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author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Sat, 23 Apr 2016 18:01:05 -0700
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rlm@43 1 #+title: Big List O' Ideas
rlm@43 2 #+author: Robert McIntyre
rlm@43 3 #+email: rlm@mit.edu
rlm@43 4 #+description: list of ideas from the last ~ 7 years
rlm@47 5 #+keywords: aurellem ideas half-baked random
rlm@43 6 #+SETUPFILE: ../../aurellem/org/setup.org
rlm@43 7 #+INCLUDE: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org
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rlm@43 9
rlm@42 10 * Ideas
rlm@143 11 # :PROPERTIES:
rlm@143 12 # :HTML_CONTAINER_CLASS: ideas
rlm@143 13 # :END:
rlm@42 14
rlm@145 15 This is a list of *Every* idea I've written down
rlm@52 16
rlm@62 17 #+begin_quote
rlm@62 18 There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about
rlm@62 19 getting credit.
rlm@62 20 #+end_quote
rlm@62 21
rlm@162 22 - ASC as a police evidence preservation technique <<2016-04-18 Mon>> ::
rlm@162 23
rlm@162 24 - multi metal fixation w/ formamide <<2016-04-18 Mon>> :: osmium
rlm@162 25 copper zinc uranium formamide
rlm@162 26
rlm@162 27 - blood like cars that knows where to go <<2016-04-18 Mon>> :: maybe
rlm@162 28 with flagellas
rlm@162 29
rlm@162 30 - post antibiotic recolonization from preserved blood <<2016-04-18 Mon>> ::
rlm@162 31
rlm@162 32 - application of poly magnet for perfusion connections <<2016-04-18 Mon>> ::
rlm@162 33
rlm@162 34 - explicit lobbying and influences from companies --- helps make behaviour more predictable and can help to paradoxcically make the lobbying money stronger <<2016-04-18 Mon>> ::
rlm@162 35
rlm@162 36 - glutaraldehyde as a callous hardener <<2016-04-18 Mon>> ::
rlm@162 37
rlm@162 38 - twit-shank-select <<2016-04-17 Sun>> :: and if you actually had a
rlm@162 39 really cool day, then you request that you become the
rlm@162 40 trunk. Gaurantees that you have much more statistically
rlm@162 41 interesting days, every day!
rlm@162 42
rlm@162 43 - twit-shank <<2016-04-17 Sun>> :: much easer, ""minimum viable
rlm@162 44 product"-style mind-merge. Just tweet any significant shit you
rlm@162 45 did that day, then kill yourself. Trunk-you reads the tweet and
rlm@162 46 continues with his day.
rlm@162 47
rlm@162 48 - names that sound stupid today but would be good ancient Greek names <<2016-04-16 Sat>> :: "telethon",
rlm@162 49 "mentos", "mentor". Behold TELETHON, he was a great warrior and
rlm@162 50 runner!
rlm@162 51
rlm@162 52 - <<2016-04-12 Tue>> if only we had gold much more abundant than lead ::
rlm@162 53
rlm@162 54 - <<2016-04-12 Tue>> wood engineered to contain a lot of gold sequestered in the tissues ::
rlm@162 55
rlm@162 56 - <<2016-04-12 Tue>> mtg life counter app that's more like paper ::
rlm@162 57
rlm@162 58 - <<2016-04-11 Mon>> good word for a prostitute : conslutant ::
rlm@162 59
rlm@162 60 - <<2016-04-11 Mon>> old paper book on acid paper preserved in SPURS resin ::
rlm@162 61
rlm@162 62 - <<2016-04-11 Mon>> blood ink :: you can just buy a bottle of
rlm@162 63 hemoglobin and make ink. maybe linseed oil and hemoglobin would
rlm@162 64 work? throw in some sort of crosslinker or something to keep the
rlm@162 65 hemoglobin red?
rlm@162 66
rlm@162 67 - <<2016-04-08 Fri>> trash horse ::
rlm@162 68
rlm@162 69 - <<2016-04-08 Fri>> soul of the day :: a full life recording
rlm@162 70
rlm@162 71 - <<2016-04-07 Thu>> omega the forsaken :: grade so bad you fail that
rlm@162 72 class and all its prerequisites
rlm@162 73
rlm@162 74 - <<2016-04-05 Tue>> eye ring right angle mirror :: creatures with
rlm@162 75 say six eyes shaped in a ring on their head. They mentallly
rlm@162 76 shift their attention from one pair of eyes to another to really
rlm@162 77 preceive 3D shapes. However, if you pit a right angle mirrr in
rlm@162 78 the back of their head, they can sudetnly incorporate two pairs
rlm@162 79 of eyes simultaneously, perceiving the world in 3.XD, where they
rlm@162 80 see what they call "true depth", where 2D representations of 3D
rlm@162 81 space look hopelessly fake and the coeld has a sort of profound
rlm@162 82 depth to it.
rlm@162 83
rlm@162 84 - <<2016-04-05 Tue>> antibiotic multiplicity :: we shouldn't use use
rlm@162 85 one antibiotic, or cycle them or any of that nonsense. If
rlm@162 86 someone has a problem, give them ALL the antibiotics at once,
rlm@162 87 getting exponentially better chances of killing everything. Say
rlm@162 88 you have two antibiotics with a 0.1 chance of becomming useless
rlm@162 89 everytime you use it to cure someone. The antibiotics are
rlm@162 90 independent molecular mechanisms so it takes two chance
rlm@162 91 mutations to confer immunity. If you use one till it's useless,
rlm@162 92 then the other one, then it takes around 20 times before you're
rlm@162 93 out of antibiotics. If you use both its more like 200 times!
rlm@162 94
rlm@162 95 - <<2016-04-05 Tue>> are animals chronically tired :: I wonder if
rlm@162 96 animals get enough sleep? Maybe not -- after all, they wouldn't
rlm@162 97 necesairly be able to go for 8 hours even if they needed it. And
rlm@162 98 the quality of sleep would be very bad if you're always on
rlm@162 99 edge. I think that a lot of animals look tired a lot of the
rlm@162 100 time. Perhaps in addition to our ability to cook food as a
rlm@162 101 surrogate for our digestive system, our ability to sleep in a
rlm@162 102 confortable, safe place for 8+ hours enabled similar economies
rlm@162 103 for our mental systems! The "comfy" theory of human
rlm@162 104 intelligence/evolution.
rlm@162 105
rlm@162 106 - <<2016-04-02 Sat>> live to a billion seconds :: it's 31 years, 251
rlm@162 107 days, 13 hours, 34 minutes, 54.7843 seconds or something
rlm@162 108
rlm@162 109 - <<2016-04-02 Sat>> hyperlinked physical writing :: you scan in some
rlm@162 110 (handwritten) text and make some of the words hyperlinks. looks
rlm@162 111 incongrous. or an old newspaper clipping from like the 1930's as
rlm@162 112 a pdf, and it has a random hyperlink in it!
rlm@162 113
rlm@162 114 - <<2016-04-01 Fri>> super emulsified transparent manyonase ::
rlm@162 115
rlm@162 116 - <<2016-04-01 Fri>> osmium as a EM catalyst :: cause you can recover
rlm@162 117 it see 1978
rlm@162 118
rlm@162 119 - <<2016-04-01 Fri>> the mind sword of osmium :: uploading, use
rlm@162 120 osmium as a catalyst, make cool sword that's processed a billion
rlm@162 121 human minds
rlm@162 122
rlm@162 123 - <<2016-03-27 Sun>> hay fever straws :: normally you call them
rlm@162 124 "sneezes" but if you have hay fever then you should call them
rlm@162 125 "straws." :P
rlm@162 126
rlm@162 127 - <<2016-03-27 Sun>> the same blue sky :: when I look at the sky, and
rlm@162 128 there's no clouds, then I'm connected the eternity of all the
rlm@162 129 creatures who looked up and saw the same sky. I wonder if you
rlm@162 130 could look up at the sky, then look back down and be in a
rlm@162 131 different time, a different place.
rlm@162 132
rlm@162 133 - <<2016-03-25 Fri>> fear of number quantity :: people can be scared
rlm@162 134 of one thing, two things, etc, but what about 51 things. this
rlm@162 135 might reveal the limits of object counting. How do there numbers
rlm@162 136 distribute around the population? Is there a spike at numbers
rlm@162 137 like 13?
rlm@162 138
rlm@162 139 - <<2016-03-24 Thu>> water-resistant suit and CPA tube :: so classy,
rlm@162 140 to pop out of a cryo chamber and have the water fall off your
rlm@162 141 suit like in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Udw0RriGrI
rlm@162 142
rlm@162 143 - <<2016-03-24 Thu>> perfuse cryoprotectants into hibernating ground squirrell ::
rlm@162 144
rlm@162 145 - <<2016-03-24 Thu>> active biological camaflogue :: inspired by the
rlm@162 146 mormyrid electric fish paper by *mumble*. What if you were an
rlm@162 147 octopus that could change skin color, and then you combine your
rlm@162 148 vision, skin, and motor outputs to compute what the skin should
rlm@162 149 look like as you move your arms around; you could be perfectaly
rlm@162 150 invisible, and wouldn't have to have the skin be "dumb". Very
rlm@162 151 fast changes in light with no pattern would reveal this
rlm@162 152 "bio-computed camaflogue", though, because the skin wouldn't be
rlm@162 153 able to predict things as well.
rlm@162 154
rlm@162 155 - <<2016-03-24 Thu>> vitrified lab :: imagine a lab contained
rlm@162 156 entirely in the glass from which fibre optic cables are
rlm@162 157 made. It's be neat! there'd be no air!
rlm@162 158
rlm@162 159 - <<2016-03-20 Sun>> curare in a fixative :: might stop fixation
rlm@162 160 tremors.
rlm@162 161
rlm@162 162 - <<2016-03-20 Sun>> hidden eyes of god :: it's the year 2020 and the
rlm@162 163 first human brains are beginning to be preserved and scanned as
rlm@162 164 part of the human connectome project. As scientists look at
rlm@162 165 electron micrographs of preserved human brain tissue, they see
rlm@162 166 all the expected brain structures: neurons, synapses,
rlm@162 167 mitochnodria, myelin.... and something that's never been seen
rlm@162 168 before: an intiricate filigree of strutures like the neural
rlm@162 169 weaves from Banks' culture series. Human brain tissue from even
rlm@162 170 50 years ago like Einsteins' does not have the weave, and he
rlm@162 171 weave is only in around 30% of the population. Obviously
rlm@162 172 computational in nature and way advanced beyond anything
rlm@162 173 humanity can build, these secret structures reveal an unsettling
rlm@162 174 truth: something is watching us, from within our own minds...
rlm@162 175
rlm@162 176 - <<2016-03-20 Sun>> encrypted priority server ::
rlm@162 177
rlm@162 178 - <<2016-03-19 Sat>> neuro-speakers :: speakers are the ultimate
rlm@162 179 insturment, most like the human voice. submime. attach to brain
rlm@162 180 and then we can finally sing.
rlm@162 181
rlm@162 182 - <<2016-03-19 Sat>> book with meanings to onlky one person at one time :: like
rlm@162 183 adam kraft's thing about neural nets with images that look
rlm@162 184 nothing like the object but get classified as that object
rlm@162 185 anyway. You could possibly do the same with a human visual
rlm@162 186 system -- imagine a book that looks nothing like static. You
rlm@162 187 look at the pages, and they seem like nonsense, but you also get
rlm@162 188 a /strong/ impression of a scene and meaning, possibly stronger
rlm@162 189 and more direct than a really good painting. And no one else can
rlm@162 190 see it, and you sleep a night, and can't see it yourself in the
rlm@162 191 morning. Like the "communicating with LSD people" thing as well.
