388 kilodaltons.
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389
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390 - osmotic buffer :: polymer which polymerizes / splits apart in order
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391 to maintain the osmolality of a solution.
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392
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393 - shoes w/ embedded computers :: and have little clickey things you
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394 operate with your big toe.
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395
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396 - gb codec ::
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397
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398 - ultrasonic cell disruptor to make foor ::
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399
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400 - particle accelarator asd an awesome electron microscop ::
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401
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402 - tolouadine blue pen :: use biological stains as dyes for ink pens?
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403
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404 - clock stop explination :: you have a "visual buffer" which needs to
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405 fill up whenever you switch out from one scene to another. This
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406 is the clock stop illusion.
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407
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408 - coffee ad space :: Your coffee stock was brought to you by google,
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409 the only company that brings you comfort and love in your harsh
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410 and heartless corporate world. This is majestic guerrila
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411 marketing.
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412
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413 - geo-synchro browsing :: you get a bunch of proxy servers, and then
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414 you visit websites and synchronize the views from each of these
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415 proxies into one view. Then you can see the differences by
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416 conutry/region. This is a way to experience the "neutral"
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417 internet by averging the effects of ip-tracing.
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418
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419 - periodic table of genders :: arrange people by bahaviour, particular
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420 what sort of bonds they can form with other people.
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421
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422 - ice cream protein synthesis ::
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423
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424 - colored EM :: different heavy metals might possibly have different
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425 intensities for different electron acceleration voltages. So this
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426 could be the basis for colored EM images!
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427
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428 - expansion microscopy dual :: this would be a process where you
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429 define a molecular scale object using larger microscopic
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430 components. Then nanotechnology goes through and replaces each
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431 "atomic macro block" with the appropriate atomic construct. That
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432 way you can use microscopic 3D printing and a special purpose
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433 form of nanotechnolical assembler to create any molecular
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434 arrangement.
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435
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436 - anoxic glut :: what happens when you try to fix tissues in an
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437 environment completely devoid of oxygen?
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438
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439 - copper+EG :: if RBCs are rendered impermeabale to EG when Cu is
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440 present, then maybe you can destroy RBCs by a mixture of EG and
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441 Cu?
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442
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443 - qualia intuition explained :: let's say that you lacked the sense of
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444 smell. How could you learn what "acrid" means without it. How
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445 could you explain it to someone, without analogy to other
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446 smells. We mind-project this real linguistic separation into
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447 reality and get qualia.
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448
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449 - spinal relay :: you have a small air-gapped repeater built into your
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450 spine in order to help with spinal injury, connect with
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451 prosthetics, and to monitor/control your body. Also, you could
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452 add the ability to save "macros"!
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453
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454 - human cysts :: there should be communities of people with varying
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455 enforced separations from the rest of society in order to gaurd
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456 against various catastrophies.
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457
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458 - bioelectric synthesis :: have a device which stores a lot of energy,
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459 and processes blood by creating sugar from waste produces over
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460 the day. You still need water, vitamins, minerals, etc, but this
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461 can handle the bulk of your energy demands and be recharged from
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462 the wall.
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463
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464 - chelation as a method to improve cryoprotectant permeability ::
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465
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466 - transgender fruit analogy :: like tomatoes
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467
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468 - video game controllers as actual controllers :: console controlers
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469 like the n64 trident are excellent, durable tools for fine
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470 control. We should use them to control all sorts of things like
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471 robots by default. You should use it for your projects, since
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472 it's unlikely you'll be able to come up with something
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473 better. Compared to console controllers, the ones we use for
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474 robots/RC stuff are hopelessly clunky.
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475
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476 - bubble computers :: bubble duality, bubble computing
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477
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478 - dark blood bag :: blood bags in hospitals should be dark colored to
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479 protect the blood from damage from light.
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480
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481 - chimeric homozygous sex chromosomes :: chimeric organism with XX and
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482 XX patterns from two males and two females. On average, it has
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483 the correct methylation pattern. Would it work?
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484
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485 - horseshoe blood fixative :: would it work as a washout?
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486
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487 - fixed protein packets :: group of fixed proteins in a network which
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488 is used as medicine. Hemoglovin, maybe?
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489
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490 - prove hauntings :: website where you enter your pgp signed encrypted
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491 file and swear by all the gods that you'll haunt me with the
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492 password when you die, along with whatever other messages you
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493 have. protocol -- I video, throw rock, get password.
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494
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495 - earth air water :: probably all intelligent species name their
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496 planet "dirt" in their language, unless the're aquatic or flying,
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497 then they'd name it "water" and "air" respectively.
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498
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499 - ethylene glycol alt name :: icebane
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500
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501 - overflow hiaku :: a hiku about buffer overflos, with garbage C code
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502 inside.
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503
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504 - white knight :: his sword is named "Privledge" (an inherited family
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505 sword) he rides along the land, defending the code of
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506 chivralirary and keeping the orthodozy of society from fading
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507 from the realm.
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508
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509 - technological deflation :: even the richest robber baron from the
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510 1920's could not afford a cardiac bypass surgery, even with
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511 literally all the money they had. As technology advances, the
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512 price of bread may go up, but the capabilities which money gives
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513 you also dramatically increase.
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514
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515 - cure for color blindness :: could it be possible to administer some
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516 retroviruses via direct injection to the retina, to cause some of
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517 the cells in the retina to begin expressing different color
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518 pigments? The brain ought to easily sort out the rest and enable
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519 color vision. Furthremore, could we add some more colors to
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520 baesline human eyes? Theory -- people who are color blind have
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521 better color spatial accuity for the colors they can see, because
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522 this it the tradeoff here involved with the retrovirus
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523 therapy. Re-purposing color detectors to see new colors at the
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524 expense of spatial acuity for the old set of colors.
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525
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526 - mental integrity test :: if your brain starts to decay, you might
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527 not notice the damage until it's too late. This would be a mental
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528 integrity test that you take every few weeks that measures your
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529 performance and compares it to a baseline. The tests are all
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530 designed to catch the early signs of degenerative brain
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531 diseases. For example, you might use performamce on a
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532 smell-memory assoaction test to detect early-onset Alzheimer's.
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533
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534 - mind bank :: (in contrast to "brain bank")
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535
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536 - Passion of the Christ missed opportunity :: in the Passion of the
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537 Christ, they do the entire show using Latin, Aramaic, etc, with
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538 subtitles. They should have had a part where Jesus does the
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539 sermon on the mount, he turns to the camera, and starts speaking
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540 in English, with no subtitles. It would have been 1.) biblically
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541 accurate and 2.) awesome. It would have been such a powerful
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542 example of Jesus' divinity, and it felt like they were setting up
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543 for it the entire movie, and they missed it!
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544
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545 - scientist online paper reviews ::
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546
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547 - binary feedback ::
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548
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549 - xenobiotic methalation rewriting ::
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550
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551 - trolley cryonics :: change the cryonics protocol around so that the
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552 death occurs in a non-primary action loop.
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553
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554 - binary metric :: you make up new unit names for "2 centimeters", "4
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555 centimeters", "16 centimeters", etc. Then no one will be happy!
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556 BUT, it helps solve metric's problem of intermediate units. (a
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557 centimeter is too small, a meter is too large!)
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558
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559 - physical pgp signatures :: someone should put together the
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560 technologies so that you can digitally sign actual pieces of
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561 paper -- some combination of signing a photograph of the
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562 contract using pgp, printing a barcode or OR code on the page
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563 which links to a website with the signed image, and a web of
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564 trust model so that people can authenticate as themselves. All
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565 this totally exists already, it's just not convienent.
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566
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567 - meta eye :: you wire in a third optical input to the human brain,
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568 but it doesn't tranduce light form the real world, bus instead is
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569 connected to the "internet of things" and shows you metadata
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570 about things you are looking at // serves as an interface to your
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571 own mind and body. Then eventually simply real things without
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572 metadata seem flat and fake compared to the objects in cities and
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573 other annotated areas. This third eye doesn't occupy any of your
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574 normal visual field but actually EXPANDS your visual field.
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575
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576 - do it once -- upload ::
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577
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578 - a simple merge procedure for uploads ::
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579
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580 - limits of monogamy ::
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581
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582 - dream rewinding :: how to record a complete dream without disturbing
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583 it or modifying your brain? you need to be an upload: split
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584 yourself, and one of you stays awake whike the other sleeps. then
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585 you detect a dream in progress by monotoring rapid eye movememt
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586 in your sleeping self, and you wake yourself up every few minutes
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587 and tell yoursef about the dream. Then sleeping-your restarts the
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588 dream, continuation passing style, forgetting everything that was
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589 just said, and you repeat this process until the dream is
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590 over. Then awake-you and sleeping-you merge each other by taking
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591 sleeping-you and replaying the memories of awake-you, and you
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592 write a final report on the dream using the "saccade" reports to
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593 jog your memory.
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594
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595 - denser than osmium :: do the "misicibility" thing with an osmium
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596 alloy to get something even more dense.
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597
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598 - AI hypnosis :: hypnosis might be good for studying AI, becuse it
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599 might probide a "debugger" for ananlyzing the human mind. I
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600 briefly tried this while at MIT, but it needs MUCH more work to
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601 be properly evaulated.
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602
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603 - becomming alive :: upload faces challenges to grow into they type of
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604 person that can join the greater society -- a god. They have to
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605 go though quests that replicate all the things that humanity had
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606 to accomplish, like going to the moon, by themselves, in a
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607 virtual world where they cannot die and never get tired.
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608
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609 - population distorted map of USA :: to see states sizes in terms of #
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610 of people. (already exists!
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611 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/cart/doc/)
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612
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613 - butterfly drone :: if big butterflies used to exist, then maybe we
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614 could make butterfly-inspired drones!
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615
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616 - methylation sex symmetry breaking :: So, human cells have
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617 methylation patterns that encode male/female origin. If you
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618 combine two male patterns, the fetus grows "too fast" and
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619 dies. Two female patterns causes the fetus to enter a "vegatable"
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620 state and fail to develop. Evolutionary biologists will say that
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621 this reflects the asymmetry of energy investement for creating
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622 offspring. If that's true, then species that cast-spawn will lack
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623 this symmetry, and give clues about how to remove it in
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624 humans. If even cast spawners like sea urchins have it, then that
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625 means there's something deeper going on!
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626
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627 - reverse cannulation perfusion :: you put the organ you want to
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628 perfuse in an airtight chamber with a pool of the stuff you want
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629 to perfuse. You cannulate some veins and lead tubes form to
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630 outside of the chamber. You pump in air and perfusate, and the
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631 increasing air pressure in the chamber forces perfusate through
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632 the organ. For times when you don't want to cannulate the inputs
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633 -- they can be ragged, or there can be many of them. You still
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634 have to guide the veins to the outside of the chamber, but
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635 depending on the use case this might be far easier than
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636 tradational cannulation.
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637
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638 - very slow physiological pressure perfusion :: less extreme example
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639 of the "pausing" trick -- just keep the perfusion running and
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640 don't put the perfusion target into the liquid as deep.
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641
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642 - whole brain perfusion embedding :: Do the standard EM embedding
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643 protocol, but skip the osmium step, and use the "perfusion
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644 pausing" method to prevent overextraction during the dehydration
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645 and embedding steps. I think that you CAN perfuse resins into the
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646 brain, simply because you CAN perfuse viscous rubber when doing
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647 vascular casts.
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648
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649 - perfusion pausing :: (Turns out this won't actually work!) One
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650 problem with doing perfusion is that if you STOP the perfusion,
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651 you rapidly loose pressure in the organ as your perfusate leaks
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652 out. You can prevent this by submerging the organ/head/rat
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653 whatever in FLUID at the appropriate level. Use something inert
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654 like flurocarbon to avoid problems. You would have to slowly
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655 decrease the flow rate while simultaneously lowering the
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656 perfusing object into the fluid. To start again, reverse the
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657 process -- reengage the peristaltic pump slowly while removing
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658 the organ from the fluid.
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659
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660 - evoultionary textbook mimiricy :: as surgery becomes more common,
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661 there develops a distinct selective pressure for individuals
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662 organ layout to look more like the medical textbooks! :P
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663
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664 - transparent skin :: temporary / permament transparent skin. Allows
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665 for examination of organs / muscles and visual prevention of
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666 disease and detection or abnormalities / good things
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667 eg. excercise.
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668
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669 - sweet information :: candy with a whole book written in it. Eat a
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670 book!
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671
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672 - targeted immunosuppressant :: just kill off the B-cells and friends
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673 that would cause problems in a organ-transplant / other
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674 situation. AIDS is good at killing these cells -- maybe make it
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675 just target the ones that will cause problems. Then you can
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676 premptively kill off that part of someone's immune system before
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677 a transplant. ALSO, you can kill off everyone's defenses against
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678 other blood types and make people effectively type AB+ w.r.t
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679 blood transfusions. Actually, why not give babies this treatment
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680 so that they're automatically compatable with all blood types?
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681 The immune system has this already when it's first growing; maybe
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682 it can be "retrained" to accept new things, or the mechanism of
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683 immune cell death be co-opted for these purposes.
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684
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rlm@141
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685 - fuck you tetris :: tetris that actively gives you the worst possible piece.
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686
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rlm@140
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687 - pockets :: more things should have them!
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688
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rlm@140
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689 - colored shower head :: a shower head add on that measures the temp
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690 of the water and changes the color of the water streams w/ an LED
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rlm@140
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691 to show you the temperature. That way you can align to the color
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692 you want and see the temperature without feeling it.
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693
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rlm@140
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694 - giant dragonflies :: we could rapidly MAKE giant dragonflies by
|
rlm@140
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695 evolving modern dragonflies in an very oxygen rich environment!
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696
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rlm@140
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697 - anesthetic surgery courtesty video :: as a matter of courtesy,
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rlm@140
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698 whenever you go under anesthetic, the doctors should provide you
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699 with a video of the surgery / recovery after you are concious
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700 again. The recording should begin about 3 minutes before
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701 anesthetic, and continue until both you and the docor agree to
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702 stop recording, or you leave the hospital.
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703
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rlm@140
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704 - whirlpool of light :: shine a laser out into space. But the planet
|
rlm@140
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705 is spinning! What you get is a spiral or light! And as this
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rlm@140
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706 signal expands, does it eventually reveal it's wuantized nature?
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707
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708 - perfusion coking :: EOM
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709
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710 - timestamp verification :: you sign your message, and it has a
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711 timestamp at the top, with a +- percision number. Then you send
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712 it over to the public timestamp server, which only signs the
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713 message if it gets the message within the timestamp window. Or
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714 the computer just signs the message but puts a timestamp at the
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715 beginning. So if everyone trusts the timestamp server, you can
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716 get reliable timestamps, and prove priority on ideas, etc.
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717
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718 - the great computing slow-down :: in general, our computers are
|
rlm@139
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719 getting faster and faster. However, eventually our brains will be
|
rlm@139
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720 made of the same stuff our computers are made of! This has very
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721 interesting consequences -- I can add 2+2 and get four in about a
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722 second. Since my neurons actually work at around 10-60 hertz in
|
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723 parallel, this means that it takes me around 10-30 operations to
|
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724 do this addition. That's actually not bad in terms of computing
|
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725 time. If my neurons were as fast as the latest transitors, then
|
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726 most calculators would be SLOWER than me at adding numbers. Only
|
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727 the newest, most optimized calculators would be faster, and then
|
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728 only about 10 times faster! This means that once we begin to
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729 think at the speed of our technology, that technology will
|
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730 suddenly seem pitifully slow in comparison to how it seems
|
rlm@139
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731 now. And no amount of technical progress will remedy it, because
|
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732 that same progress will also make us all think faster. We'll
|
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733 either have to settle with living in "slow time" to do some
|
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734 computations, or learn to make smarter hardware with special
|
rlm@139
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735 optimizations. But this is actually really hard, because we'll be
|
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736 working with machines that will appear to us about as fast as
|
rlm@139
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737 MECHANICAL computers. So, in the future, all the cool parties
|
rlm@139
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738 will be in cyperspace at vastly accelerated speeds compared to
|
rlm@139
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739 how we exist now. But at these parties, the computers will SUCK!
|
rlm@139
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740 Of course, this is one of the few things that can save us from AI
|
rlm@139
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741 risk, because those AI's won't seem so scary when the're build
|
rlm@139
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742 out of rickety mechanical parts form our perspective.
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743
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rlm@142
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744 - unitary reverse evolution of chaos+minds :: Chaotic systems diverge
|
rlm@139
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745 exponentially in state space. Do you get anything interesting
|
rlm@139
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746 when part of the physical system associated with the chaotic
|
rlm@139
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747 system is a object that performs some sort of computation? Is it
|
rlm@139
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748 possible for the computational system to play a
|
rlm@139
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749 percision-enabling role in determining the final/initial
|
rlm@139
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750 conditions of the chaotic system, just by tracing out thoughts in
|
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751 its decision paths? This is probably too vague of an idea right
|
rlm@139
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752 now, I just wanted to write it down.
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rlm@139
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753
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rlm@138
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754 - microwave time :: the cooking time you enter on most microwaves is
|
rlm@138
|
755 insane. It's expressed in what I call a "hybrid base", a
|
rlm@138
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756 combination of base 10 and base 60. You can get absurd things
|
rlm@138
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757 like 100 < 61, and 120 == 80! I wonder if these hybrid base
|
rlm@138
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758 systems could be very useful for some purposes!
|
rlm@138
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759
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rlm@138
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760 - three-eyes :: if you had three eyes, would you still draw cubes like
|
rlm@138
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761 we currently draw them? Or would all 2D-representations of 3D
|
rlm@138
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762 space always look hopelessly fake?
|
rlm@138
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763
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764 - visual taste/smell assay :: get a grid of bacteria, each expressing
|
rlm@138
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765 a human taste/smell receptor linked to some sort of fluorscent
|
rlm@138
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766 activity or ion pump. Use a camera / electrical grid to transduce
|
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767 the smell / taste signal into bits!
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rlm@138
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768
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rlm@138
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769 - carabiner mushroom lock :: you can take a trapazodial carabiner and
|
rlm@138
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770 make it so that a chain link is caught between the wide end of
|
rlm@138
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771 the carabiner and another chain attached to the carabiner.
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rlm@138
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772
|
rlm@138
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773 - children's tool shop :: I think that kids should be provided with
|
rlm@138
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774 tool shops -- these would be nice sheds with a good collection of
|
rlm@138
|
775 tools to do various things -- circuit components and soldering
|
rlm@138
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776 irons, wires, a small lathe, drill press, belt sander, a
|
rlm@138
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777 centrifuge, microscope, and telescope, etc. The idea is that the
|
rlm@138
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778 kid can now think, "I could use X to do this thing that I'm
|
rlm@138
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779 thinking about" -- the building becomes an extension of the kid's
|
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780 body & mind.
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781
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rlm@138
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782 - fluid display :: like the previous idea about matching refractances
|
rlm@138
|
783 between glass and liquid, except you make a lot of
|
rlm@138
|
784 switchable glass tubes in various patterns in the
|
rlm@138
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785 glass, and actively pump colored liquid through the
|
rlm@138
|
786 tubes (the tubes have glass-like fluid in them by
|
rlm@138
|
787 default.) The result is that you can cause the
|
rlm@138
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788 tubes to appear and dissappear, and vary their
|
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789 colors as well!
|
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790
|
rlm@137
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791 - immunoincompatibility :: take the human genome, and refactor it so
|
rlm@137
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792 that it doesn't use a particular codon at all. Then remove the
|
rlm@137
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793 support from our ribosomes for that codon. What does this do for
|
rlm@137
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794 us? It makes us immune to almost all viruses!
|
rlm@137
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795
|
rlm@137
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796 - life cycle :: it's called a cycle, right? So, the thing that repeats
|
rlm@137
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797 itself over and over, right? Not much of a cycle if
|
rlm@137
|
798 you don't come back after you die, if you ask me!
|
rlm@137
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799
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rlm@137
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800 - car with no blind spots :: use some cameras in the back of the car
|
rlm@137
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801 to augment the rear-view mirror so that you never have to turn
|
rlm@137
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802 around in order to lane change.
|
rlm@137
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803
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rlm@137
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804 - partial cell death :: you freeze a set of cells using some cryo
|
rlm@137
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805 protocol and 60% survive. How can this be explained? It seems to
|
rlm@137
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806 me that if the cells are the same, and the conditions
|
rlm@137
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807 homogoneous, then all the cells should either die or
|
rlm@137
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808 live. However, suppose that there is a metabolic cycle that needs
|
rlm@137
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809 to be in a certain phase for the cell to survive. If the cells
|
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810 are asynchronous, then you might end up with some cells dying
|
rlm@137
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811 because there were in the wrong part of their cycle. This implies
|
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812 that you might be able to cryoprotect cells by causing them to
|
rlm@137
|
813 enter a certain metabolic mode before freezing.
|
rlm@137
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814
|
rlm@137
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815 - cryonics color appeal :: perfusate used by cryonics companies should
|
rlm@137
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816 have red food coloring in it. It's just a nice touch so that the
|
rlm@137
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817 cryonics patient looks more life-like than with clear CPAs, and
|
rlm@137
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818 hopefully might get treated with more respect.
|
rlm@137
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819
|
rlm@137
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820 - paramagnetic CPA :: you take a CPA that can be influenced by
|
rlm@137
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821 magnetic fields so that its degrees of freedom are limited. Then,
|
rlm@137
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822 you release the field, instantaly increasing the size of the
|
rlm@137
|
823 state space of the system and dramatically decreasing the
|
rlm@137
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824 temperature enough to plunge the system past homogenous
|
rlm@137
|
825 nucleation temperature and directly to the glass transition
|
rlm@137
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826 temperature, creating a doubly unstable glass at much lower CPA
|
rlm@137
|
827 concentrations than possible at conventional CPA concentrations.
|
rlm@137
|
828
|
rlm@137
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829 - room temp noodles :: how does the physics of cooking noodles work?