rlm@162 192
rlm@162 193 - <<2016-03-17 Thu>> ligand nonpolar osmium lipid stain for perfuse EM ::
rlm@162 194
rlm@162 195 - <<2016-03-15 Tue>> classified documents and mind uploading :: an
rlm@162 196 important value for forgetting!
rlm@162 197
rlm@162 198 - <<2016-03-15 Tue>> furnace random number generator ::
rlm@162 199
rlm@162 200 - <<2016-03-14 Mon>> how does a lobotomy not cause fatal brain embolisms!? ::
rlm@162 201
rlm@161 202 - spinal cord made of light; moon :: transit time of light from moon to
rlm@161 203 earth is same as transit time of signals through spinal cord. So
rlm@161 204 you could have your mind on the moon and your body on earth and
rlm@161 205 it would feel the same!
rlm@161 206
rlm@161 207 - semantic darkmode browser extension :: some websites are naturally
rlm@161 208 dark themed (like aurellem.org) while others are light themed
rlm@161 209 (like google). At night I like dark themes and during daylight I
rlm@161 210 like light themes. You can just invert your screen to convert
rlm@161 211 light to dark, but when tabbing through multiple browser tabs
rlm@161 212 you end up occasionally spraying your screen with bright
rlm@161 213 colors. So, have a little button that inverts a single web page
rlm@161 214 for firefox! Or, you can have a tiny bit of preprocessing (you
rlm@161 215 just measure the overall white vs dark pixels) and then invert
rlm@161 216 the page depending on that.
rlm@161 217
rlm@161 218 - optogenetic readout during cruoprotection :: basically a "lightbulb
rlm@161 219 above the head" to measure activity of selected neurons.
rlm@161 220
rlm@161 221 - carbon dating and immortality :: if you've been /alive/ for a
rlm@161 222 million years, you'll carbon-dat as being as old as yesterday.
rlm@161 223
rlm@161 224 - gas tenderization :: use high pressure and gas diffusion to both
rlm@161 225 denature proteins and infiltrate lots of gas into a piece of
rlm@161 226 meat. Then rapidly decrease the pressure, and the meat will
rlm@161 227 experience air bubbles similarly to bread rising, and might
rlm@161 228 become tender and tasty!
rlm@161 229
rlm@161 230 - learning damage from mind uploading :: a person might be uploaded
rlm@161 231 so that they can answer every question about their life and be
rlm@161 232 able to perform actions they had previously learned, but due to
rlm@161 233 incomplete simulation of long term chemical and structural
rlm@161 234 dynamics, they might have a severe learning disability!
rlm@161 235
rlm@161 236 - holy "spirit" :: most blasphemous liquor
rlm@161 237
rlm@161 238 - truck blindspot lights :: lights that shine on the road and show
rlm@161 239 where your vehicle's blind spots are.
rlm@161 240
rlm@161 241 - eyelid screen :: you can just close you eyes, but you're reading a
rlm@161 242 book. it would be really cool and look like rapid eye
rlm@161 243 movement. In this tech, the screen would replace your eyelid
rlm@161 244 entirely. The other really neat thing about this concept is that
rlm@161 245 your eyelid screen is a part of you. You might have some
rlm@161 246 smooth muscles in it that works like a selection or cursor, and
rlm@161 247 the scren can feel your eye rolling underneath and tell where
rlm@161 248 you're looking, allowing for a very immersive experience. It's
rlm@161 249 like an "all-in" virtual mode, still cleanly separating the real
rlm@161 250 from the digital, telling others you're in your "virtual space",
rlm@161 251 and still looking entirely human.
rlm@161 252
rlm@160 253 - blockchain based experential memory ::
rlm@160 254
rlm@160 255 - a hidden world of early life :: I imagine that the bridge form the
rlm@160 256 first life forms to even very simple single celled organisms was
rlm@160 257 probably very interesting and a lot more diverse than we give it
rlm@160 258 credit for. Unfortunately, I doubt that we're going to find any
rlm@160 259 good evidence for such creatures, since they don't seem like the
rlm@160 260 type of organisms that would preserve well. All sorts of really
rlm@160 261 neat delf replicating molecules and assemblies of molecules, and
rlm@160 262 we'd have no record of any of them. The only way to get an idea
rlm@160 263 of these types of life will be to make them again in the lab.
rlm@160 264
rlm@160 265 - brain insurance :: for the preserved brain
rlm@160 266
rlm@160 267 - remote control ants / pidgeons :: train/evolve them to want to
rlm@160 268 follow an EM gradient or magnetic field. put a camera on.
rlm@160 269
rlm@160 270 - musical neural inversion :: get a simple model of emotional and
rlm@160 271 auditory circuits, "invert" the model based on sound input, and
rlm@160 272 generate music with constrating satisfaction. Might find some
rlm@160 273 music that's simultaneously "alien" (lacking a top-down design)
rlm@160 274 yet still deeply emotionally coherent and satisfying.
rlm@160 275
rlm@160 276 - simulated fire :: for those who say that simulated water can't get
rlm@160 277 you wet, just see what happens if you attach your nerves to
rlm@160 278 simulated output of FIRE. I gaurantee you're going to have a bad
rlm@160 279 time.
rlm@160 280
rlm@160 281 - use lasers to cut large plasticized brains ::
rlm@160 282
rlm@160 283 - gravity telescope the size of the solar system ::
rlm@160 284
rlm@160 285 - information bearing layer :: to find the spatial / logical scale of
rlm@160 286 the main information containing layer of an information storage
rlm@160 287 device, look at where correlated change happens, and then to see
rlm@160 288 if it's digital, look beyond that and see if the changes are
rlm@160 289 uncorrelated.
rlm@160 290
rlm@159 291 - sperm fitness correlation :: it's evolutionary advantageous for a
rlm@159 292 species' sperm to fail to function exactly when the fetus they
rlm@159 293 would create would fail. But it's really hard to make this
rlm@159 294 functoinal correlation happen because the sperm cell only
rlm@159 295 expresses a small subset of the genome. To the extent that thei
rlm@159 296 correlation effect exists, we can reverse it to find
rlm@159 297 "interesting" genes. My guess --- look for genes physiccally
rlm@159 298 next to sperm coding genes.
rlm@159 299
rlm@159 300 - spinal repeater/relay :: a VERY fine mesh of directional paths,
rlm@159 301 much finer than the width of a spinal axon, which can connect a
rlm@159 302 bundle of nerves that has been cut together.
rlm@159 303
rlm@155 304 - auto book ::handwritten by machine; illuminated. Like old medieval
rlm@155 305 books. Use a model of handwriting so the letters are different.
rlm@154 306
rlm@155 307 - url resolver :: pick the longest vaid url that's a rooted substring
rlm@155 308 of the requested URL. unambigupously corrects for links that
rlm@155 309 have things like periods and ending parens at the end of a link.
rlm@155 310
rlm@155 311 - soul black marble :: for existential threats, what if solu magic
rlm@155 312 was true, and undertale whatever, destroy the world
rlm@155 313
rlm@155 314 - heart preservation + heart bypass to allow time for healing :: you
rlm@155 315 cryopreserve a heart, then "recondition" it inside the patient
rlm@155 316 while under bypass to allow time for it to heal.
rlm@155 317
rlm@155 318 - intelligent microwave osmium perfusion w/ CAT scan ::
rlm@155 319
rlm@155 320 - assembling new word-sounding words by concatenation and random deletion ::
rlm@155 321
rlm@155 322 - amber brain preservation? :: would this work, without having to do
rlm@155 323 the heavy metal bits? Maybe chemical fixation with aldehydes
rlm@155 324 followed by hot amber and then high pressure for several months?
rlm@155 325
rlm@155 326 - zappy fat ::
rlm@155 327
rlm@155 328 - electrocaloric effect :: see
rlm@155 329 https://dx.doi.org/10.1146%2Fannurev-matsci-062910-100341,
rlm@155 330 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocaloric_effect][wikipedia article]]
rlm@155 331
rlm@155 332 - albino fruit ::
rlm@155 333
rlm@162 334 - cryoprotectant that increases the nutritional value of food ::
rlm@155 335
rlm@155 336 - faucet enerty :: how much power do you get from an average faucet
rlm@155 337 compared to the wall socket?
rlm@155 338
rlm@155 339 - high pressure fixation :: could this defeat the "myelin unraveling"
rlm@155 340 problem? Maybe -- if the "unraveling" is actually BUBBLES like
rlm@155 341 you might get during the bends, caused by the fixation reaction!
rlm@155 342
rlm@155 343 - eat fixed tissue :: can you EAT glutaraldehyde preserved tissue, if
rlm@155 344 you wash away all the free aldehydes and make sure that the
rlm@155 345 reaction is complete? Can you also cook the tissue? Maybe it
rlm@162 346 would be good! it would certainly be a very powerful
rlm@162 347 preservative! maybe see
rlm@162 348 http://www.aapd.org/assets/1/25/Karp-09-04.pdf
rlm@155 349
rlm@155 350 - intelligence sorting ::
rlm@155 351
rlm@155 352 - hyperbaric fixation :: apparently with divers with the "bends", you
rlm@155 353 get bubbles in the myelin in particular. Maybe hyperbaric
rlm@155 354 fixation would be able to eliminate these bubbles!
rlm@155 355
rlm@155 356 - blood + cryoprotectant :: might be more gentle than normal things?
rlm@155 357 Why not use it? (b/c you might need extracellular ion
rlm@155 358 concentrations), also zeta potentials! But you could filter the
rlm@155 359 blood, and get a lot from a slaughterhouse perhaps.
rlm@155 360
rlm@155 361 - the matrix has a "lord of space" and a "muse of time" ::
rlm@155 362
rlm@155 363 - ultra fast fluorocarbon cooling :: perfuse brain w/ cryoprotectant,
rlm@155 364 cool to -20°C. Then clear out everything w/ fluorocarbon (or
rlm@155 365 something else that doesn't interact w/ cells and has very low
rlm@155 366 viscosoty at low temperatures), and then immediately switch to
rlm@155 367 fluorocarbon at around -135°C. Should very quickly cool the
rlm@155 368 brain (even faster than persufflation!) and would also avoid the
rlm@155 369 dehydration problems associated w/ persufflation. Even better,
rlm@155 370 you have a mechanism for rapidly warming the brain --
rlm@155 371 immediately switch to warm fluorocarbon. Everything is always
rlm@155 372 still liquid and pressurized. Should buy you a couple % decrease
rlm@155 373 in CPA toxicity.
rlm@155 374
rlm@155 375 - gameboy IR link over wifi through emilation ::
rlm@155 376
rlm@155 377 - living memory is the start of history :: the natural dividing line
rlm@155 378 is between living and dead history, and is created retroactively
rlm@155 379 with the advent of brain preservation technology and then
rlm@155 380 realized by mind uploading. It can still creep forward from
rlm@155 381 death of individuals. We're still living in pre-history!
rlm@155 382
rlm@155 383 - the memory of God is the soul :: mind-uploading + christian
rlm@155 384 theology ==> the soul falls out nicely from omniscience.
rlm@155 385
rlm@155 386 - alternating stir plate :: a magnetic stir bar that alternates back
rlm@155 387 and forth. Is it more efficient?
rlm@155 388
rlm@155 389 - rsync with md5 (or whatever) database :: Now if you're rsync'ing
rlm@155 390 something over to the server, if the file matches something
rlm@155 391 already on the server, then it gets copied over from wherever it
rlm@155 392 is on the server (then each block's signature is checked like
rlm@155 393 with normal rsync, so that you get exactly the same behaviour).
rlm@155 394
rlm@155 395 - mvln :: uses a backing database to gaurantee that when you move a
rlm@155 396 folder, that all the links that point to it can remain
rlm@155 397 consistent across your system.