|
rlm@137
|
830 Could you use a vacuum instead of heat to force water into the
|
rlm@137
|
831 noodle?
|
rlm@137
|
832
|
rlm@137
|
833 - personal carbon offset :: feel bad about contribuiting to global
|
rlm@137
|
834 warming by using electricity / driving a car? Forget trying to
|
rlm@137
|
835 "conserve" or "minimize your carbon footprint". Follow the
|
rlm@137
|
836 Platinum rule -- make the world BETTER off than you found it!
|
rlm@137
|
837 This would be a small, self contained system that sucks C02 out
|
rlm@137
|
838 of the air. It uses electricity, but it's so efficient at
|
rlm@137
|
839 removing CO2 that it more than offsets the CO2 produced by even a
|
rlm@137
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840 coal plant to produce that electricity. This way, you can still
|
rlm@137
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841 drive even a gas guzzler, but have a net negative carbon
|
rlm@137
|
842 footprint! Maybe something cool could be done with the carbon as
|
rlm@137
|
843 well. Use as much electricity as you want, but negate the damage
|
rlm@137
|
844 to the enviroment with more technology.
|
rlm@137
|
845
|
rlm@137
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846 - undoing spermogenesis :: with enough sperm, you can derive the
|
rlm@137
|
847 donor's entire genome. You gain more confidence in the alleles
|
rlm@137
|
848 for a particular gene the more sperm you have. Each additional
|
rlm@137
|
849 sperm gives you the same sort of information you'd get flipping a
|
rlm@137
|
850 coin and trying to decide whether the coin is H/T of H/H. Is
|
rlm@137
|
851 there enough sperm in the the average load for you to be as
|
rlm@137
|
852 confident as mitosis?
|
rlm@137
|
853
|
rlm@136
|
854 - mars life :: we could engineer life that could survive on mars
|
rlm@136
|
855 (probably some non-vascular photosynthetic
|
rlm@136
|
856 poikilohydric creature like a lichen) by taking an
|
rlm@136
|
857 extremophile from Antarctica and evolving it in
|
rlm@136
|
858 increasingly Martian conditions. This could be an easy
|
rlm@136
|
859 start to a terraforming process.
|
rlm@136
|
860
|
rlm@134
|
861 - problem with Aubrey de Grey's ideas :: Aubrey de Grey says that we
|
rlm@134
|
862 might be able to live forever by continually repairing our bodies
|
rlm@134
|
863 at the cellular level -- he details 7 different mechanisms of
|
rlm@134
|
864 damage and says that if all of them are dealt with /together/
|
rlm@134
|
865 that it would stop aging. (You can't miss even one because
|
rlm@134
|
866 they're all fatal.) However, it doesn't take into account that
|
rlm@134
|
867 we are also beings of information and that there is a very real
|
rlm@134
|
868 software component to our existence. Even if our biological
|
rlm@134
|
869 chassies can be maintained forever, I think it is unlikely that
|
rlm@134
|
870 our minds will operate well far outside of the design constraints
|
rlm@134
|
871 that we've evolved to handle. Say I programmed a webserver with
|
rlm@134
|
872 the express goal of it being able to serve webpages for month on
|
rlm@134
|
873 some stock server. I'll do fairly rigorous testing to make sure
|
rlm@134
|
874 that it can handle the expected load then then some. Now say that
|
rlm@134
|
875 you want to keep a particular instance of this webserver running
|
rlm@134
|
876 indefinitely. (The program instance is like your mind and the
|
rlm@134
|
877 computer it's running on is like your body). You might very well
|
rlm@134
|
878 be able to keep the physical computer infrastructure running for
|
rlm@134
|
879 forever by replacing hard drives / ram / CPUs, etc. However,
|
rlm@134
|
880 since I designed the webserver to work for a month, it probably
|
rlm@135
|
881 has memory leaks, rare stochastic bugs, or other built in limits
|
rlm@134
|
882 / constraints (think log files or some date rollover shenanigans)
|
rlm@135
|
883 that will ultimately kill the webserver even with eternally
|
rlm@134
|
884 perfect hardware. Do you really expect that a webserver
|
rlm@135
|
885 engineered to work for 1 month will run for 10 years without
|
rlm@135
|
886 catastrophically crashing? Not even Apache can do this! In fact,
|
rlm@135
|
887 if I put in the extreme effort to make it that robust, I've
|
rlm@135
|
888 wasted time that I could have spent on other projects by pursuing
|
rlm@135
|
889 an unnecessary engineering goal. Likewise, human minds have only
|
rlm@134
|
890 ever run for at most 122 years before they are destroyed due to
|
rlm@134
|
891 hardware degradation. Fixing the hardware doesn't change any
|
rlm@134
|
892 software bugs that are almost certainly present in the human
|
rlm@134
|
893 mind. Think of all the pathological things that can go wrong with
|
rlm@134
|
894 a webserver, multiply it by a million, and that likely how
|
rlm@134
|
895 evolution has designed our minds. For example, consider memory :
|
rlm@134
|
896 why should you expect that we have evolved the ability to
|
rlm@134
|
897 coherently organize memories past say 150 years? There's been
|
rlm@134
|
898 absolutely no selective pressure for this ability, so you can bet
|
rlm@134
|
899 that if there's any fitness to be gained from not having
|
rlm@134
|
900 unlimited memory potential (such as better metabolic efficiency),
|
rlm@134
|
901 we have it! You might think that maybe we would just forget
|
rlm@134
|
902 things the same way that we sort of forget things that happen
|
rlm@134
|
903 earlier in our lives, but complicated information processing
|
rlm@134
|
904 systems don't have to fail gracefully when they're pushed far
|
rlm@134
|
905 past their design constraints. A 150 year old person is just as
|
rlm@134
|
906 likely to suffer a catastrophic psychosis due to software
|
rlm@134
|
907 limitations associated with memory as he is to do something with
|
rlm@134
|
908 all those memories we might consider reasonable. More likely, in
|
rlm@134
|
909 fact, since there are so very many ways for a complicated
|
rlm@134
|
910 software system to break and so few ways for it to run
|
rlm@134
|
911 successfully. Therefore, I think Aubrey de Grey's "hardware-only"
|
rlm@134
|
912 approach is missing a very important component of longevity
|
rlm@134
|
913 science, and any successful effort to make people live orders of
|
rlm@134
|
914 magnitude longer than they do naturally will need to deal with
|
rlm@134
|
915 people's software as well as their hardware.
|
rlm@134
|
916
|
rlm@133
|
917 - validating neurocryopreservation :: Problem : you want to test
|
rlm@133
|
918 whether a brain is functionally preserved through vitrification,
|
rlm@133
|
919 but you don't want to figure out how to preserve all the other
|
rlm@133
|
920 organs in the animal. It might be possible to keep the rest of
|
rlm@133
|
921 the body at almost 0C and vitrify just the head for only a few
|
rlm@133
|
922 minutes. Induce hypothermia, then separate out the head's blood
|
rlm@133
|
923 supply from the rest of the body, then just cryoptotect and
|
rlm@133
|
924 vitrify the head. Might need some sort of thermal guard to keep
|
rlm@133
|
925 the outer head / neck from becoming too cold. You leave the
|
rlm@133
|
926 spinal cord intact! Then you devitrify to 0C, remove
|
rlm@133
|
927 cryoprotectant, and then reattach the blood supply. You can
|
rlm@133
|
928 determine brain preservation using behavioral assays!
|
rlm@133
|
929
|
rlm@133
|
930 - freezing water purifier :: you slowly freeze water, but also run
|
rlm@133
|
931 liquid water over the frozen mass. This takes away basically all
|
rlm@133
|
932 impurities and creates "washed ice" then you melt the ice. Maybe
|
rlm@133
|
933 you could re-use the heat from creating the ice to melt the ice?
|
rlm@133
|
934
|
rlm@133
|
935 - ultra strength :: allow a person to visualize their muscle
|
rlm@133
|
936 recruitment patterns. Give them adrenaline and let
|
rlm@133
|
937 them feel what it's like to have the normal limits
|
rlm@133
|
938 removed. See if they can replicate the effects.
|
rlm@133
|
939
|
rlm@133
|
940 - phone names :: make a PX record for domain names that's like the MX
|
rlm@133
|
941 record, except that it is a phone number instead of
|
rlm@133
|
942 an IP address. That way, you can use the domain name
|
rlm@133
|
943 registration system to provide names for phone
|
rlm@133
|
944 numbers. Then, as long as you control the domain, you
|
rlm@133
|
945 can point people to your current phone number by
|
rlm@133
|
946 updating that record.
|
rlm@133
|
947
|
rlm@133
|
948 - edible flowers :: Edible white flowers that you put in a colored
|
rlm@133
|
949 solution with flavor. When the flower turns the
|
rlm@133
|
950 right color, it is also flavored and ready to eat!
|
rlm@133
|
951
|
rlm@131
|
952 - suicide cryonics :: according to [[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/magazine/06suicide-t.html][this]], people who commit impulsive
|
rlm@131
|
953 suicides have a newfound sense of the importance of life. Perhaps
|
rlm@131
|
954 they are good cryonics targets.
|
rlm@131
|
955
|
rlm@131
|
956 - lead bone :: Could you fill in all the empty spaces in a bone with
|
rlm@131
|
957 lead? Might be cool.
|
rlm@131
|
958
|
rlm@131
|
959 - the quest for life :: Every stupid story has the "immortal who
|
rlm@131
|
960 wants to become mortal" or some other such idea. I want to story
|
rlm@131
|
961 where the protagonist loses their immortality and feels /angry/
|
rlm@131
|
962 and ashamed about losing something that's so absolutely crucial
|
rlm@131
|
963 to their identity. A reverse of "death makes life worth living",
|
rlm@131
|
964 they feel that living forever is what makes life worth
|
rlm@131
|
965 living. Now they've "lost their sunrise" or their "connection to
|
rlm@131
|
966 the timeless universe" or something. So they go on a quest to get
|
rlm@131
|
967 it back, learning about themselves along the way, and regaining
|
rlm@131
|
968 the precious thing they lost in the beginning.
|
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|
969
|
rlm@130
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970 - world-map :: take a small table and paint the continents in
|
rlm@130
|
971 toothpaste on the table. Make a slightly raised barrier
|
rlm@130
|
972 around the table. Slowly pour water onto the table, and
|
rlm@130
|
973 it will form the oceans!
|
rlm@130
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974
|
rlm@95
|
975 - stage magic rituals :: rituals should incorporate elements of stage
|
rlm@95
|
976 magic. Foe example in Teller's tempest, they have a scene where
|
rlm@95
|
977 they levitate a crown in front of someone, then put it on his
|
rlm@95
|
978 head. They also have a wedding ceremony where they levitated the
|
rlm@95
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979 bride as well. Actual weddings and other ceremonies should
|
rlm@95
|
980 incorporate stage magic as an enhancement.