rlm@155 398
rlm@155 399 - centrifugal drinking :: spin the bottle around and tubes from the
rlm@155 400 bottom convey drink up to the top. (don't know why I came up
rlm@155 401 with this one...)
rlm@155 402
rlm@155 403 - DRACOS at single cell stage :: you splice the genes for DRACOS into
rlm@155 404 a single human cell at the first stage of development. Then all
rlm@155 405 the cells of the person that cell will eventually become will
rlm@155 406 automatically produce DRACOS (and the DRACOS will be recognized
rlm@155 407 as "self" by the immune system. This creates a powerful
rlm@155 408 secondary immune system which will make the person immune to
rlm@155 409 almost all viruses.
rlm@155 410
rlm@155 411 - toilet + fume hood :: because it's dumb to have the entire bathroom
rlm@155 412 be a sort of fume hood.
rlm@155 413
rlm@155 414 - wind speed force :: two wind socks one weighted. The angle between
rlm@155 415 them tells you the force of the wind.
rlm@154 416
rlm@154 417 - sshfs to mount root :: you can mount your own root filesystem
rlm@154 418 somewhere else using sshfs. Sort of "normalizes" file
rlm@154 419 permissions without having to use root, and is weird. Could also
rlm@154 420 bypass rm =--preserve-root= restrictions and delete entire
rlm@154 421 filesystem.
rlm@154 422
rlm@154 423 #+BEGIN_SRC sh
rlm@154 424 sshfs root@localhost:/ my-root
rlm@154 425 #+END_SRC
rlm@154 426
rlm@162 427 - not even a nop of damage :: nop == no-op
rlm@154 428
rlm@162 429 - twittwe vibratoe ::
rlm@154 430
rlm@162 431 - value of cancer :: what of value is lost with an easy cancer-cure?
rlm@154 432
rlm@162 433 - blood :: blood is the "wires" that connect organs to each other and
rlm@162 434 impedance match the services that organs provide to other
rlm@162 435 organs. A heart, per se, does not need blood but instead access
rlm@162 436 to the filtering powers of a kidney; blood just connects the
rlm@162 437 kidney cells to the heart cells. That's why "perfusing w/ blood"
rlm@162 438 is entirely missing the point.
rlm@154 439
rlm@162 440 - armored helmet :: use fiber-optics to re-route vision and get better
rlm@162 441 shield for eyes. curved plates, kozilek style.
rlm@154 442
rlm@162 443 - open source contributions :: way to make them public on your website easily.
rlm@154 444
rlm@162 445 - active opto-glove :: for ENHANCED touch! It's a magnyfing glass for
rlm@162 446 your fingers!
rlm@154 447
rlm@162 448 - glove screen :: for driving directions, etc. Better than a watch!
rlm@154 449
rlm@162 450 - osmium + sugar as a histo stain :: the suger interacts with the
rlm@162 451 osmium and retards its progress. you can see details on slices in
rlm@162 452 a light microscope without any more staining, and the EMs are not
rlm@162 453 adversely affected.
rlm@154 454
rlm@162 455 - encryption camera :: use public key on memory card. The camera
rlm@162 456 writes files encrypted with this public key.
rlm@154 457
rlm@162 458 - immaculate AIDS acquisition ::
rlm@154 459
rlm@162 460 - minds and lightspeed :: fastern minds have to deal with lightspeed
rlm@162 461 limitations in their own cognitive architectures.
rlm@154 462
rlm@162 463 - kill with fire :: guy A fires fire blast, with a spell circle to
rlm@162 464 maintain the magic. Opponent B just GRABS the magic and pulls MORE
rlm@162 465 fire. Guy A's circle goes out of control and all his life force
rlm@162 466 gets sucked out to supply more fire. B grabs the magic, crushes
rlm@162 467 it, fires a concentrated red lightning bolt, and eats the
rlm@162 468 rest. "You think that you can kill me, WITH FIRE!?"
rlm@154 469
rlm@162 470 - magic ekiga ::
rlm@154 471
rlm@162 472 - edible crayons ::
rlm@154 473
rlm@162 474 - library chaining ::
rlm@155 475
rlm@162 476 - hypnosis + that drug that makes you loose continuity :: can the
rlm@162 477 hypnosos plant things during this time?
rlm@154 478
rlm@162 479 - forgotten services :: use "ovbilion" somehow. Some sleeping drugs
rlm@162 480 make you forget the hour or so before you go to bed. Use this to
rlm@162 481 create forgotten services.
rlm@154 482
rlm@162 483 - dibenzelene -- mike darwin ::
rlm@154 484
rlm@162 485 - sleepy perfusion :: if brains naturally expand / contract depending
rlm@162 486 on resting / awake state, we should investigate the EMs of brains
rlm@162 487 fixed during "sleep" mode and those fixed during "awake"
rlm@162 488 mode. (while still using anesthetic of course).
rlm@154 489
rlm@162 490 - shit flavored dog treats :: because dogs would probably like them.
rlm@154 491
rlm@162 492 - fume hood incense :: so make sure the fume hood is working
rlm@154 493
rlm@162 494 - infinity coin :: s.f. concept -- billions are uploaded by using
rlm@162 495 osmium as a "mind uploading catalyst". osmium is put ino the
rlm@162 496 brain, they brain is scanned, and the osmium is recycled. Then
rlm@162 497 you make coins out of the osmium that has gone through billions
rlm@162 498 of these cycles.
rlm@154 499
rlm@162 500 - mamilian dive reflex as a method of preparing organs for cryopreservation ::
rlm@154 501
rlm@162 502 - spinal encryption :: like an X server, except your body parts each
rlm@162 503 run these servers. You all have clocks, and you have to sign your
rlm@162 504 muscle commands with your private key in order to control your
rlm@162 505 body.
rlm@154 506
rlm@162 507 - suicide note as a mental excercise :: from NPR, ted talk, teenagers, etc.
rlm@154 508
rlm@162 509 - microscope clamp magnet ring thing ::
rlm@154 510
rlm@162 511 - cup that fills from the bottom :: (you put it on a thing and it starts filling
rlm@154 512
rlm@162 513 - pronouncaeble liscense plates :: (just avoid certain unpronounceable combinations of letters/numbers. It doesn't even change the search space much!)
rlm@154 514
rlm@162 515 - instant-awake vs natural awakening :: cognitive behavioural
rlm@162 516 difference tells you important things about the waking process.
rlm@154 517
rlm@162 518 - asethetics and personal identity :: if you go to germany, you're not
rlm@162 519 the same person anymore.
rlm@154 520
rlm@162 521 - arch linux diff cache :: should only download differences between
rlm@162 522 the new package and the most rcent archive file. Can
rlm@162 523 precalculate. Would make mirrors/upgrading so much faster.
rlm@154 524
rlm@162 525 - low gravity perfusion :: then you can use cappaliary action. From
rlm@162 526 this: http://www.wired.com/2015/01/coffee-cup-designed-let-astronauts-sip-espresso-space/
rlm@154 527
rlm@162 528 - rational advertiting :: a new criteria for advertisting -- given
rlm@162 529 same ad structure for two different produces, what structure
rlm@162 530 leads to the most people picking the "optimal" choice.
rlm@154 531
rlm@162 532 - autoclone bootstrapping :: to breed male with self: you make a clone
rlm@162 533 of the male that's broken, male and female, the bootstrap with
rlm@162 534 those gametes
rlm@154 535
rlm@162 536 - position independent numbers :: like latin for numbers. You'd use
rlm@162 537 color, endings, relative size, etc to determine what place the
rlm@162 538 number has. Very convientnt for order or magnitude calculations.
rlm@154 539
rlm@162 540 - dead man switch activated linux user account ::
rlm@154 541
rlm@162 542 - embowlement :: condencending reference to embodiment
rlm@154 543
rlm@162 544 - water staff :: drinksy walking staff w/ water
rlm@154 545
rlm@162 546 - melanin transfection ::
rlm@154 547
rlm@162 548 - retention of neurotransmitters / other small molecules during fixation by use of an extracellular polymer such as PVP ::
rlm@154 549
rlm@162 550 - machines :: Knowing we are machines does not diminish us; instead it
rlm@162 551 opens our minds to the awe-inspiring complexity that is the human
rlm@162 552 mind. Those who prefer to attribute consciousness to a "soul" or
rlm@162 553 other metaphysical process are the ones who diminish man to a
rlm@162 554 mere cartoon caricature.
rlm@154 555
rlm@162 556 - why does glut change osmotic setpoints in cells :: perhaps either 1)
rlm@162 557 It makes the membrane permeable to small molecules or 2)
rlm@162 558 crosslinking proteins means less colagative effects.
rlm@154 559
rlm@162 560 - Hemocyanin based blood washout solution :: for artificial blood, it
rlm@162 561 can be hard to carry enough oxygen because haemoglobin needs to
rlm@162 562 be in RBCs in order to effectively carry oxygen. However,
rlm@162 563 hemocyanin, a copper based oxygen carrying protein, doesn't have
rlm@162 564 this restriction, so it might make particurally good artificial
rlm@162 565 blood. Might also be great for making oxygenated fixative
rlm@162 566 solutions! In fact, hemocyanin is more efficient than hemoglobin
rlm@162 567 for carrying oxygen at low temperatures, perfect for
rlm@162 568 cooling/blood washout! Hemocyanin could also serve to establish
rlm@162 569 oncotic pressure in a blood washout solution since it weighs 75
rlm@162 570 kilodaltons.
rlm@154 571
rlm@162 572 - osmotic buffer :: polymer which polymerizes / splits apart in order
rlm@162 573 to maintain the osmolality of a solution.
rlm@154 574
rlm@162 575 - shoes w/ embedded computers :: and have little clickey things you
rlm@162 576 operate with your big toe.
rlm@154 577
rlm@162 578 - gb codec ::
rlm@154 579
rlm@162 580 - ultrasonic cell disruptor to make foor ::
rlm@154 581
rlm@162 582 - particle accelarator asd an awesome electron microscop ::
rlm@154 583
rlm@162 584 - tolouadine blue pen :: use biological stains as dyes for ink pens?
rlm@154 585
rlm@162 586 - clock stop explination :: you have a "visual buffer" which needs to
rlm@162 587 fill up whenever you switch out from one scene to another. This
rlm@162 588 is the clock stop illusion.
rlm@154 589
rlm@162 590 - coffee ad space :: Your coffee stock was brought to you by google,
rlm@162 591 the only company that brings you comfort and love in your harsh
rlm@162 592 and heartless corporate world. This is majestic guerrila
rlm@162 593 marketing.
rlm@154 594
rlm@162 595 - geo-synchro browsing :: you get a bunch of proxy servers, and then
rlm@162 596 you visit websites and synchronize the views from each of these
rlm@162 597 proxies into one view. Then you can see the differences by
rlm@162 598 conutry/region. This is a way to experience the "neutral"
rlm@162 599 internet by averging the effects of ip-tracing.
rlm@154 600
rlm@162 601 - periodic table of genders :: arrange people by bahaviour, particular
rlm@162 602 what sort of bonds they can form with other people.
rlm@154 603
rlm@162 604 - ice cream protein synthesis ::
rlm@154 605
rlm@162 606 - colored EM :: different heavy metals might possibly have different
rlm@162 607 intensities for different electron acceleration voltages. So this
rlm@162 608 could be the basis for colored EM images!
rlm@154 609
rlm@162 610 - expansion microscopy dual :: this would be a process where you
rlm@162 611 define a molecular scale object using larger microscopic
rlm@162 612 components. Then nanotechnology goes through and replaces each
rlm@162 613 "atomic macro block" with the appropriate atomic construct. That
rlm@162 614 way you can use microscopic 3D printing and a special purpose
rlm@162 615 form of nanotechnolical assembler to create any molecular
rlm@162 616 arrangement.
rlm@154 617
rlm@162 618 - anoxic glut :: what happens when you try to fix tissues in an
rlm@162 619 environment completely devoid of oxygen?
rlm@154 620
rlm@162 621 - copper+EG :: if RBCs are rendered impermeabale to EG when Cu is
rlm@162 622 present, then maybe you can destroy RBCs by a mixture of EG and
rlm@162 623 Cu?
rlm@154 624
rlm@162 625 - qualia intuition explained :: let's say that you lacked the sense of
rlm@162 626 smell. How could you learn what "acrid" means without it. How
rlm@162 627 could you explain it to someone, without analogy to other
rlm@162 628 smells. We mind-project this real linguistic separation into
rlm@162 629 reality and get qualia.
rlm@154 630
rlm@162 631 - spinal relay :: you have a small air-gapped repeater built into your
rlm@162 632 spine in order to help with spinal injury, connect with
rlm@162 633 prosthetics, and to monitor/control your body. Also, you could
rlm@162 634 add the ability to save "macros"!
rlm@153 635
rlm@162 636 - human cysts :: there should be communities of people with varying
rlm@162 637 enforced separations from the rest of society in order to gaurd
rlm@162 638 against various catastrophies.
rlm@153 639
rlm@162 640 - bioelectric synthesis :: have a device which stores a lot of energy,
rlm@162 641 and processes blood by creating sugar from waste produces over
rlm@162 642 the day. You still need water, vitamins, minerals, etc, but this
rlm@162 643 can handle the bulk of your energy demands and be recharged from
rlm@162 644 the wall.
rlm@153 645
rlm@162 646 - chelation as a method to improve cryoprotectant permeability ::
rlm@153 647
rlm@162 648 - transgender fruit analogy :: like tomatoes
rlm@153 649
rlm@162 650 - video game controllers as actual controllers :: console controlers
rlm@162 651 like the n64 trident are excellent, durable tools for fine
rlm@162 652 control. We should use them to control all sorts of things like
rlm@162 653 robots by default. You should use it for your projects, since
rlm@162 654 it's unlikely you'll be able to come up with something
rlm@162 655 better. Compared to console controllers, the ones we use for
rlm@162 656 robots/RC stuff are hopelessly clunky.
rlm@153 657
rlm@162 658 - bubble computers :: bubble duality, bubble computing
rlm@153 659
rlm@162 660 - dark blood bag :: blood bags in hospitals should be dark colored to
rlm@162 661 protect the blood from damage from light.
rlm@153 662
rlm@162 663 - chimeric homozygous sex chromosomes :: chimeric organism with XX and
rlm@162 664 XX patterns from two males and two females. On average, it has
rlm@162 665 the correct methylation pattern. Would it work?
rlm@153 666
rlm@162 667 - horseshoe blood fixative :: would it work as a washout?
rlm@153 668
rlm@162 669 - fixed protein packets :: group of fixed proteins in a network which
rlm@162 670 is used as medicine. Hemoglovin, maybe?
rlm@153 671
rlm@162 672 - prove hauntings :: website where you enter your pgp signed encrypted
rlm@162 673 file and swear by all the gods that you'll haunt me with the
rlm@162 674 password when you die, along with whatever other messages you
rlm@162 675 have. protocol -- I video, throw rock, get password.
rlm@153 676
rlm@162 677 - earth air water :: probably all intelligent species name their
rlm@162 678 planet "dirt" in their language, unless the're aquatic or flying,
rlm@162 679 then they'd name it "water" and "air" respectively.
rlm@153 680
rlm@162 681 - ethylene glycol alt name :: icebane
rlm@153 682
rlm@162 683 - overflow hiaku :: a hiku about buffer overflos, with garbage C code
rlm@162 684 inside.
rlm@153 685
rlm@162 686 - white knight :: his sword is named "Privledge" (an inherited family
rlm@162 687 sword) he rides along the land, defending the code of
rlm@162 688 chivralirary and keeping the orthodozy of society from fading
rlm@162 689 from the realm.
rlm@153 690
rlm@162 691 - technological deflation :: even the richest robber baron from the
rlm@162 692 1920's could not afford a cardiac bypass surgery, even with
rlm@162 693 literally all the money they had. As technology advances, the
rlm@162 694 price of bread may go up, but the capabilities which money gives
rlm@162 695 you also dramatically increase.
rlm@153 696
rlm@162 697 - mental integrity test :: if your brain starts to decay, you might
rlm@162 698 not notice the damage until it's too late. This would be a mental
rlm@162 699 integrity test that you take every few weeks that measures your
rlm@162 700 performance and compares it to a baseline. The tests are all
rlm@162 701 designed to catch the early signs of degenerative brain
rlm@162 702 diseases. For example, you might use performamce on a
rlm@162 703 smell-memory assoaction test to detect early-onset Alzheimer's.
rlm@153 704
rlm@162 705 - mind bank :: (in contrast to "brain bank")
rlm@153 706
rlm@162 707 - scientist online paper reviews ::
rlm@152 708
rlm@162 709 - binary feedback ::like with the soda machine
rlm@152 710
rlm@162 711 - trolley cryonics :: change the cryonics protocol around so that the
rlm@162 712 death occurs in a non-primary action loop.
rlm@152 713
rlm@162 714 - binary metric :: you make up new unit names for "2 centimeters", "4
rlm@162 715 centimeters", "16 centimeters", etc. Then no one will be happy!
rlm@162 716 BUT, it helps solve metric's problem of intermediate units. (a
rlm@162 717 centimeter is too small, a meter is too large!)
rlm@152 718
rlm@162 719 - do it once -- upload ::
rlm@152 720
rlm@162 721 - *##### ENTRIES PAST THIS LINE HAVE BEEN PROCESSED FOR GOOD IDEAS #####*
rlm@152 722
rlm@162 723 - a simple merge procedure for uploads ::
rlm@152 724
rlm@162 725 - cure for color blindness :: could it be possible to administer some
rlm@162 726 retroviruses via direct injection to the retina, to cause some of
rlm@162 727 the cells in the retina to begin expressing different color
rlm@162 728 pigments? The brain ought to easily sort out the rest and enable
rlm@162 729 color vision. Furthremore, could we add some more colors to
rlm@162 730 baesline human eyes? Theory -- people who are color blind have
rlm@162 731 better color spatial accuity for the colors they can see, because
rlm@162 732 this it the tradeoff here involved with the retrovirus
rlm@162 733 therapy. Re-purposing color detectors to see new colors at the
rlm@162 734 expense of spatial acuity for the old set of colors.
rlm@152 735
rlm@162 736 - Passion of the Christ missed opportunity :: in the Passion of the
rlm@162 737 Christ, they do the entire show using Latin, Aramaic, etc, with
rlm@162 738 subtitles. They should have had a part where Jesus does the
rlm@162 739 sermon on the mount, he turns to the camera, and starts speaking
rlm@162 740 in English, with no subtitles. It would have been 1.) biblically
rlm@162 741 accurate and 2.) awesome. It would have been such a powerful
rlm@162 742 example of Jesus' divinity, and it felt like they were setting up
rlm@162 743 for it the entire movie, and they missed it!
rlm@152 744
rlm@162 745 - xenobiotic methalation rewriting ::
rlm@152 746
rlm@162 747 - physical pgp signatures :: someone should put together the
rlm@162 748 technologies so that you can digitally sign actual pieces of
rlm@162 749 paper -- some combination of signing a photograph of the
rlm@162 750 contract using pgp, printing a barcode or OR code on the page
rlm@162 751 which links to a website with the signed image, and a web of
rlm@162 752 trust model so that people can authenticate as themselves. All
rlm@162 753 this totally exists already, it's just not convienent.
rlm@152 754
rlm@162 755 - meta eye :: you wire in a third optical input to the human brain,
rlm@162 756 but it doesn't tranduce light form the real world, bus instead is
rlm@162 757 connected to the "internet of things" and shows you metadata
rlm@162 758 about things you are looking at // serves as an interface to your
rlm@162 759 own mind and body. Then eventually simply real things without
rlm@162 760 metadata seem flat and fake compared to the objects in cities and
rlm@162 761 other annotated areas. This third eye doesn't occupy any of your
rlm@162 762 normal visual field but actually EXPANDS your visual field.
rlm@152 763
rlm@162 764 - limits of monogamy ::
rlm@152 765
rlm@162 766 - dream rewinding :: how to record a complete dream without disturbing
rlm@162 767 it or modifying your brain? you need to be an upload: split
rlm@162 768 yourself, and one of you stays awake whike the other sleeps. then
rlm@162 769 you detect a dream in progress by monotoring rapid eye movememt
rlm@162 770 in your sleeping self, and you wake yourself up every few minutes
rlm@162 771 and tell yoursef about the dream. Then sleeping-your restarts the
rlm@162 772 dream, continuation passing style, forgetting everything that was
rlm@162 773 just said, and you repeat this process until the dream is
rlm@162 774 over. Then awake-you and sleeping-you merge each other by taking
rlm@162 775 sleeping-you and replaying the memories of awake-you, and you
rlm@162 776 write a final report on the dream using the "saccade" reports to
rlm@162 777 jog your memory.
rlm@152 778
rlm@162 779 - denser than osmium :: do the "misicibility" thing with an osmium
rlm@162 780 alloy to get something even more dense.
rlm@147 781
rlm@162 782 - AI hypnosis :: hypnosis might be good for studying AI, becuse it
rlm@162 783 might probide a "debugger" for ananlyzing the human mind. I
rlm@162 784 briefly tried this while at MIT, but it needs MUCH more work to
rlm@162 785 be properly evaulated.
rlm@145 786
rlm@162 787 - becomming alive :: upload faces challenges to grow into they type of
rlm@162 788 person that can join the greater society -- a god. They have to
rlm@162 789 go though quests that replicate all the things that humanity had
rlm@162 790 to accomplish, like going to the moon, by themselves, in a
rlm@162 791 virtual world where they cannot die and never get tired.
rlm@145 792
rlm@162 793 - population distorted map of USA :: to see states sizes in terms of #
rlm@162 794 of people. (already exists!
rlm@162 795 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/cart/doc/)
rlm@145 796
rlm@162 797 - butterfly drone :: if big butterflies used to exist, then maybe we
rlm@162 798 could make butterfly-inspired drones!
rlm@145 799
rlm@162 800 - methylation sex symmetry breaking :: So, human cells have
rlm@162 801 methylation patterns that encode male/female origin. If you
rlm@162 802 combine two male patterns, the fetus grows "too fast" and
rlm@162 803 dies. Two female patterns causes the fetus to enter a "vegatable"
rlm@162 804 state and fail to develop. Evolutionary biologists will say that
rlm@162 805 this reflects the asymmetry of energy investement for creating
rlm@162 806 offspring. If that's true, then species that cast-spawn will lack
rlm@162 807 this symmetry, and give clues about how to remove it in
rlm@162 808 humans. If even cast spawners like sea urchins have it, then that
rlm@162 809 means there's something deeper going on!
rlm@145 810
rlm@162 811 - reverse cannulation perfusion :: you put the organ you want to
rlm@162 812 perfuse in an airtight chamber with a pool of the stuff you want
rlm@162 813 to perfuse. You cannulate some veins and lead tubes form to
rlm@162 814 outside of the chamber. You pump in air and perfusate, and the
rlm@162 815 increasing air pressure in the chamber forces perfusate through
rlm@162 816 the organ. For times when you don't want to cannulate the inputs
rlm@162 817 -- they can be ragged, or there can be many of them. You still
rlm@162 818 have to guide the veins to the outside of the chamber, but
rlm@162 819 depending on the use case this might be far easier than
rlm@162 820 tradational cannulation.