|
rlm@95
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981
|
rlm@95
|
982 - isotope time dilation :: use a cyclotron to speed up rare isotopes
|
rlm@95
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983 developed in nuclear fusion experiments. The relativistic time
|
rlm@95
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984 dilation will stop the isotopes from decaying, and allow time to
|
rlm@95
|
985 study them. This is based on radioactive isotopes that fall
|
rlm@95
|
986 through the earth's atmosphere that take hundreds of times
|
rlm@95
|
987 longer to decay than normal.
|
rlm@95
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988
|
rlm@95
|
989 - marsupial stimulation :: You take a freshly pouched marsupial baby,
|
rlm@95
|
990 and show it videos and other interactive things while it matures
|
rlm@95
|
991 in the pouch. What mental effects would this have?
|
rlm@95
|
992
|
rlm@135
|
993 - dynamic re-keying :: Some older ways of tuning instruments sound
|
rlm@95
|
994 better, but we use the even-tempered scale today because it makes
|
rlm@95
|
995 it easier to switch keys. With electronic music, why not make
|
rlm@95
|
996 key-annotations and dynamically re-tune the piece to sound good
|
rlm@135
|
997 in the current key? Could be done as a midi+annotation -> midi
|
rlm@95
|
998 compiler for experimentation.
|
rlm@95
|
999
|
rlm@95
|
1000 - death always implies damage :: is is possible for a corpse to differ
|
rlm@95
|
1001 from a living person only in the fact that one is dead and the
|
rlm@95
|
1002 other is alive? NO! A corpse must always have some sort of
|
rlm@95
|
1003 molecular damage which causes the loss of function!
|
rlm@95
|
1004
|
rlm@95
|
1005 - inner eye :: Surgically install a bunch of tiny cameras inside a
|
rlm@95
|
1006 person. Then, you can activate them all and get a
|
rlm@95
|
1007 picture of your internal organs for diagnostic
|
rlm@95
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1008 purposes.
|
rlm@95
|
1009
|
rlm@135
|
1010 - chaos rails :: should make a visualization of the homoclinic tangle,
|
rlm@95
|
1011 it's truly beautiful.
|
rlm@95
|
1012
|
rlm@95
|
1013 - context gobbler :: this would be in "inside-out macro" that takes
|
rlm@95
|
1014 the context (like you use for things like error, continuations,
|
rlm@95
|
1015 and friends) and transforms it to something else. Maybe useful?
|
rlm@95
|
1016
|
rlm@91
|
1017 - cryonics middle ages :: some people say that cryonics is an
|
rlm@91
|
1018 experiment and that it is foolish to wait until we have revived a
|
rlm@91
|
1019 human. There is a middle ground where the procedure has a dismal
|
rlm@91
|
1020 success rate on humans, say 1 in 20, so that you'd be a fool to
|
rlm@91
|
1021 try revival. Nonetheless, this very risky procedure could be the
|
rlm@91
|
1022 legal proof of concept needed to create a new class of life
|
rlm@91
|
1023 between "living" and "dead": "stasis".
|
rlm@91
|
1024
|
rlm@91
|
1025 - philosophy of the mirror :: neat thought experiment -- if you take a
|
rlm@91
|
1026 mirror of someone by actually reversing a person's chirality
|
rlm@94
|
1027 molecule by molecule, then will the only be able to read mirror
|
rlm@91
|
1028 writing? The answer is yes, by analogy to a purely mechanical
|
rlm@94
|
1029 scan-tron device. This is one of the only interesting transforms I
|
rlm@91
|
1030 know that can take a human brain and change it in subtle,
|
rlm@91
|
1031 non-destructive ways. It's also an argument against dualism.
|
rlm@91
|
1032
|
rlm@91
|
1033 - biosphere in a bottle :: There are around 15 million species. 15
|
rlm@91
|
1034 million stem cells will fill only a tiny size, far less than a cubic
|
rlm@91
|
1035 inch. Preserve a single cell from every species on earth in this
|
rlm@91
|
1036 small space, and you will have a record of our current biosphere
|
rlm@91
|
1037 that can be protected. "Hold the genetic data of all species in
|
rlm@92
|
1038 your hand!"
|
rlm@91
|
1039
|
rlm@90
|
1040 - chaos lock :: The "arrow of time" points in the direction of
|
rlm@90
|
1041 increasing entropy. The time evolution of chaotic
|
rlm@90
|
1042 systems depend exquisitely on their initial state. If
|
rlm@90
|
1043 you take a measurement of a chaotic system at any
|
rlm@90
|
1044 given point of time, you can evolve that system
|
rlm@90
|
1045 backwards or forwards based on your measurement. So
|
rlm@90
|
1046 let's say you start the chaotic system in a VERY low
|
rlm@90
|
1047 entropy state, then let it run for a while, then take
|
rlm@90
|
1048 a measurement with some uncertainty. Your
|
rlm@90
|
1049 measurement is pretty good, but obviously not
|
rlm@90
|
1050 PERFECT. If you evolve the chaotic system back in
|
rlm@90
|
1051 time, then you will see that you don't really reach
|
rlm@90
|
1052 a state with low entropy an hour before (the entropy
|
rlm@90
|
1053 is easy to measure with surrogates like alignment,
|
rlm@90
|
1054 etc). So use this technique to SEARCH for a more
|
rlm@90
|
1055 accurate measurement! This potentially can give you
|
rlm@90
|
1056 many more orders of magnitude than you could get alone
|
rlm@90
|
1057 just using an instrument. Sometimes it will give you
|
rlm@90
|
1058 bad results, the the odds of it doing that are
|
rlm@90
|
1059 infinitesimal, and you can just measure a couple of
|
rlm@90
|
1060 times.
|
rlm@90
|
1061
|
rlm@90
|
1062 - cryo-evolution :: perhaps there would be a way to rapidly evolve a
|
rlm@90
|
1063 symbiotic bacterial organism that could protect
|
rlm@90
|
1064 human tissues from freezing damage.
|
rlm@90
|
1065
|
rlm@87
|
1066 - suicide parasite :: sometimes, people kill themselves for no good
|
rlm@87
|
1067 reason. We often explain this with things like "hidden
|
rlm@87
|
1068 depression" or we say that they had something like chronic jaw or
|
rlm@87
|
1069 back pain. I think that smells of rationalization. I don't buy
|
rlm@87
|
1070 it. I propose that in many suicide cases there is a disease that
|
rlm@88
|
1071 causes the suicidal behavior. We already know that certain
|
rlm@87
|
1072 parasites have mind-bending properties in other animals, even
|
rlm@87
|
1073 mammals like mice. It's not much of a stretch to imagine a
|
rlm@88
|
1074 parasite that causes suicides in humans. Some problems:
|
rlm@87
|
1075 - What does the suicide parasite get out of it? :: This might be
|
rlm@87
|
1076 answered by the whole thing being a glitch caused by
|
rlm@87
|
1077 cross-species contamination. Toxoplasma works this way.
|
rlm@88
|
1078 - What predictions does a disease model make :: suicide should
|
rlm@88
|
1079 be more common among people who share a contagion
|
rlm@88
|
1080 vector. There should be suicides that don't make any
|
rlm@87
|
1081 sense : people who weren't really depressed, who had no
|
rlm@87
|
1082 reason to kill themselves. People who have killed themselves
|
rlm@87
|
1083 should have a higher incidence of some unknown parasite in
|
rlm@87
|
1084 their brains.
|
rlm@86
|
1085
|
rlm@89
|
1086 - domestic insects :: People should eat more bugs because they're much
|
rlm@89
|
1087 more efficient, so why not do some major domestication research
|
rlm@94
|
1088 to make very appealing bugs? Beetles, in particular, seem to be
|
rlm@94
|
1089 excellent targets for domestication because they have extreme
|
rlm@94
|
1090 levels of genetic malleability.
|
rlm@87
|
1091
|
rlm@87
|
1092 - birth-clones :: What if each person was intentionally split at birth
|
rlm@87
|
1093 into a normal embryo and a few "backup" cells which
|
rlm@87
|
1094 is then frozen. The backup cells are created just
|
rlm@87
|
1095 the same way as natural identical twins. The backups
|
rlm@88
|
1096 can be used to regenerate organs. etc. Also, it
|
rlm@87
|
1097 would be a good sci fi concept, because you could
|
rlm@87
|
1098 have a culture where people reward people who were
|
rlm@87
|
1099 especially awesome are "reborn" from their
|
rlm@88
|
1100 backups. Imagine having a young Bach every
|
rlm@87
|
1101 generation, etc.
|
rlm@86
|
1102
|
rlm@94
|
1103 - pronunciation guide :: a simple webpage where you type in a word and
|
rlm@94
|
1104 it returns a simple, English sentence describing exactly how to
|
rlm@84
|
1105 pronounce the word. For people who don't want to learn IPA.
|
rlm@86
|
1106
|
rlm@87
|
1107 - cortex-search :: use the repertoire of actions learned to limit the
|
rlm@87
|
1108 search space of possible actions.
|
rlm@87
|
1109
|
rlm@83
|
1110 - learning to teleport :: scifi idea, this is a story about a person
|
rlm@83
|
1111 who is struggling with his/her society's ideas about
|
rlm@83
|
1112 teleportation. It's considered a fundamental part of being a
|
rlm@83
|
1113 member of that society (after all, the difference between animals
|
rlm@83
|
1114 and humans is that humans are creatures of pure information while
|
rlm@83
|
1115 animals are burdened with base matter, "that's how you travel the
|
rlm@83
|
1116 stars, etc") Humans are born normally, grow up, and then
|
rlm@83
|
1117 eventually transcend via destructive upload. Analogies to jumping
|
rlm@83
|
1118 off a diving board into a pool (which I simply /could not do/ for
|
rlm@83
|
1119 a long time), etc.
|
rlm@83
|
1120
|
rlm@87
|
1121 - no-float-ice :: cup that has cross beams at the bottom where ice
|
rlm@87
|
1122 forms. Then when you drink liquid from the glass,
|
rlm@87
|
1123 the ice stays at the bottom and doesn't hit your
|
rlm@87
|
1124 lips. For bars and fancy things.
|
rlm@87
|
1125
|
rlm@82
|
1126 - bitcoins for immigrants :: A common case with Mexican immigrants
|
rlm@82
|
1127 (illegal or not) is that they want to send money they've earned
|
rlm@82
|
1128 in the US back to their families in Mexico. They currently do this
|
rlm@82
|
1129 through things like Money Gram or Western Union, and they get
|
rlm@82
|
1130 fleeced in the process with fees. Bitcoin could greatly reduce
|
rlm@82
|
1131 the cost of sending money from America to Mexico, but I don't
|
rlm@82
|
1132 believe that it's currently used for that among Mexican
|
rlm@82
|
1133 immigrants currently due to lack of knowledge. I bet you could
|
rlm@82
|
1134 set up physical locations like those obnoxious Western Union huts
|
rlm@82
|
1135 in places like Texas, Arizona, etc, and greatly undercut
|
rlm@82
|
1136 them. Or, perhaps some educational seminars about bitcoin might
|
rlm@82
|
1137 be in order. There's some money to be made there because there is
|
rlm@82
|
1138 great demand, and it's a good thing to boot!