rlm@145 821
rlm@162 822 - very slow physiological pressure perfusion :: less extreme example
rlm@162 823 of the "pausing" trick -- just keep the perfusion running and
rlm@162 824 don't put the perfusion target into the liquid as deep.
rlm@141 825
rlm@162 826 - whole brain perfusion embedding :: Do the standard EM embedding
rlm@162 827 protocol, but skip the osmium step, and use the "perfusion
rlm@162 828 pausing" method to prevent overextraction during the dehydration
rlm@162 829 and embedding steps. I think that you CAN perfuse resins into the
rlm@162 830 brain, simply because you CAN perfuse viscous rubber when doing
rlm@162 831 vascular casts.
rlm@141 832
rlm@162 833 - perfusion pausing :: (Turns out this won't actually work!) One
rlm@162 834 problem with doing perfusion is that if you STOP the perfusion,
rlm@162 835 you rapidly loose pressure in the organ as your perfusate leaks
rlm@162 836 out. You can prevent this by submerging the organ/head/rat
rlm@162 837 whatever in FLUID at the appropriate level. Use something inert
rlm@162 838 like flurocarbon to avoid problems. You would have to slowly
rlm@162 839 decrease the flow rate while simultaneously lowering the
rlm@162 840 perfusing object into the fluid. To start again, reverse the
rlm@162 841 process -- reengage the peristaltic pump slowly while removing
rlm@162 842 the organ from the fluid.
rlm@141 843
rlm@162 844 - evoultionary textbook mimiricy :: as surgery becomes more common,
rlm@162 845 there develops a distinct selective pressure for individuals
rlm@162 846 organ layout to look more like the medical textbooks! :P
rlm@141 847
rlm@162 848 - transparent skin :: temporary / permament transparent skin. Allows
rlm@162 849 for examination of organs / muscles and visual prevention of
rlm@162 850 disease and detection or abnormalities / good things
rlm@162 851 eg. excercise.
rlm@141 852
rlm@162 853 - sweet information :: candy with a whole book written in it. Eat a
rlm@162 854 book!
rlm@141 855
rlm@162 856 - targeted immunosuppressant :: just kill off the B-cells and friends
rlm@162 857 that would cause problems in a organ-transplant / other
rlm@162 858 situation. AIDS is good at killing these cells -- maybe make it
rlm@162 859 just target the ones that will cause problems. Then you can
rlm@162 860 premptively kill off that part of someone's immune system before
rlm@162 861 a transplant. ALSO, you can kill off everyone's defenses against
rlm@162 862 other blood types and make people effectively type AB+ w.r.t
rlm@162 863 blood transfusions. Actually, why not give babies this treatment
rlm@162 864 so that they're automatically compatable with all blood types?
rlm@162 865 The immune system has this already when it's first growing; maybe
rlm@162 866 it can be "retrained" to accept new things, or the mechanism of
rlm@162 867 immune cell death be co-opted for these purposes.
rlm@141 868
rlm@162 869 - fuck you tetris :: tetris that actively gives you the worst possible piece.
rlm@140 870
rlm@162 871 - pockets :: more things should have them!
rlm@140 872
rlm@162 873 - colored shower head :: a shower head add on that measures the temp
rlm@162 874 of the water and changes the color of the water streams w/ an LED
rlm@162 875 to show you the temperature. That way you can align to the color
rlm@162 876 you want and see the temperature without feeling it.
rlm@140 877
rlm@162 878 - giant dragonflies :: we could rapidly MAKE giant dragonflies by
rlm@162 879 evolving modern dragonflies in an very oxygen rich environment!
rlm@140 880
rlm@162 881 - anesthetic surgery courtesty video :: as a matter of courtesy,
rlm@162 882 whenever you go under anesthetic, the doctors should provide you
rlm@162 883 with a video of the surgery / recovery after you are concious
rlm@162 884 again. The recording should begin about 3 minutes before
rlm@162 885 anesthetic, and continue until both you and the docor agree to
rlm@162 886 stop recording, or you leave the hospital.
rlm@140 887
rlm@162 888 - whirlpool of light :: shine a laser out into space. But the planet
rlm@162 889 is spinning! What you get is a spiral or light! And as this
rlm@162 890 signal expands, does it eventually reveal it's wuantized nature?
rlm@140 891
rlm@162 892 - perfusion coking :: EOM
rlm@140 893
rlm@162 894 - timestamp verification :: you sign your message, and it has a
rlm@162 895 timestamp at the top, with a +- percision number. Then you send
rlm@162 896 it over to the public timestamp server, which only signs the
rlm@162 897 message if it gets the message within the timestamp window. Or
rlm@162 898 the computer just signs the message but puts a timestamp at the
rlm@162 899 beginning. So if everyone trusts the timestamp server, you can
rlm@162 900 get reliable timestamps, and prove priority on ideas, etc.
rlm@139 901
rlm@162 902 - the great computing slow-down :: in general, our computers are
rlm@162 903 getting faster and faster. However, eventually our brains will be
rlm@162 904 made of the same stuff our computers are made of! This has very
rlm@162 905 interesting consequences -- I can add 2+2 and get four in about a
rlm@162 906 second. Since my neurons actually work at around 10-60 hertz in
rlm@162 907 parallel, this means that it takes me around 10-30 operations to
rlm@162 908 do this addition. That's actually not bad in terms of computing
rlm@162 909 time. If my neurons were as fast as the latest transitors, then
rlm@162 910 most calculators would be SLOWER than me at adding numbers. Only
rlm@162 911 the newest, most optimized calculators would be faster, and then
rlm@162 912 only about 10 times faster! This means that once we begin to
rlm@162 913 think at the speed of our technology, that technology will
rlm@162 914 suddenly seem pitifully slow in comparison to how it seems
rlm@162 915 now. And no amount of technical progress will remedy it, because
rlm@162 916 that same progress will also make us all think faster. We'll
rlm@162 917 either have to settle with living in "slow time" to do some
rlm@162 918 computations, or learn to make smarter hardware with special
rlm@162 919 optimizations. But this is actually really hard, because we'll be
rlm@162 920 working with machines that will appear to us about as fast as
rlm@162 921 MECHANICAL computers. So, in the future, all the cool parties
rlm@162 922 will be in cyperspace at vastly accelerated speeds compared to
rlm@162 923 how we exist now. But at these parties, the computers will SUCK!
rlm@162 924 Of course, this is one of the few things that can save us from AI
rlm@162 925 risk, because those AI's won't seem so scary when the're build
rlm@162 926 out of rickety mechanical parts form our perspective.
rlm@139 927
rlm@162 928 - unitary reverse evolution of chaos+minds :: Chaotic systems diverge
rlm@162 929 exponentially in state space. Do you get anything interesting
rlm@162 930 when part of the physical system associated with the chaotic
rlm@162 931 system is a object that performs some sort of computation? Is it
rlm@162 932 possible for the computational system to play a
rlm@162 933 percision-enabling role in determining the final/initial
rlm@162 934 conditions of the chaotic system, just by tracing out thoughts in
rlm@162 935 its decision paths? This is probably too vague of an idea right
rlm@162 936 now, I just wanted to write it down.
rlm@138 937
rlm@162 938 - microwave time :: the cooking time you enter on most microwaves is
rlm@162 939 insane. It's expressed in what I call a "hybrid base", a
rlm@162 940 combination of base 10 and base 60. You can get absurd things
rlm@162 941 like 100 < 61, and 120 == 80! I wonder if these hybrid base
rlm@162 942 systems could be very useful for some purposes!
rlm@138 943
rlm@162 944 - three-eyes :: if you had three eyes, would you still draw cubes like
rlm@162 945 we currently draw them? Or would all 2D-representations of 3D
rlm@162 946 space always look hopelessly fake?
rlm@138 947
rlm@162 948 - visual taste/smell assay :: get a grid of bacteria, each expressing
rlm@162 949 a human taste/smell receptor linked to some sort of fluorscent
rlm@162 950 activity or ion pump. Use a camera / electrical grid to transduce
rlm@162 951 the smell / taste signal into bits!
rlm@138 952
rlm@162 953 - carabiner mushroom lock :: you can take a trapazodial carabiner and
rlm@162 954 make it so that a chain link is caught between the wide end of
rlm@162 955 the carabiner and another chain attached to the carabiner.
rlm@138 956
rlm@162 957 - children's tool shop :: I think that kids should be provided with
rlm@162 958 tool shops -- these would be nice sheds with a good collection of
rlm@162 959 tools to do various things -- circuit components and soldering
rlm@162 960 irons, wires, a small lathe, drill press, belt sander, a
rlm@162 961 centrifuge, microscope, and telescope, etc. The idea is that the
rlm@162 962 kid can now think, "I could use X to do this thing that I'm
rlm@162 963 thinking about" -- the building becomes an extension of the kid's
rlm@162 964 body & mind.
rlm@138 965
rlm@162 966 - fluid display :: like the previous idea about matching refractances
rlm@162 967 between glass and liquid, except you make a lot of
rlm@162 968 switchable glass tubes in various patterns in the
rlm@162 969 glass, and actively pump colored liquid through the
rlm@162 970 tubes (the tubes have glass-like fluid in them by
rlm@162 971 default.) The result is that you can cause the
rlm@162 972 tubes to appear and dissappear, and vary their
rlm@162 973 colors as well!
rlm@137 974
rlm@162 975 - immunoincompatibility :: take the human genome, and refactor it so
rlm@162 976 that it doesn't use a particular codon at all. Then remove the
rlm@162 977 support from our ribosomes for that codon. What does this do for
rlm@162 978 us? It makes us immune to almost all viruses!
rlm@137 979
rlm@162 980 - life cycle :: it's called a cycle, right? So, the thing that repeats
rlm@162 981 itself over and over, right? Not much of a cycle if
rlm@162 982 you don't come back after you die, if you ask me!
rlm@137 983
rlm@162 984 - car with no blind spots :: use some cameras in the back of the car
rlm@162 985 to augment the rear-view mirror so that you never have to turn
rlm@162 986 around in order to lane change.
rlm@137 987
rlm@162 988 - partial cell death :: you freeze a set of cells using some cryo
rlm@162 989 protocol and 60% survive. How can this be explained? It seems to
rlm@162 990 me that if the cells are the same, and the conditions
rlm@162 991 homogoneous, then all the cells should either die or
rlm@162 992 live. However, suppose that there is a metabolic cycle that needs
rlm@162 993 to be in a certain phase for the cell to survive. If the cells
rlm@162 994 are asynchronous, then you might end up with some cells dying
rlm@162 995 because there were in the wrong part of their cycle. This implies
rlm@162 996 that you might be able to cryoprotect cells by causing them to
rlm@162 997 enter a certain metabolic mode before freezing.
rlm@137 998
rlm@162 999 - cryonics color appeal :: perfusate used by cryonics companies should
rlm@162 1000 have red food coloring in it. It's just a nice touch so that the
rlm@162 1001 cryonics patient looks more life-like than with clear CPAs, and
rlm@162 1002 hopefully might get treated with more respect.
rlm@137 1003
rlm@162 1004 - paramagnetic CPA :: you take a CPA that can be influenced by
rlm@162 1005 magnetic fields so that its degrees of freedom are limited. Then,
rlm@162 1006 you release the field, instantaly increasing the size of the
rlm@162 1007 state space of the system and dramatically decreasing the
rlm@162 1008 temperature enough to plunge the system past homogenous
rlm@162 1009 nucleation temperature and directly to the glass transition
rlm@162 1010 temperature, creating a doubly unstable glass at much lower CPA
rlm@162 1011 concentrations than possible at conventional CPA concentrations.
rlm@137 1012
rlm@162 1013 - room temp noodles :: how does the physics of cooking noodles work?
rlm@162 1014 Could you use a vacuum instead of heat to force water into the
rlm@162 1015 noodle?
rlm@137 1016
rlm@162 1017 - personal carbon offset :: feel bad about contribuiting to global
rlm@162 1018 warming by using electricity / driving a car? Forget trying to
rlm@162 1019 "conserve" or "minimize your carbon footprint". Follow the
rlm@162 1020 Platinum rule -- make the world BETTER off than you found it!
rlm@162 1021 This would be a small, self contained system that sucks C02 out
rlm@162 1022 of the air. It uses electricity, but it's so efficient at
rlm@162 1023 removing CO2 that it more than offsets the CO2 produced by even a
rlm@162 1024 coal plant to produce that electricity. This way, you can still
rlm@162 1025 drive even a gas guzzler, but have a net negative carbon
rlm@162 1026 footprint! Maybe something cool could be done with the carbon as
rlm@162 1027 well. Use as much electricity as you want, but negate the damage
rlm@162 1028 to the enviroment with more technology.
rlm@137 1029
rlm@162 1030 - undoing spermogenesis :: with enough sperm, you can derive the
rlm@162 1031 donor's entire genome. You gain more confidence in the alleles
rlm@162 1032 for a particular gene the more sperm you have. Each additional
rlm@162 1033 sperm gives you the same sort of information you'd get flipping a
rlm@162 1034 coin and trying to decide whether the coin is H/T of H/H. Is
rlm@162 1035 there enough sperm in the the average load for you to be as
rlm@162 1036 confident as mitosis?
rlm@136 1037
rlm@162 1038 - mars life :: we could engineer life that could survive on mars
rlm@162 1039 (probably some non-vascular photosynthetic
rlm@162 1040 poikilohydric creature like a lichen) by taking an
rlm@162 1041 extremophile from Antarctica and evolving it in
rlm@162 1042 increasingly Martian conditions. This could be an easy
rlm@162 1043 start to a terraforming process.
rlm@134 1044
rlm@162 1045 - problem with Aubrey de Grey's ideas :: Aubrey de Grey says that we
rlm@162 1046 might be able to live forever by continually repairing our bodies
rlm@162 1047 at the cellular level -- he details 7 different mechanisms of
rlm@162 1048 damage and says that if all of them are dealt with /together/
rlm@162 1049 that it would stop aging. (You can't miss even one because
rlm@162 1050 they're all fatal.) However, it doesn't take into account that
rlm@162 1051 we are also beings of information and that there is a very real
rlm@162 1052 software component to our existence. Even if our biological
rlm@162 1053 chassies can be maintained forever, I think it is unlikely that
rlm@162 1054 our minds will operate well far outside of the design constraints
rlm@162 1055 that we've evolved to handle. Say I programmed a webserver with
rlm@162 1056 the express goal of it being able to serve webpages for month on
rlm@162 1057 some stock server. I'll do fairly rigorous testing to make sure
rlm@162 1058 that it can handle the expected load then then some. Now say that
rlm@162 1059 you want to keep a particular instance of this webserver running
rlm@162 1060 indefinitely. (The program instance is like your mind and the
rlm@162 1061 computer it's running on is like your body). You might very well
rlm@162 1062 be able to keep the physical computer infrastructure running for
rlm@162 1063 forever by replacing hard drives / ram / CPUs, etc. However,
rlm@162 1064 since I designed the webserver to work for a month, it probably
rlm@162 1065 has memory leaks, rare stochastic bugs, or other built in limits
rlm@162 1066 / constraints (think log files or some date rollover shenanigans)
rlm@162 1067 that will ultimately kill the webserver even with eternally
rlm@162 1068 perfect hardware. Do you really expect that a webserver
rlm@162 1069 engineered to work for 1 month will run for 10 years without
rlm@162 1070 catastrophically crashing? Not even Apache can do this! In fact,
rlm@162 1071 if I put in the extreme effort to make it that robust, I've
rlm@162 1072 wasted time that I could have spent on other projects by pursuing
rlm@162 1073 an unnecessary engineering goal. Likewise, human minds have only
rlm@162 1074 ever run for at most 122 years before they are destroyed due to
rlm@162 1075 hardware degradation. Fixing the hardware doesn't change any
rlm@162 1076 software bugs that are almost certainly present in the human
rlm@162 1077 mind. Think of all the pathological things that can go wrong with
rlm@162 1078 a webserver, multiply it by a million, and that likely how
rlm@162 1079 evolution has designed our minds. For example, consider memory :
rlm@162 1080 why should you expect that we have evolved the ability to
rlm@162 1081 coherently organize memories past say 150 years? There's been
rlm@162 1082 absolutely no selective pressure for this ability, so you can bet
rlm@162 1083 that if there's any fitness to be gained from not having
rlm@162 1084 unlimited memory potential (such as better metabolic efficiency),
rlm@162 1085 we have it! You might think that maybe we would just forget
rlm@162 1086 things the same way that we sort of forget things that happen
rlm@162 1087 earlier in our lives, but complicated information processing
rlm@162 1088 systems don't have to fail gracefully when they're pushed far
rlm@162 1089 past their design constraints. A 150 year old person is just as
rlm@162 1090 likely to suffer a catastrophic psychosis due to software
rlm@162 1091 limitations associated with memory as he is to do something with
rlm@162 1092 all those memories we might consider reasonable. More likely, in
rlm@162 1093 fact, since there are so very many ways for a complicated
rlm@162 1094 software system to break and so few ways for it to run
rlm@162 1095 successfully. Therefore, I think Aubrey de Grey's "hardware-only"
rlm@162 1096 approach is missing a very important component of longevity
rlm@162 1097 science, and any successful effort to make people live orders of
rlm@162 1098 magnitude longer than they do naturally will need to deal with
rlm@162 1099 people's software as well as their hardware.
rlm@133 1100
rlm@162 1101 - validating neurocryopreservation :: Problem : you want to test
rlm@162 1102 whether a brain is functionally preserved through vitrification,
rlm@162 1103 but you don't want to figure out how to preserve all the other
rlm@162 1104 organs in the animal. It might be possible to keep the rest of
rlm@162 1105 the body at almost 0C and vitrify just the head for only a few
rlm@162 1106 minutes. Induce hypothermia, then separate out the head's blood
rlm@162 1107 supply from the rest of the body, then just cryoptotect and
rlm@162 1108 vitrify the head. Might need some sort of thermal guard to keep
rlm@162 1109 the outer head / neck from becoming too cold. You leave the
rlm@162 1110 spinal cord intact! Then you devitrify to 0C, remove
rlm@162 1111 cryoprotectant, and then reattach the blood supply. You can
rlm@162 1112 determine brain preservation using behavioral assays!
rlm@133 1113
rlm@162 1114 - freezing water purifier :: you slowly freeze water, but also run
rlm@162 1115 liquid water over the frozen mass. This takes away basically all
rlm@162 1116 impurities and creates "washed ice" then you melt the ice. Maybe
rlm@162 1117 you could re-use the heat from creating the ice to melt the ice?
rlm@133 1118
rlm@162 1119 - ultra strength :: allow a person to visualize their muscle
rlm@162 1120 recruitment patterns. Give them adrenaline and let
rlm@162 1121 them feel what it's like to have the normal limits
rlm@162 1122 removed. See if they can replicate the effects.
rlm@133 1123
rlm@162 1124 - phone names :: make a PX record for domain names that's like the MX
rlm@162 1125 record, except that it is a phone number instead of
rlm@162 1126 an IP address. That way, you can use the domain name
rlm@162 1127 registration system to provide names for phone
rlm@162 1128 numbers. Then, as long as you control the domain, you
rlm@162 1129 can point people to your current phone number by
rlm@162 1130 updating that record.
rlm@133 1131
rlm@162 1132 - edible flowers :: Edible white flowers that you put in a colored
rlm@162 1133 solution with flavor. When the flower turns the
rlm@162 1134 right color, it is also flavored and ready to eat!
rlm@131 1135
rlm@162 1136 - suicide cryonics :: according to [[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/magazine/06suicide-t.html][this]], people who commit impulsive
rlm@162 1137 suicides have a newfound sense of the importance of life. Perhaps
rlm@162 1138 they are good cryonics targets.
rlm@131 1139
rlm@162 1140 - lead bone :: Could you fill in all the empty spaces in a bone with
rlm@162 1141 lead? Might be cool.
rlm@131 1142
rlm@162 1143 - the quest for life :: Every stupid story has the "immortal who
rlm@162 1144 wants to become mortal" or some other such idea. I want to story
rlm@162 1145 where the protagonist loses their immortality and feels /angry/
rlm@162 1146 and ashamed about losing something that's so absolutely crucial
rlm@162 1147 to their identity. A reverse of "death makes life worth living",
rlm@162 1148 they feel that living forever is what makes life worth
rlm@162 1149 living. Now they've "lost their sunrise" or their "connection to
rlm@162 1150 the timeless universe" or something. So they go on a quest to get
rlm@162 1151 it back, learning about themselves along the way, and regaining
rlm@162 1152 the precious thing they lost in the beginning.
rlm@130 1153
rlm@162 1154 - world-map :: take a small table and paint the continents in
rlm@162 1155 toothpaste on the table. Make a slightly raised barrier
rlm@162 1156 around the table. Slowly pour water onto the table, and
rlm@162 1157 it will form the oceans!
rlm@95 1158
rlm@162 1159 - stage magic rituals :: rituals should incorporate elements of stage
rlm@162 1160 magic. Foe example in Teller's tempest, they have a scene where
rlm@162 1161 they levitate a crown in front of someone, then put it on his
rlm@162 1162 head. They also have a wedding ceremony where they levitated the
rlm@162 1163 bride as well. Actual weddings and other ceremonies should
rlm@162 1164 incorporate stage magic as an enhancement.
rlm@95 1165
rlm@162 1166 - isotope time dilation :: use a cyclotron to speed up rare isotopes
rlm@162 1167 developed in nuclear fusion experiments. The relativistic time
rlm@162 1168 dilation will stop the isotopes from decaying, and allow time to
rlm@162 1169 study them. This is based on radioactive isotopes that fall
rlm@162 1170 through the earth's atmosphere that take hundreds of times
rlm@162 1171 longer to decay than normal.
rlm@95 1172
rlm@162 1173 - marsupial stimulation :: You take a freshly pouched marsupial baby,
rlm@162 1174 and show it videos and other interactive things while it matures
rlm@162 1175 in the pouch. What mental effects would this have?
rlm@95 1176
rlm@162 1177 - dynamic re-keying :: Some older ways of tuning instruments sound
rlm@162 1178 better, but we use the even-tempered scale today because it makes
rlm@162 1179 it easier to switch keys. With electronic music, why not make
rlm@162 1180 key-annotations and dynamically re-tune the piece to sound good
rlm@162 1181 in the current key? Could be done as a midi+annotation -> midi
rlm@162 1182 compiler for experimentation.
rlm@95 1183
rlm@162 1184 - death always implies damage :: is is possible for a corpse to differ
rlm@162 1185 from a living person only in the fact that one is dead and the
rlm@162 1186 other is alive? NO! A corpse must always have some sort of
rlm@162 1187 molecular damage which causes the loss of function!
rlm@95 1188
rlm@162 1189 - inner eye :: Surgically install a bunch of tiny cameras inside a
rlm@162 1190 person. Then, you can activate them all and get a
rlm@162 1191 picture of your internal organs for diagnostic
rlm@162 1192 purposes.