|
rlm@82
|
1139
|
rlm@81
|
1140 - reverse eye-tracking :: A painting that is actually a digital screen
|
rlm@82
|
1141 with a camera. It records people's eye tracks permanently. It's
|
rlm@81
|
1142 "artistic" because paintings are normally these things that you
|
rlm@81
|
1143 look at without changing, but this one is changed the second you
|
rlm@81
|
1144 look at it, recording where /you/ looked forever for others to
|
rlm@81
|
1145 see. Make it be a painting of a woman and see the trolling as the
|
rlm@81
|
1146 breasts and groin area light up with interest from all the males
|
rlm@81
|
1147 passing by.
|
rlm@81
|
1148
|
rlm@80
|
1149 - smart toilets :: Instead of using indirect measures like infrared
|
rlm@80
|
1150 detectors of the presence of a person, use computer
|
rlm@80
|
1151 vision to directly measure whether the toilet needs
|
rlm@80
|
1152 to be flushed. I think a lot of things will end up
|
rlm@80
|
1153 going this way as we get better computer vision.
|
rlm@80
|
1154
|
rlm@77
|
1155 - validate chemopreservation :: chemopreservation is difficult to
|
rlm@77
|
1156 validate because it destroys the functionality of a brain, and
|
rlm@77
|
1157 brain simulation will take a long time to mature as a
|
rlm@77
|
1158 technology. However, one very powerful way to validate
|
rlm@77
|
1159 chemopreservation would be to have a person/animal learn
|
rlm@77
|
1160 something with high complexity such as a number or the solution
|
rlm@80
|
1161 to a maze, or a flashbulb memory. Then you preserve their brain
|
rlm@80
|
1162 chemically, slice it up, and read /that specific memory/ from the
|
rlm@77
|
1163 detailed brain scan. Much more difficult, but much more doable.
|
rlm@77
|
1164
|
rlm@75
|
1165 - candy screw :: edible candy screw with candy nuts that you can screw
|
rlm@75
|
1166 as well.
|
rlm@76
|
1167
|
rlm@74
|
1168 - better bibliography :: when writing a thesis or paper, have the
|
rlm@80
|
1169 bibliography not just be an opaque list of resources, but have it
|
rlm@74
|
1170 be a list of /summaries/ and /qualities/ that each paper has in
|
rlm@80
|
1171 the context of the paper being written. When examining a
|
rlm@80
|
1172 bibliography, I want to know if reading the papers in the
|
rlm@74
|
1173 bibliography are worth my time, and I also am probably also
|
rlm@74
|
1174 interested in exactly the things that are being discussed in the
|
rlm@74
|
1175 paper I'm reading. The bibliography is the perfect place to
|
rlm@74
|
1176 provide information about the referenced papers from the
|
rlm@80
|
1177 author's perspective. I will use this biographic form in my own
|
rlm@74
|
1178 thesis.
|
rlm@74
|
1179
|
rlm@73
|
1180 - digital inter-library loan :: libraries at universities already do
|
rlm@80
|
1181 inter-library loans for books, so why not do the same for access
|
rlm@73
|
1182 to stupid paywalled digital papers? All the universities could
|
rlm@73
|
1183 allow access to articles for registered students to all the files
|
rlm@73
|
1184 available through any participating university. This could be
|
rlm@73
|
1185 achieved by sending requests through proxies at participating
|
rlm@73
|
1186 universities. Each university would decide who at the university
|
rlm@73
|
1187 can access the proxy network. Access to the proxy network could
|
rlm@73
|
1188 be made easy using something like http://libx.org/.
|
rlm@73
|
1189
|
rlm@72
|
1190 - chess visual :: to show the vast size of the game trees considered
|
rlm@72
|
1191 by computers, show two people playing chess in a
|
rlm@72
|
1192 void. They are floating in space, and there is a
|
rlm@72
|
1193 simple chess board between them. Then, as they play,
|
rlm@72
|
1194 the game tree's they are considering are drawn
|
rlm@72
|
1195 behind him. The root of the tree starts centered in
|
rlm@72
|
1196 their heads or whatever they use to think, and the
|
rlm@72
|
1197 tree grows out from behind, never crossing the
|
rlm@72
|
1198 dividing plane between the two players. Each
|
rlm@72
|
1199 player's tree is a different color. As they grow,
|
rlm@72
|
1200 there are animations for pruning, etc. Eventually,
|
rlm@72
|
1201 they look like the hemispheres of a brain, wings,
|
rlm@72
|
1202 etc. A human's tree might occasionally have a long
|
rlm@72
|
1203 chain, while the computer tree would be more
|
rlm@72
|
1204 uniform. You could compare deep blue and a modern
|
rlm@72
|
1205 laptop. Use actual data when fighting two computers!
|
rlm@72
|
1206
|
rlm@71
|
1207 - time verification :: some standard way to verify that some piece of
|
rlm@71
|
1208 data was recorded at a specific time. Might involve a time
|
rlm@73
|
1209 server, a key for each time period, something like that.
|
rlm@71
|
1210
|
rlm@70
|
1211 - tamper proof gold bars :: [[http://www.tungsten-alloy.com/gold-plated-tungsten-alloy-bar.html][this site]] offers gold plated tungsten bars
|
rlm@70
|
1212 as "novelty" items. One reason to prefer coins is because they
|
rlm@70
|
1213 are much harder to counterfeit because there is less surface area
|
rlm@70
|
1214 to mass ratio. However, gold bars are still a great design
|
rlm@70
|
1215 because they can hold a lot of value in a small space. A gold bar
|
rlm@70
|
1216 could be given the same protections (and more) that gold coins
|
rlm@70
|
1217 have to offer by changing it into a "gold book", which would have
|
rlm@70
|
1218 hundreds of "pages" of gold bound together. This could be
|
rlm@70
|
1219 implemented with multiple steel rods going through the book which
|
rlm@70
|
1220 can be removed, or some more classier mechanism for holding the
|
rlm@70
|
1221 pages. The point is that the bar can be EASILY subdivided (and
|
rlm@70
|
1222 people would perform this test before buying), thus guaranteeing
|
rlm@70
|
1223 it's authenticity.
|
rlm@70
|
1224
|
rlm@68
|
1225 - aurellem shirt :: I should make an aurellem star symbol tee-shirt.
|
rlm@68
|
1226
|
rlm@86
|
1227 - touch vision :: inspired by GelSight, I want to reexamine cortex and
|
rlm@86
|
1228 see if I could implement touch as a very low range
|
rlm@86
|
1229 form of vision.
|
rlm@86
|
1230
|
rlm@67
|
1231 - high school science :: this is a lesson in scientific ethics. The
|
rlm@67
|
1232 goal is to calculate /g/, the local gravitational
|
rlm@67
|
1233 acceleration. The students are told that the textbook says it's
|
rlm@67
|
1234 /exactly/ 9.81 before they start the experiment. See how they
|
rlm@67
|
1235 doctor their results to get closer to the textbook value. It's
|
rlm@67
|
1236 neat because for any given school, /g/ is probably *not* exactly
|
rlm@67
|
1237 equal to 9.81, because that is just an average!
|
rlm@67
|
1238
|
rlm@67
|
1239 - opencourseware subtitles :: there are ladies who type up lectures
|
rlm@67
|
1240 while they are being given. These recordings should be kept and
|
rlm@67
|
1241 given to OCW for subtitles. If the timestamps of keys are
|
rlm@67
|
1242 recorded, then it is easy to make subtitles.
|
rlm@67
|
1243
|
rlm@66
|
1244 - screen locking timing :: you use your computer camera to see if you
|
rlm@66
|
1245 are sitting in front of the computer. If you are, then the screen
|
rlm@66
|
1246 will never lock. If you are, then the screen will lock with a
|
rlm@67
|
1247 30-40 second timeout. It's an extension of using inactivity to
|
rlm@66
|
1248 initiate the countdown, just with more information.
|
rlm@66
|
1249
|
rlm@66
|
1250 - mirror toilet :: a toilet with a square basin made or mirror instead
|
rlm@67
|
1251 or porcelain. That way, you can see how good of a
|
rlm@66
|
1252 wipe job you have done / watch how your excretion
|
rlm@66
|
1253 system works.
|
rlm@66
|
1254
|
rlm@80
|
1255 - test dummies :: why don't we clone anencephalic humans and use then to
|
rlm@62
|
1256 test /in vivo/ human organ systems and drugs? It
|
rlm@62
|
1257 would be ethical as long as there are women who are
|
rlm@62
|
1258 willing to host the clones, and it would be a
|
rlm@67
|
1259 tremendous resource for studying the human body. I
|
rlm@62
|
1260 see nothing wrong with it morally, since no one is
|
rlm@67
|
1261 suffering, and it stands to save many lives throughout
|
rlm@62
|
1262 more advanced technology.
|
rlm@62
|
1263
|
rlm@62
|
1264 - X-ray telepresence :: given that a doctor is operating on a patient
|
rlm@62
|
1265 via telepresence, one cool things you can do is shine X-rays into
|
rlm@62
|
1266 the patient to view the insides during real time. If the system
|
rlm@80
|
1267 was coupled with a Bayesian model of the layout of the structure,
|
rlm@67
|
1268 and the x-rays were only fired whenever the uncertainty of the
|
rlm@62
|
1269 model reached a certain threshold, then the radiation damage
|
rlm@62
|
1270 and surgery risk could be minimized.
|
rlm@62
|
1271
|
rlm@62
|
1272 - superfluid vascular system :: I wonder what would happen if you
|
rlm@62
|
1273 replaced the blood in a human with a superfluid. What would the
|
rlm@62
|
1274 physical dynamics be? Would the superfluid flow through the
|
rlm@62
|
1275 vasculature, or would it ignore it and travel through the cells,
|
rlm@62
|
1276 or something else entirely. Since superfluids need to be cold to
|
rlm@62
|
1277 retain their superfluidity, how would the dynamics change during
|
rlm@62
|
1278 perfusion of a superfluid, where the fluid gains and looses
|
rlm@62
|
1279 superfluidity as it goes deeper into the body and is cooled by
|
rlm@67
|
1280 superfluid from upstream. In summary there are two things to
|
rlm@62
|
1281 simulate 1.) replace all blood in human with superfluid
|
rlm@62
|
1282 instantly. 2.) perfuse superfluid into human.
|
rlm@51
|
1283
|
rlm@59
|
1284 - projective guessing :: I think that we read and see things by
|
rlm@67
|
1285 making a really good guess about what we're expecting to see,
|
rlm@59
|
1286 and then searching for our guess in what we see. If it really
|
rlm@59
|
1287 doesn't match, then we start to make more guesses / analyze the
|
rlm@59
|
1288 image from first principles, but most stuff is projective
|
rlm@59
|
1289 guessing.
|
rlm@59
|
1290
|
rlm@67
|
1291 - Intestinal flora maintenance :: why not inoculate babies at birth
|
rlm@59
|
1292 with "ideal" gut flora instead of whatever bullshit they
|
rlm@59
|
1293 naturally get, thus giving them optimal digestive/nutrient
|
rlm@67
|
1294 extraction capabilities. Might also be able to make their farts
|
rlm@94
|
1295 not stink for life, too. MORE IMPORTANTLY, might help to
|
rlm@91
|
1296 preventatively stop some forms of /colic/, which affects 1 in 5
|
rlm@94
|
1297 babies and causes constant screaming and pain for about 5 weeks.