rlm@95 1193
rlm@162 1194 - chaos rails :: should make a visualization of the homoclinic tangle,
rlm@162 1195 it's truly beautiful.
rlm@95 1196
rlm@162 1197 - context gobbler :: this would be in "inside-out macro" that takes
rlm@162 1198 the context (like you use for things like error, continuations,
rlm@162 1199 and friends) and transforms it to something else. Maybe useful?
rlm@91 1200
rlm@162 1201 - cryonics middle ages :: some people say that cryonics is an
rlm@162 1202 experiment and that it is foolish to wait until we have revived a
rlm@162 1203 human. There is a middle ground where the procedure has a dismal
rlm@162 1204 success rate on humans, say 1 in 20, so that you'd be a fool to
rlm@162 1205 try revival. Nonetheless, this very risky procedure could be the
rlm@162 1206 legal proof of concept needed to create a new class of life
rlm@162 1207 between "living" and "dead": "stasis".
rlm@91 1208
rlm@162 1209 - philosophy of the mirror :: neat thought experiment -- if you take a
rlm@162 1210 mirror of someone by actually reversing a person's chirality
rlm@162 1211 molecule by molecule, then will the only be able to read mirror
rlm@162 1212 writing? The answer is yes, by analogy to a purely mechanical
rlm@162 1213 scan-tron device. This is one of the only interesting transforms I
rlm@162 1214 know that can take a human brain and change it in subtle,
rlm@162 1215 non-destructive ways. It's also an argument against dualism.
rlm@91 1216
rlm@162 1217 - biosphere in a bottle :: There are around 15 million species. 15
rlm@162 1218 million stem cells will fill only a tiny size, far less than a cubic
rlm@162 1219 inch. Preserve a single cell from every species on earth in this
rlm@162 1220 small space, and you will have a record of our current biosphere
rlm@162 1221 that can be protected. "Hold the genetic data of all species in
rlm@162 1222 your hand!"
rlm@90 1223
rlm@162 1224 - chaos lock :: The "arrow of time" points in the direction of
rlm@162 1225 increasing entropy. The time evolution of chaotic
rlm@162 1226 systems depend exquisitely on their initial state. If
rlm@162 1227 you take a measurement of a chaotic system at any
rlm@162 1228 given point of time, you can evolve that system
rlm@162 1229 backwards or forwards based on your measurement. So
rlm@162 1230 let's say you start the chaotic system in a VERY low
rlm@162 1231 entropy state, then let it run for a while, then take
rlm@162 1232 a measurement with some uncertainty. Your
rlm@162 1233 measurement is pretty good, but obviously not
rlm@162 1234 PERFECT. If you evolve the chaotic system back in
rlm@162 1235 time, then you will see that you don't really reach
rlm@162 1236 a state with low entropy an hour before (the entropy
rlm@162 1237 is easy to measure with surrogates like alignment,
rlm@162 1238 etc). So use this technique to SEARCH for a more
rlm@162 1239 accurate measurement! This potentially can give you
rlm@162 1240 many more orders of magnitude than you could get alone
rlm@162 1241 just using an instrument. Sometimes it will give you
rlm@162 1242 bad results, the the odds of it doing that are
rlm@162 1243 infinitesimal, and you can just measure a couple of
rlm@162 1244 times.
rlm@90 1245
rlm@162 1246 - cryo-evolution :: perhaps there would be a way to rapidly evolve a
rlm@162 1247 symbiotic bacterial organism that could protect
rlm@162 1248 human tissues from freezing damage.
rlm@86 1249
rlm@162 1250 - suicide parasite :: sometimes, people kill themselves for no good
rlm@162 1251 reason. We often explain this with things like "hidden
rlm@162 1252 depression" or we say that they had something like chronic jaw or
rlm@162 1253 back pain. I think that smells of rationalization. I don't buy
rlm@162 1254 it. I propose that in many suicide cases there is a disease that
rlm@162 1255 causes the suicidal behavior. We already know that certain
rlm@162 1256 parasites have mind-bending properties in other animals, even
rlm@162 1257 mammals like mice. It's not much of a stretch to imagine a
rlm@162 1258 parasite that causes suicides in humans. Some problems:
rlm@162 1259 - What does the suicide parasite get out of it? :: This might be
rlm@162 1260 answered by the whole thing being a glitch caused by
rlm@162 1261 cross-species contamination. Toxoplasma works this way.
rlm@162 1262 - What predictions does a disease model make :: suicide should
rlm@162 1263 be more common among people who share a contagion
rlm@162 1264 vector. There should be suicides that don't make any
rlm@162 1265 sense : people who weren't really depressed, who had no
rlm@162 1266 reason to kill themselves. People who have killed themselves
rlm@162 1267 should have a higher incidence of some unknown parasite in
rlm@162 1268 their brains.
rlm@87 1269
rlm@162 1270 - domestic insects :: People should eat more bugs because they're much
rlm@162 1271 more efficient, so why not do some major domestication research
rlm@162 1272 to make very appealing bugs? Beetles, in particular, seem to be
rlm@162 1273 excellent targets for domestication because they have extreme
rlm@162 1274 levels of genetic malleability.
rlm@86 1275
rlm@162 1276 - birth-clones :: What if each person was intentionally split at birth
rlm@162 1277 into a normal embryo and a few "backup" cells which
rlm@162 1278 is then frozen. The backup cells are created just
rlm@162 1279 the same way as natural identical twins. The backups
rlm@162 1280 can be used to regenerate organs. etc. Also, it
rlm@162 1281 would be a good sci fi concept, because you could
rlm@162 1282 have a culture where people reward people who were
rlm@162 1283 especially awesome are "reborn" from their
rlm@162 1284 backups. Imagine having a young Bach every
rlm@162 1285 generation, etc.
rlm@86 1286
rlm@162 1287 - pronunciation guide :: a simple webpage where you type in a word and
rlm@162 1288 it returns a simple, English sentence describing exactly how to
rlm@162 1289 pronounce the word. For people who don't want to learn IPA.
rlm@87 1290
rlm@162 1291 - cortex-search :: use the repertoire of actions learned to limit the
rlm@162 1292 search space of possible actions.
rlm@83 1293
rlm@162 1294 - learning to teleport :: scifi idea, this is a story about a person
rlm@162 1295 who is struggling with his/her society's ideas about
rlm@162 1296 teleportation. It's considered a fundamental part of being a
rlm@162 1297 member of that society (after all, the difference between animals
rlm@162 1298 and humans is that humans are creatures of pure information while
rlm@162 1299 animals are burdened with base matter, "that's how you travel the
rlm@162 1300 stars, etc") Humans are born normally, grow up, and then
rlm@162 1301 eventually transcend via destructive upload. Analogies to jumping
rlm@162 1302 off a diving board into a pool (which I simply /could not do/ for
rlm@162 1303 a long time), etc.
rlm@87 1304
rlm@162 1305 - no-float-ice :: cup that has cross beams at the bottom where ice
rlm@162 1306 forms. Then when you drink liquid from the glass,
rlm@162 1307 the ice stays at the bottom and doesn't hit your
rlm@162 1308 lips. For bars and fancy things.
rlm@82 1309
rlm@162 1310 - bitcoins for immigrants :: A common case with Mexican immigrants
rlm@162 1311 (illegal or not) is that they want to send money they've earned
rlm@162 1312 in the US back to their families in Mexico. They currently do this
rlm@162 1313 through things like Money Gram or Western Union, and they get
rlm@162 1314 fleeced in the process with fees. Bitcoin could greatly reduce
rlm@162 1315 the cost of sending money from America to Mexico, but I don't
rlm@162 1316 believe that it's currently used for that among Mexican
rlm@162 1317 immigrants currently due to lack of knowledge. I bet you could
rlm@162 1318 set up physical locations like those obnoxious Western Union huts
rlm@162 1319 in places like Texas, Arizona, etc, and greatly undercut
rlm@162 1320 them. Or, perhaps some educational seminars about bitcoin might
rlm@162 1321 be in order. There's some money to be made there because there is
rlm@162 1322 great demand, and it's a good thing to boot!
rlm@81 1323
rlm@162 1324 - reverse eye-tracking :: A painting that is actually a digital screen
rlm@162 1325 with a camera. It records people's eye tracks permanently. It's
rlm@162 1326 "artistic" because paintings are normally these things that you
rlm@162 1327 look at without changing, but this one is changed the second you
rlm@162 1328 look at it, recording where /you/ looked forever for others to
rlm@162 1329 see. Make it be a painting of a woman and see the trolling as the
rlm@162 1330 breasts and groin area light up with interest from all the males
rlm@162 1331 passing by.
rlm@80 1332
rlm@162 1333 - smart toilets :: Instead of using indirect measures like infrared
rlm@162 1334 detectors of the presence of a person, use computer
rlm@162 1335 vision to directly measure whether the toilet needs
rlm@162 1336 to be flushed. I think a lot of things will end up
rlm@162 1337 going this way as we get better computer vision.
rlm@77 1338
rlm@162 1339 - validate chemopreservation :: chemopreservation is difficult to
rlm@162 1340 validate because it destroys the functionality of a brain, and
rlm@162 1341 brain simulation will take a long time to mature as a
rlm@162 1342 technology. However, one very powerful way to validate
rlm@162 1343 chemopreservation would be to have a person/animal learn
rlm@162 1344 something with high complexity such as a number or the solution
rlm@162 1345 to a maze, or a flashbulb memory. Then you preserve their brain
rlm@162 1346 chemically, slice it up, and read /that specific memory/ from the
rlm@162 1347 detailed brain scan. Much more difficult, but much more doable.
rlm@76 1348
rlm@162 1349 - candy screw :: edible candy screw with candy nuts that you can screw
rlm@162 1350 as well.
rlm@74 1351
rlm@162 1352 - better bibliography :: when writing a thesis or paper, have the
rlm@162 1353 bibliography not just be an opaque list of resources, but have it
rlm@162 1354 be a list of /summaries/ and /qualities/ that each paper has in
rlm@162 1355 the context of the paper being written. When examining a
rlm@162 1356 bibliography, I want to know if reading the papers in the
rlm@162 1357 bibliography are worth my time, and I also am probably also
rlm@162 1358 interested in exactly the things that are being discussed in the
rlm@162 1359 paper I'm reading. The bibliography is the perfect place to
rlm@162 1360 provide information about the referenced papers from the
rlm@162 1361 author's perspective. I will use this biographic form in my own
rlm@162 1362 thesis.
rlm@73 1363
rlm@162 1364 - digital inter-library loan :: libraries at universities already do
rlm@162 1365 inter-library loans for books, so why not do the same for access
rlm@162 1366 to stupid paywalled digital papers? All the universities could
rlm@162 1367 allow access to articles for registered students to all the files
rlm@162 1368 available through any participating university. This could be
rlm@162 1369 achieved by sending requests through proxies at participating
rlm@162 1370 universities. Each university would decide who at the university
rlm@162 1371 can access the proxy network. Access to the proxy network could
rlm@162 1372 be made easy using something like http://libx.org/.
rlm@72 1373
rlm@162 1374 - chess visual :: to show the vast size of the game trees considered
rlm@162 1375 by computers, show two people playing chess in a
rlm@162 1376 void. They are floating in space, and there is a
rlm@162 1377 simple chess board between them. Then, as they play,
rlm@162 1378 the game tree's they are considering are drawn
rlm@162 1379 behind him. The root of the tree starts centered in
rlm@162 1380 their heads or whatever they use to think, and the
rlm@162 1381 tree grows out from behind, never crossing the
rlm@162 1382 dividing plane between the two players. Each
rlm@162 1383 player's tree is a different color. As they grow,
rlm@162 1384 there are animations for pruning, etc. Eventually,
rlm@162 1385 they look like the hemispheres of a brain, wings,
rlm@162 1386 etc. A human's tree might occasionally have a long
rlm@162 1387 chain, while the computer tree would be more
rlm@162 1388 uniform. You could compare deep blue and a modern
rlm@162 1389 laptop. Use actual data when fighting two computers!