|
rlm@59
|
1298
|
rlm@56
|
1299 - server culture : mirrors :: make a distributed system where people
|
rlm@56
|
1300 can mirror the websites of people they like -- essentially cover
|
rlm@56
|
1301 the server costs of favored websites. This could make popular
|
rlm@56
|
1302 websites run at no cost. The system would require that the
|
rlm@56
|
1303 mirrored content be the same as the official source. Sort of like
|
rlm@67
|
1304 bit-torrent for websites.
|
rlm@56
|
1305
|
rlm@56
|
1306 - map programming :: one problem with functional programming is that
|
rlm@56
|
1307 in order to remain functional, you have to pass up arguments up
|
rlm@67
|
1308 into each calling function to get the full range of behavior
|
rlm@56
|
1309 from the lower level functions. Normally people come to a
|
rlm@67
|
1310 compromise involving abstraction and sparing use of dynamic
|
rlm@67
|
1311 variables to configure runtime behavior. What would be the
|
rlm@56
|
1312 advantages of making a programming language where every function
|
rlm@67
|
1313 receives one argument, a map, which contains all the symbol
|
rlm@56
|
1314 bindings it would ever need? This map is passed on to all
|
rlm@56
|
1315 subordinate functions. This way, you could replace functions on
|
rlm@56
|
1316 the fly, and arrange for there to be sensible defaults,
|
rlm@56
|
1317 etc. Might cause more harm than good but is an interesting idea.
|
rlm@56
|
1318
|
rlm@55
|
1319 - rest nest :: a small EEG device you would attach to your head when
|
rlm@55
|
1320 you go to sleep at night. ML algorithms would determine
|
rlm@55
|
1321 your particular sleep cycles. This would mostly be an
|
rlm@55
|
1322 alarm clock that you could give a time range, say
|
rlm@55
|
1323 7:00AM - 7:15AM, and it would wake you up during an
|
rlm@55
|
1324 ideal time corresponding to then end of one of your 90
|
rlm@55
|
1325 min sleep cycles. You would feel much more rested upon
|
rlm@55
|
1326 waking up, and would wake up faster. There might be
|
rlm@55
|
1327 some other uses for the EEG data as well.
|
rlm@55
|
1328
|
rlm@50
|
1329 - image compression :: use a library like gimp or opencv to process an
|
rlm@50
|
1330 image to make it have less entropy, then store the reverse of
|
rlm@50
|
1331 those operations along with the compressed simpler image as a
|
rlm@80
|
1332 super-compressed image file (possibly accepting some
|
rlm@80
|
1333 losses). Trades file size for decompression time, and allows one
|
rlm@50
|
1334 to cheat by using information in gimp/opencv to compress the
|
rlm@50
|
1335 image.
|
rlm@50
|
1336
|
rlm@47
|
1337 - fixed cryopreservation :: why not use a fixative to buy enough time
|
rlm@42
|
1338 to ramp up cryoprotectants to an acceptable level at room
|
rlm@42
|
1339 temperature? Then, the whole system can be rapidly cooled and
|
rlm@42
|
1340 vitrified. This method "severs the biological link" in that the
|
rlm@47
|
1341 fixatives are highly toxic, but current vitrification procedures
|
rlm@42
|
1342 do this anyway since there can be a lot of freezing damage.
|
rlm@38
|
1343
|
rlm@67
|
1344 - dilated security camera :: a security camera that would capture
|
rlm@58
|
1345 full video footage of everything at 60fps but then decide to keep
|
rlm@58
|
1346 only every 1 frame every 5 seconds unless there's something
|
rlm@58
|
1347 "interesting" happening.
|
rlm@58
|
1348
|
rlm@40
|
1349 - bitcoin wallet :: Part of "server culture", this would be something
|
rlm@40
|
1350 like "coin.your-domain.com" which would serve as
|
rlm@40
|
1351 your personal trusted access to your own bitcoins
|
rlm@40
|
1352 from anywhere.
|
rlm@40
|
1353
|
rlm@40
|
1354 - libpay :: this would be a free library which would enable
|
rlm@40
|
1355 micro-donations to software projects and other projects,
|
rlm@47
|
1356 so that you could donate a penny to "emacs" and it would
|
rlm@47
|
1357 be automatically split up to every person who has ever
|
rlm@40
|
1358 contributed to emacs in proportion to the amount of
|
rlm@40
|
1359 community esteem, code quantity, bugs fixed, whatever the
|
rlm@47
|
1360 community decides. This might make it possible for
|
rlm@40
|
1361 programmers to live entirely off of free programming.
|
rlm@40
|
1362
|
rlm@45
|
1363 - distributed graphics :: Browser based graphics-card accelerated
|
rlm@45
|
1364 distributed computing API.
|
rlm@41
|
1365
|
rlm@40
|
1366 - pronouns :: use capital letters A-Z instead of pronouns. They solve
|
rlm@40
|
1367 pronoun referents and gender neutrality, are short to
|
rlm@40
|
1368 say, and you can encode useful information into the
|
rlm@40
|
1369 choice of letter. For example, instead of "Meetings
|
rlm@40
|
1370 shall be presided over by the president, unless she is
|
rlm@42
|
1371 absent." USE "Meetings shall be presided over by the
|
rlm@40
|
1372 president, unless P is absent." We already use this a
|
rlm@40
|
1373 little, since I and U are reserved for the subject and
|
rlm@40
|
1374 object respectively.
|
rlm@40
|
1375
|
rlm@40
|
1376 - phone DSP :: software app that inserts an audio DSP between the
|
rlm@40
|
1377 input to a phone and the output. The DSP is delicious
|
rlm@40
|
1378 and configurable, and can allow men to make their
|
rlm@40
|
1379 voices deeper, etc. The app would allow you to hear
|
rlm@40
|
1380 your own voice as others hear it. Most people hate how
|
rlm@40
|
1381 their own voice sounds. The app would also allow one to
|
rlm@47
|
1382 immediately change the parameters of the DSP using good
|
rlm@40
|
1383 presets.
|
rlm@40
|
1384
|
rlm@47
|
1385 - predestined body learning :: a good example of predestined learning
|
rlm@40
|
1386 might be the mirror neurons.
|
rlm@40
|
1387
|
rlm@47
|
1388 - restaurant receipt :: use a carbon copy receipt instead of two stupid
|
rlm@40
|
1389 copies.
|
rlm@40
|
1390
|
rlm@41
|
1391 - anti google glass :: glasses with mounted lasers and computer vision
|
rlm@41
|
1392 that targets the cameras in google glass and destroy them.
|
rlm@41
|
1393
|
rlm@40
|
1394 - wearable towel :: towel with clasp, velcro, whatever, that allows
|
rlm@40
|
1395 one to wear the towel more securely than just
|
rlm@40
|
1396 wrapping it tightly and hoping for the best.
|
rlm@40
|
1397
|
rlm@47
|
1398 - crossdressing :: Easiest way to disguise oneself as a woman is to
|
rlm@44
|
1399 wear a burka.
|
rlm@41
|
1400
|
rlm@40
|
1401 - book-mode :: intelligent color highlighting for books and
|
rlm@40
|
1402 articles. It would disambiguate pronouns and involved
|
rlm@93
|
1403 references. For example, if "Rachael" was assigned the
|
rlm@93
|
1404 color red, and "the blonde haired girl" refers to
|
rlm@93
|
1405 "Rachael", then "the blonde haired girl" would be
|
rlm@93
|
1406 colored red. Also, you could disambiguate multi part
|
rlm@93
|
1407 run-on sentences by highlighting each
|
rlm@93
|
1408 subcomponent. Maybe would also have applications to
|
rlm@93
|
1409 scientific reading.
|
rlm@40
|
1410
|
rlm@40
|
1411 - Handheld light Rain measurement :: this would be a clear, teflon
|
rlm@47
|
1412 coated plastic disk with a camera underneath the disk. You would
|
rlm@40
|
1413 be able to hold the device out and it would measure the rate of
|
rlm@40
|
1414 accumulation of water droplets from fine mists and light rain by
|
rlm@40
|
1415 using computer vision to measure the diameters of the drops.
|
rlm@40
|
1416
|
rlm@40
|
1417 - Big Brother Farming :: This would be a vision system that would
|
rlm@40
|
1418 individually monitor each plant and turn on water, etc to ensure
|
rlm@40
|
1419 maximum/uniform growth for each plant.
|
rlm@40
|
1420
|
rlm@40
|
1421 - Discrete Faucet :: A faucet with discrete ticks instead of
|
rlm@47
|
1422 continuous.
|
rlm@40
|
1423
|
rlm@40
|
1424 - Laser Circle :: take a glass microfiliment and shine a laser at one
|
rlm@40
|
1425 end at an oblique angle. It will make a perfect,
|
rlm@40
|
1426 large circle on the wall, converting a laser beam
|
rlm@47
|
1427 into a laser cone, preserving most of the energy of
|
rlm@40
|
1428 the laser.
|
rlm@40
|
1429
|
rlm@40
|
1430 - Invisible Glass :: Take a container of liquid and embed a
|
rlm@40
|
1431 glass sculpture made out of glass that has exactly the same index
|
rlm@40
|
1432 of refraction and color of the liquid. Then the sculpture will be
|
rlm@40
|
1433 totally invisible in the container, and will only be revealed
|
rlm@40
|
1434 when the liquid is drained. The container might be a fancy
|
rlm@40
|
1435 wine/spirit bottle or an hourglass.
|
rlm@40
|
1436
|
rlm@47
|
1437 - Caterpillar people :: A race of caterpillar like creatures gains
|
rlm@40
|
1438 intelligence after eons of predation by birds, etc. These
|
rlm@47
|
1439 caterpillar creatures still undergo metamorphosis into a large
|
rlm@40
|
1440 butterfly-like creature. The metamorphosis process turns the
|
rlm@40
|
1441 caterpillar's brain into mush and reforms it into a minimal,
|
rlm@40
|
1442 dumb, truly insect-like mind, completely destroying the person
|
rlm@47
|
1443 the caterpillar was. The society develops all sorts of customs and
|
rlm@40
|
1444 religious interpretations of the metamorphosis. It is viewed as
|
rlm@40
|
1445 good and natural by some since it is part of their life cycle and
|
rlm@47
|
1446 necessary to propagate the species, as only the butterflies can
|
rlm@40
|
1447 mate. Some think that the butterflies are still the same person
|
rlm@47
|
1448 because they have the same soul, even they no longer posses the
|
rlm@47
|
1449 memories or personality of the original caterpillar. Some see the
|
rlm@40
|
1450 butterfly form as the "true form" of the species, since the
|
rlm@40
|
1451 butterflies can fly, mate, and are beautiful. Many make a big
|
rlm@47
|
1452 deal out of the fact that 1-2% of the caterpillar's mind is
|
rlm@40
|
1453 actually preserved in the butterfly. Some see it as a terrible
|
rlm@47
|
1454 tragedy and argue that the caterpillars should try to stop the
|
rlm@40
|
1455 metamorphosis by technology. Practically, some very important
|
rlm@40
|
1456 members of society undergo hormone therapy and/or surgery to
|
rlm@40
|
1457 prevent metamorphosis so that they can live longer as themselves.
|
rlm@40
|
1458
|
rlm@40
|
1459 This is a continuation of Marvin Minsky's ideas about pain being
|
rlm@40
|
1460 something that preserves our bodies while destroying our minds,
|
rlm@40
|
1461 something that is a remnant from our too harsh animal days that
|
rlm@40
|
1462 hasn't caught up to the fact that we have very complex brains
|
rlm@40
|
1463 now. It's a worst-case scenario about a maladaptive genetic
|
rlm@40
|
1464 legacy. Also, it's inspired by "There She Is!!!", which makes a
|
rlm@40
|
1465 compelling point about homosexuality by introducing a second
|
rlm@40
|
1466 gender characteristic (bunny/cat, male/female), which makes
|
rlm@40
|
1467 homophobia look very silly. Here, our own biological legacy of
|
rlm@47
|
1468 pain and death is made to look like the tragedy it is through the
|
rlm@47
|
1469 lens of the the caterpillar people.
|
rlm@40
|
1470
|
rlm@46
|
1471 - relationships as a business :: [[http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Up-or-Out-Solving-the-IT-Turnover-Crisis.aspx][Turnover-Crisis]] is an excellent talk
|
rlm@46
|
1472 about the "culture of quitting," which is about better business
|
rlm@46
|
1473 by letting people go instead of keeping them around past their
|
rlm@47
|
1474 "apex". Focuses on information transfer. Cool idea of an alumni
|
rlm@46
|
1475 network, which for relationships would be a group of satisfied
|
rlm@46
|
1476 ex-lovers, who would recommend new people your way, and who might
|
rlm@46
|
1477 consider coming to you again, refreshed from their time away with
|
rlm@46
|
1478 new stories/experiences. I should look for examples of this and
|
rlm@46
|
1479 how they worked out.
|
rlm@43
|
1480
|
rlm@47
|
1481 - coffee with tea :: /rlm-tea/ contains 2% sugar, 10% cream, and 20%
|
rlm@43
|
1482 dylan coffee. /dylan coffee/ contains 5% sugar,
|
rlm@43
|
1483 20% cream, and 10% rlm-tea. Start your mornings
|
rlm@43
|
1484 with recursion!
|
rlm@43
|
1485
|
rlm@43
|
1486 - psychic crystal :: in a science fiction story, this would be an
|
rlm@43
|
1487 object that is very easy to move physically but is extremely
|
rlm@43
|
1488 difficult to move with telekinesis.
|
rlm@43
|
1489
|
rlm@40
|
1490 - http://betsofbitco.in/ :: what a great place for an AI/person to
|
rlm@40
|
1491 prove themselves as a good predictor. I wish this could be
|
rlm@40
|
1492 automated.
|
rlm@40
|
1493
|
rlm@44
|
1494 - true reflection :: don't forget about that mirror in the student
|
rlm@44
|
1495 center!, it's two mirrors at right angles, like staring at a
|
rlm@44
|
1496 corner of a room. The light reflects so that it shows you what
|
rlm@44
|
1497 you actually look like, instead of your mirror image.
|
rlm@33
|
1498
|
rlm@33
|
1499 - remote control wasp :: use computer to drive wings with remote
|
rlm@32
|
1500 power/logic.
|
rlm@32
|
1501
|
rlm@47
|
1502 - encrypted email phone book :: public (distributed?) database of
|
rlm@44
|
1503 email->private-key pairs, to enable automatic encryption.
|
rlm@32
|
1504
|
rlm@44
|
1505 - universal eye color :: every equivalent creature will see each
|
rlm@44
|
1506 others' eyes as black -- it's universal. Even if the creatures
|
rlm@44
|
1507 see in radio waves, and their eyes are 2m long pieces of jagged
|
rlm@44
|
1508 metal, when those creatures look at each other, they will see
|
rlm@44
|
1509 black, the absence of light and color (since it's being absorbed
|
rlm@44
|
1510 by the sensor array).
|
rlm@32
|
1511
|
rlm@33
|
1512 - intelligent microwave :: it learns where the hot nodes of its fields
|
rlm@83
|
1513 are, and uses them to evenly heat any food item. It has an infrared
|
rlm@32
|
1514 camera or something to keep track of how hot the food is. That way,
|
rlm@32
|
1515 you don't get bowls where the edges are boiling, while the center is
|
rlm@32
|
1516 still frozen. Requires a little bit of intelligence/vision, since
|
rlm@32
|
1517 the exact pattern of heating totally depends on the exact shape of
|
rlm@47
|
1518 the food. Wouldn't need a carousel, and wouldn't need a timer,
|
rlm@47
|
1519 just a desired temperature. Could also detect ice, and automatically
|
rlm@32
|
1520 defrost the parts which are frozen. Might be able to work much
|
rlm@47
|
1521 faster since it can avoid overheating; might have problems with
|
rlm@32
|
1522 heating the insides of thick things, might need a weight sensor too.
|
rlm@32
|
1523
|
rlm@39
|
1524 + Would be much cleaner than other microwaves, since food would
|
rlm@39
|
1525 "sputter" and splash liquid much less.
|
rlm@32
|
1526
|
rlm@39
|
1527 + Throw in some SIFT+R processing to match previously cooked foods
|
rlm@39
|
1528 and learn the exact heating profiles for things that have been
|
rlm@54
|
1529 cooked before -- it can get faster the more it's used.
|
rlm@32
|
1530
|
rlm@47
|
1531 - compression :: brain-aware image compression algorithm
|
rlm@32
|
1532
|
rlm@44
|
1533 - Credit card proxy :: would be a company which works like paypal
|
rlm@44
|
1534 except for real world transactions
|
rlm@32
|
1535
|
rlm@33
|
1536 - Flesh pillow :: a pillow like the arm or torso of a human, complete
|
rlm@33
|
1537 with simulated temperature, bones, and heartbeat.
|
rlm@33
|
1538
|
rlm@47
|
1539 - super screw :: a screw which has only one or two threads and instead
|
rlm@47
|
1540 uses compression to fit into a hole (the whole shank
|
rlm@33
|
1541 of the screw is split into multiple pieces to
|
rlm@33
|
1542 accomplish this; the tip is a point, then the middle
|
rlm@33
|
1543 bulges out and gets compressed when screwed in.
|
rlm@33
|
1544
|
rlm@47
|
1545 - light filter :: (like light tweezers) to mechanically separate
|
rlm@33
|
1546 fluids with different index of refraction
|
rlm@33
|
1547
|
rlm@33
|
1548 - chalk eraser project :: maybe make a directional eraser, for easy
|
rlm@33
|
1549 release of chalk dust, like fur, and how it likes to rest in a
|
rlm@33
|
1550 certain direction.
|
rlm@33
|
1551
|
rlm@44
|
1552 - silver socks :: socks laced with silver for the antimicrobial
|
rlm@44
|
1553 properties.
|
rlm@32
|
1554
|
rlm@53
|
1555 - UROP :: magnet gear/metal teeth tape
|
rlm@53
|
1556
|
rlm@82
|
1557 - Rod of Moses :: device to distill urine through evaporation and
|
rlm@53
|
1558 easily dispose of urea crystals for use in desert --
|
rlm@53
|
1559 produce drinkable water.
|
rlm@32
|
1560
|
rlm@47
|
1561 - UROP :: Make the LED in line with the flow for the micro injector, so
|
rlm@44
|
1562 that it may transmit maximum flow. Motor that changes
|
rlm@44
|
1563 distance of internal magnet from windings depending on
|
rlm@44
|
1564 desired speed so as to obtain maximum power efficiency.
|
rlm@32
|
1565
|
rlm@47
|
1566 - lottery scraper :: web scraper which monitors various lotteries,
|
rlm@44
|
1567 looking for "special" gimmick changes in the rules (like 4x
|
rlm@44
|
1568 winnings on Wednesdays) and computes expected value...
|
rlm@34
|
1569
|
rlm@34
|
1570 - Memristiors novel design :: make an evolutionary algorithm to make
|
rlm@34
|
1571 old stuff using all four basic circuit elements.
|
rlm@34
|
1572
|
rlm@44
|
1573 - Conductive concrete :: concrete that has embedded metal fibers so
|
rlm@44
|
1574 that it can conduct electricity.
|
rlm@34
|
1575
|
rlm@44
|
1576 - little bitty melting pot :: might be useful for some types of
|
rlm@44
|
1577 manufacturing/3D printing -- how small can an induction melter be
|
rlm@44
|
1578 made, for example.
|
rlm@34
|
1579
|
rlm@44
|
1580 - power strip/timer programmable combination :: meh
|
rlm@34
|
1581
|
rlm@47
|
1582 - algorithms :: which learn what their inputs are and in what order,
|
rlm@44
|
1583 and can adapt to changing circumstances -- they
|
rlm@44
|
1584 remember previous arguments and adapt so as to respond
|
rlm@44
|
1585 to different connections.
|
rlm@34
|
1586
|
rlm@47
|
1587 - true pure tones :: hear a true pure tone by direct stimulation of the
|
rlm@44
|
1588 nerves of the ear
|
rlm@43
|
1589
|
rlm@43
|
1590 - mechanical analogue to the electrical op-amp :: would be an object
|
rlm@43
|
1591 with two levers -- you pull on one lever and the other moves the
|
rlm@43
|
1592 same way, no matter what's in the way or what it is driving. This
|
rlm@47
|
1593 analogy could be useful to teach op amps to people.
|
rlm@34
|
1594
|
rlm@47
|
1595 - paper folding device :: make it convenient to fold lots of papers in
|
rlm@34
|
1596 various ways.
|
rlm@34
|
1597
|
rlm@34
|
1598 - concrete epoxy :: epoxy with sand/ some other solid material.
|
rlm@34
|
1599
|
rlm@47
|
1600 - light capacitor :: suspend some ball of material with a high index
|
rlm@43
|
1601 of refraction and shine light into it so it gets stuck -- would
|
rlm@43
|
1602 the light stay trapped forever? Could you build up unlimited
|
rlm@43
|
1603 quantities of light inside the sphere (which could then be
|
rlm@43
|
1604 released slowly by frustrated internal reflection?
|
rlm@34
|
1605
|
rlm@40
|
1606 - movie screening :: Movies always are too long at first. One way to
|
rlm@34
|
1607 shorten them ``scientifically" is to record blink rate during the
|
rlm@34
|
1608 move and then remove / shorten the frames of the parts in which
|
rlm@34
|
1609 there are a lot of blinking (average this over multiple people)
|
rlm@34
|
1610 better yet, put it online and do it across thousands of people. I
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rlm@34
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1611 got this from youtube in which there is an episode of kill bill
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rlm@47
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1612 which is composed entirely of the parts in which people had their
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rlm@34
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1613 eyes closed. slogan: want to make a movie people can't take their
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rlm@34
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1614 eyes off of? Just take those parts out!
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rlm@34
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1615
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rlm@47
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1616 - optimize an article :: capture reading of a scientific article via
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rlm@44
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1617 screen capture while people read it, then use it to make the
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rlm@44
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1618 article better. like the movie-pruning idea.
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rlm@35
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1619
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rlm@44
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1620 - super reading program :: teaches people the ideal mental mask to
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rlm@44
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1621 apply during reading so as to read very fast.
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rlm@35
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1622
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rlm@44
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1623 - explosive thermite epoxy putty :: one part would contain the rust,
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rlm@47
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1624 one part the aluminum.
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rlm@34
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1625
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rlm@44
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1626 - reading comprehension :: use the above screen capture routine to
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rlm@44
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1627 make a quiz program that constructs questions about the content
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rlm@44
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1628 you seemed to gloss over while reading. could be easy if the pdf
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rlm@44
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1629 came with embedded questions. Dylan: automatically generate
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rlm@44
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1630 word-cloud about the parts you found most interesting; help
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rlm@44
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1631 others who read the same stuff by drawing attention to the
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rlm@44
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1632 interesting parts.
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rlm@34
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1633
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rlm@44
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1634 - hard sword :: make a samurai sword, but use osmiridum instead of
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rlm@44
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1635 martensite for the cutting part; it should be a better
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rlm@44
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1636 sword.
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rlm@32
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1637
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rlm@44
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1638 - close range wireless :: use the induction technology used to
|
rlm@44
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1639 recharge electric toothbrushes with no metal links to send data
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rlm@44
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1640 without any metal at all!
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rlm@32
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1641
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rlm@44
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1642 - reading :: is a form of synsethesia
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rlm@32
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1643
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rlm@44
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1644 - DNA printer :: A machine which translates the text eg, "ACTGAC" into
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rlm@44
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1645 actual DNA
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rlm@32
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1646
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rlm@44
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1647 - black generator :: ferro-fluid magnetic field suspended micro
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rlm@44
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1648 generator to make electricity
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rlm@32
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1649
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rlm@44
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1650 - alcohol battery :: alcohol/fluid flow powered battery
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rlm@32
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1651
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rlm@44
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1652 - folding razor blade sword ::
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rlm@32
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1653
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rlm@44
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1654 - perfect pitch :: learn perfect pitch using another sense in
|
rlm@44
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1655 combination (sight or touch)
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rlm@32
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1656
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rlm@44
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1657 - kaleidoscope projector ::
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rlm@32
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1658
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rlm@44
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1659 - razor blade de-sharpener :: for guilt free disposal
|
rlm@32
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1660
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rlm@44
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1661 - bricks :: filled with luminescent plant material
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rlm@32
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1662
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rlm@47
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1663 - bio metallic structure :: metal grids with seeds inside, which grow
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rlm@44
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1664 together and form a durable biological matrix. The metal
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rlm@44
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1665 substrate delivers water. (maybe use plastic instead of metal?)
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rlm@44
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1666 Dylan: enrich plants with inorganic compounds; electrical
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rlm@44
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1667 interfaces in cellular plant matter => remote-controlled
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rlm@44
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1668 photosynthetic/bioluminescent structures.
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rlm@32
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1669
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rlm@44
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1670 - conducting extracellular matrix :: to allow better control of
|
rlm@44
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1671 organic systems and an enhanced nervous system.
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rlm@32
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1672
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rlm@44
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1673 - cross-modal memory hashing :: a way to retrieve memories more
|
rlm@44
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1674 robustly.
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rlm@32
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1675
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rlm@47
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1676 - flossing thimble-guards :: (these actually exist)
|
rlm@32
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1677
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rlm@44
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1678 - rules + lattice learning :: integrate lattice learning with rules by
|
rlm@44
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1679 generating hypothetical examples
|
rlm@32
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1680
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rlm@47
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1681 - wooden refrigerator :: to give food a better taste Dylan: like
|
rlm@44
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1682 barrels for wine, or planks for salmon. Maybe just have "flavor
|
rlm@44
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1683 planks" for your pre-existing fridge. Need to mitigate effect of
|
rlm@44
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1684 temperature on volatility?
|
rlm@32
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1685
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rlm@35
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1686 - radioactive transmutation molecule by molecule :: create precious
|
rlm@35
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1687 metals or something else economically advantageous.
|
rlm@32
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1688
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rlm@47
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1689 - crowd preservation :: inoculate food with tons of harmless
|
rlm@44
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1690 bacteria so that there's no room for bad bacteria as a method of
|
rlm@44
|
1691 preservation
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rlm@32
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1692
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rlm@47
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1693 - old school preservation :: Pasteur - style holding jar with siphon
|
rlm@47
|
1694 as a way to store liquids at room temperature indefinitely w/o
|
rlm@47
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1695 refrigeration.
|
rlm@32
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1696
|
rlm@47
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1697 - restaurant policy :: Throw rude people out of restaurant as a matter
|
rlm@44
|
1698 of course -- make ambiance much better.
|
rlm@32
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1699
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rlm@47
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1700 - clean windows :: make something that mixes soap with fire hydrant
|
rlm@44
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1701 water (and reduces the pressure a bit) and use it
|
rlm@44
|
1702 to clean windows of buildings.
|
rlm@32
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1703
|
rlm@44
|
1704 - ocarina :: make an ocarina out of pure silver
|
rlm@32
|
1705
|
rlm@35
|
1706 - fire pen :: pen which burns words on to the page, thus never needing
|
rlm@47
|
1707 any ink. Is there a way to make it runnable from the
|
rlm@35
|
1708 human's energy?
|
rlm@32
|
1709
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rlm@44
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1710 - website to design your own soda :: and label, and have it mailed to
|
rlm@44
|
1711 you / sell it from your own online store.
|
rlm@35
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1712
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rlm@44
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1713 - solar panels :: that float on the ocean
|
rlm@43
|
1714
|
rlm@35
|
1715 - handcuffs with more than two cuffs (3?) :: great for daisy chaining
|
rlm@43
|
1716 people, binding them to environment, etc.
|
rlm@35
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1717
|
rlm@35
|
1718 - vector based SOUND files :: like the pictures but with SOUND. codify
|
rlm@35
|
1719 sound in a language with enough symbols so that it can describe
|
rlm@35
|
1720 everything and encode it in that. would be like going from speech
|
rlm@43
|
1721 to text or smtg. Could also store sound as an image of the
|
rlm@35
|
1722 wavefront encoded as a vector image.
|
rlm@32
|
1723
|
rlm@44
|
1724 - Mouse :: with a horizontal scroll wheel in addition to the vertical
|
rlm@44
|
1725 scroll wheel
|
rlm@32
|
1726
|
rlm@47
|
1727 - logic maintenance system for big institutions :: to make sure the
|
rlm@44
|
1728 things they are thinking about doing are not retarded
|
rlm@32
|
1729
|
rlm@47
|
1730 - http://www.regulations.gov/ :: cool site
|
rlm@32
|
1731
|
rlm@44
|
1732 - genetically engineered glowing fruit :: sell seeds?
|
rlm@32
|
1733
|
rlm@36
|
1734 - memory slide :: IF memories are encoded using particular sensory
|
rlm@36
|
1735 impressions, what happens if the sensory organ
|
rlm@36
|
1736 itself changes? those memories would become
|
rlm@47
|
1737 inaccessible. maybe this is why we can't remember
|
rlm@36
|
1738 much from our childhoods. also, could this happen
|
rlm@47
|
1739 throughout life as well? Could S remember stuff from
|
rlm@36
|
1740 his childhood?
|
rlm@32
|
1741
|
rlm@47
|
1742 - make a completely indestructible phone :: no moving parts or display
|
rlm@36
|
1743 you should be able to slam it around all you want, and it will
|
rlm@36
|
1744 just work. brutally simple. aerogel around the battery, minimal
|
rlm@36
|
1745 interface - never gets too hot, and can be dropped into water. no
|
rlm@36
|
1746 holes -- uses field effects for everything from the buttons to
|
rlm@36
|
1747 inductive charging and data transfer.
|
rlm@32
|
1748
|
rlm@44
|
1749 - midi to ocarina "tabs" program :: (online website? buy ocarinas from
|
rlm@44
|
1750 it too)
|
rlm@32
|
1751
|
rlm@44
|
1752 - 3d printing with sound pulses (or just patterns) :: like the 8.03
|
rlm@44
|
1753 lecture
|
rlm@32
|
1754
|
rlm@40
|
1755 - lighter flint on spring :: make hot, throw it at something, and it
|
rlm@40
|
1756 makes sparkles!
|
rlm@32
|
1757
|
rlm@44
|
1758 - nuclear energy :: Rebranding New+Clear Energy with informational
|
rlm@44
|
1759 campaign and public debate forum to enforce its
|
rlm@44
|
1760 transparent and open nature. France needn't be the
|
rlm@44
|
1761 world leader in nuclear energy. (Dylan)
|
rlm@32
|
1762
|
rlm@44
|
1763 - bubbles :: Engineer a material which has both ductility and high
|
rlm@44
|
1764 surface tension to make the "third"
|
rlm@44
|
1765 minimal-surface-energy solution to a bubble suspended
|
rlm@44
|
1766 between two equal-diameter rings. (Solutions are
|
rlm@44
|
1767 cylindrical catenary curve, two separated half-bubbles,
|
rlm@44
|
1768 and a double-cone)
|
rlm@38
|
1769
|
rlm@38
|
1770 - Textbook whose content can be varied continuously :: alter level of
|
rlm@38
|
1771 difficulty, rigor, diction, emphasize crossover with certain
|
rlm@38
|
1772 other discipline, etc. Content generated dynamically from
|
rlm@38
|
1773 knowledge base, along with questions that are moreover altered to
|
rlm@38
|
1774 guide knowledge acquisition. Motivation: One book of
|
rlm@40
|
1775 knowledge. /One./
|
rlm@40
|
1776
|
rlm@40
|
1777 ** From Jacob's idea list
|
rlm@40
|
1778
|
rlm@47
|
1779 - Roommate-canceling headphones: uses roommate's laptop mic to seed
|
rlm@43
|
1780 noise cancellation alg in your headphones (would this
|
rlm@40
|
1781 work?). -Update on sound canceling headphones that take feed from
|
rlm@40
|
1782 tv: how about ones that cancel people talking on the phone by
|
rlm@40
|
1783 receiving the phone signals and playing inverse sound
|
rlm@40
|
1784 waves. #signalprocessing ~jcole@mit.edu
|
rlm@40
|
1785
|
rlm@40
|
1786 - ClackerAlert -- tells if you slam the keys too hard using sound data
|
rlm@40
|
1787 (and speed/jerkiness data)!.Prevents RSI ~jcole@mit.e
|
rlm@40
|
1788
|
rlm@40
|
1789 - Panic Pin :: separate pin that you can tell someone if forced to
|
rlm@41
|
1790 identify your PIN (idea from idea about credit cards)
|