rlm@71 1390
rlm@162 1391 - time verification :: some standard way to verify that some piece of
rlm@162 1392 data was recorded at a specific time. Might involve a time
rlm@162 1393 server, a key for each time period, something like that.
rlm@70 1394
rlm@162 1395 - tamper proof gold bars :: [[http://www.tungsten-alloy.com/gold-plated-tungsten-alloy-bar.html][this site]] offers gold plated tungsten bars
rlm@162 1396 as "novelty" items. One reason to prefer coins is because they
rlm@162 1397 are much harder to counterfeit because there is less surface area
rlm@162 1398 to mass ratio. However, gold bars are still a great design
rlm@162 1399 because they can hold a lot of value in a small space. A gold bar
rlm@162 1400 could be given the same protections (and more) that gold coins
rlm@162 1401 have to offer by changing it into a "gold book", which would have
rlm@162 1402 hundreds of "pages" of gold bound together. This could be
rlm@162 1403 implemented with multiple steel rods going through the book which
rlm@162 1404 can be removed, or some more classier mechanism for holding the
rlm@162 1405 pages. The point is that the bar can be EASILY subdivided (and
rlm@162 1406 people would perform this test before buying), thus guaranteeing
rlm@162 1407 it's authenticity.
rlm@68 1408
rlm@162 1409 - aurellem shirt :: I should make an aurellem star symbol tee-shirt.
rlm@86 1410
rlm@162 1411 - touch vision :: inspired by GelSight, I want to reexamine cortex and
rlm@162 1412 see if I could implement touch as a very low range
rlm@162 1413 form of vision.
rlm@67 1414
rlm@162 1415 - high school science :: this is a lesson in scientific ethics. The
rlm@162 1416 goal is to calculate /g/, the local gravitational
rlm@162 1417 acceleration. The students are told that the textbook says it's
rlm@162 1418 /exactly/ 9.81 before they start the experiment. See how they
rlm@162 1419 doctor their results to get closer to the textbook value. It's
rlm@162 1420 neat because for any given school, /g/ is probably *not* exactly
rlm@162 1421 equal to 9.81, because that is just an average!
rlm@67 1422
rlm@162 1423 - opencourseware subtitles :: there are ladies who type up lectures
rlm@162 1424 while they are being given. These recordings should be kept and
rlm@162 1425 given to OCW for subtitles. If the timestamps of keys are
rlm@162 1426 recorded, then it is easy to make subtitles.
rlm@66 1427
rlm@162 1428 - screen locking timing :: you use your computer camera to see if you
rlm@162 1429 are sitting in front of the computer. If you are, then the screen
rlm@162 1430 will never lock. If you are, then the screen will lock with a
rlm@162 1431 30-40 second timeout. It's an extension of using inactivity to
rlm@162 1432 initiate the countdown, just with more information.
rlm@66 1433
rlm@162 1434 - mirror toilet :: a toilet with a square basin made or mirror instead
rlm@162 1435 or porcelain. That way, you can see how good of a
rlm@162 1436 wipe job you have done / watch how your excretion
rlm@162 1437 system works.
rlm@62 1438
rlm@162 1439 - test dummies :: why don't we clone anencephalic humans and use then to
rlm@162 1440 test /in vivo/ human organ systems and drugs? It
rlm@162 1441 would be ethical as long as there are women who are
rlm@162 1442 willing to host the clones, and it would be a
rlm@162 1443 tremendous resource for studying the human body. I
rlm@162 1444 see nothing wrong with it morally, since no one is
rlm@162 1445 suffering, and it stands to save many lives throughout
rlm@162 1446 more advanced technology.
rlm@62 1447
rlm@162 1448 - X-ray telepresence :: given that a doctor is operating on a patient
rlm@162 1449 via telepresence, one cool things you can do is shine X-rays into
rlm@162 1450 the patient to view the insides during real time. If the system
rlm@162 1451 was coupled with a Bayesian model of the layout of the structure,
rlm@162 1452 and the x-rays were only fired whenever the uncertainty of the
rlm@162 1453 model reached a certain threshold, then the radiation damage
rlm@162 1454 and surgery risk could be minimized.
rlm@51 1455
rlm@162 1456 - superfluid vascular system :: I wonder what would happen if you
rlm@162 1457 replaced the blood in a human with a superfluid. What would the
rlm@162 1458 physical dynamics be? Would the superfluid flow through the
rlm@162 1459 vasculature, or would it ignore it and travel through the cells,
rlm@162 1460 or something else entirely. Since superfluids need to be cold to
rlm@162 1461 retain their superfluidity, how would the dynamics change during
rlm@162 1462 perfusion of a superfluid, where the fluid gains and looses
rlm@162 1463 superfluidity as it goes deeper into the body and is cooled by
rlm@162 1464 superfluid from upstream. In summary there are two things to
rlm@162 1465 simulate 1.) replace all blood in human with superfluid
rlm@162 1466 instantly. 2.) perfuse superfluid into human.
rlm@59 1467
rlm@162 1468 - projective guessing :: I think that we read and see things by
rlm@162 1469 making a really good guess about what we're expecting to see,
rlm@162 1470 and then searching for our guess in what we see. If it really
rlm@162 1471 doesn't match, then we start to make more guesses / analyze the
rlm@162 1472 image from first principles, but most stuff is projective
rlm@162 1473 guessing.
rlm@59 1474
rlm@162 1475 - Intestinal flora maintenance :: why not inoculate babies at birth
rlm@162 1476 with "ideal" gut flora instead of whatever bullshit they
rlm@162 1477 naturally get, thus giving them optimal digestive/nutrient
rlm@162 1478 extraction capabilities. Might also be able to make their farts
rlm@162 1479 not stink for life, too. MORE IMPORTANTLY, might help to
rlm@162 1480 preventatively stop some forms of /colic/, which affects 1 in 5
rlm@162 1481 babies and causes constant screaming and pain for about 5 weeks.
rlm@56 1482
rlm@162 1483 - server culture : mirrors :: make a distributed system where people
rlm@162 1484 can mirror the websites of people they like -- essentially cover
rlm@162 1485 the server costs of favored websites. This could make popular
rlm@162 1486 websites run at no cost. The system would require that the
rlm@162 1487 mirrored content be the same as the official source. Sort of like
rlm@162 1488 bit-torrent for websites.
rlm@56 1489
rlm@162 1490 - map programming :: one problem with functional programming is that
rlm@162 1491 in order to remain functional, you have to pass up arguments up
rlm@162 1492 into each calling function to get the full range of behavior
rlm@162 1493 from the lower level functions. Normally people come to a
rlm@162 1494 compromise involving abstraction and sparing use of dynamic
rlm@162 1495 variables to configure runtime behavior. What would be the
rlm@162 1496 advantages of making a programming language where every function
rlm@162 1497 receives one argument, a map, which contains all the symbol
rlm@162 1498 bindings it would ever need? This map is passed on to all
rlm@162 1499 subordinate functions. This way, you could replace functions on
rlm@162 1500 the fly, and arrange for there to be sensible defaults,
rlm@162 1501 etc. Might cause more harm than good but is an interesting idea.
rlm@55 1502
rlm@162 1503 - rest nest :: a small EEG device you would attach to your head when
rlm@162 1504 you go to sleep at night. ML algorithms would determine
rlm@162 1505 your particular sleep cycles. This would mostly be an
rlm@162 1506 alarm clock that you could give a time range, say
rlm@162 1507 7:00AM - 7:15AM, and it would wake you up during an
rlm@162 1508 ideal time corresponding to then end of one of your 90
rlm@162 1509 min sleep cycles. You would feel much more rested upon
rlm@162 1510 waking up, and would wake up faster. There might be
rlm@162 1511 some other uses for the EEG data as well.
rlm@50 1512
rlm@162 1513 - image compression :: use a library like gimp or opencv to process an
rlm@162 1514 image to make it have less entropy, then store the reverse of
rlm@162 1515 those operations along with the compressed simpler image as a
rlm@162 1516 super-compressed image file (possibly accepting some
rlm@162 1517 losses). Trades file size for decompression time, and allows one
rlm@162 1518 to cheat by using information in gimp/opencv to compress the
rlm@162 1519 image.
rlm@38 1520
rlm@162 1521 - fixed cryopreservation :: why not use a fixative to buy enough time
rlm@162 1522 to ramp up cryoprotectants to an acceptable level at room
rlm@162 1523 temperature? Then, the whole system can be rapidly cooled and
rlm@162 1524 vitrified. This method "severs the biological link" in that the
rlm@162 1525 fixatives are highly toxic, but current vitrification procedures
rlm@162 1526 do this anyway since there can be a lot of freezing damage.
rlm@58 1527
rlm@162 1528 - dilated security camera :: a security camera that would capture
rlm@162 1529 full video footage of everything at 60fps but then decide to keep
rlm@162 1530 only every 1 frame every 5 seconds unless there's something
rlm@162 1531 "interesting" happening.
rlm@40 1532
rlm@162 1533 - bitcoin wallet :: Part of "server culture", this would be something
rlm@162 1534 like "coin.your-domain.com" which would serve as
rlm@162 1535 your personal trusted access to your own bitcoins
rlm@162 1536 from anywhere.
rlm@40 1537
rlm@162 1538 - libpay :: this would be a free library which would enable
rlm@162 1539 micro-donations to software projects and other projects,
rlm@162 1540 so that you could donate a penny to "emacs" and it would
rlm@162 1541 be automatically split up to every person who has ever
rlm@162 1542 contributed to emacs in proportion to the amount of
rlm@162 1543 community esteem, code quantity, bugs fixed, whatever the
rlm@162 1544 community decides. This might make it possible for
rlm@162 1545 programmers to live entirely off of free programming.
rlm@41 1546
rlm@162 1547 - distributed graphics :: Browser based graphics-card accelerated
rlm@162 1548 distributed computing API.
rlm@40 1549
rlm@162 1550 - pronouns :: use capital letters A-Z instead of pronouns. They solve
rlm@162 1551 pronoun referents and gender neutrality, are short to
rlm@162 1552 say, and you can encode useful information into the
rlm@162 1553 choice of letter. For example, instead of "Meetings
rlm@162 1554 shall be presided over by the president, unless she is
rlm@162 1555 absent." USE "Meetings shall be presided over by the
rlm@162 1556 president, unless P is absent." We already use this a
rlm@162 1557 little, since I and U are reserved for the subject and
rlm@162 1558 object respectively.
rlm@40 1559
rlm@162 1560 - phone DSP :: software app that inserts an audio DSP between the
rlm@162 1561 input to a phone and the output. The DSP is delicious
rlm@162 1562 and configurable, and can allow men to make their
rlm@162 1563 voices deeper, etc. The app would allow you to hear
rlm@162 1564 your own voice as others hear it. Most people hate how
rlm@162 1565 their own voice sounds. The app would also allow one to
rlm@162 1566 immediately change the parameters of the DSP using good
rlm@162 1567 presets.
rlm@40 1568
rlm@162 1569 - predestined body learning :: a good example of predestined learning
rlm@162 1570 might be the mirror neurons.
rlm@40 1571
rlm@162 1572 - restaurant receipt :: use a carbon copy receipt instead of two stupid
rlm@162 1573 copies.
rlm@41 1574
rlm@162 1575 - anti google glass :: glasses with mounted lasers and computer vision
rlm@162 1576 that targets the cameras in google glass and destroy them.
rlm@40 1577
rlm@162 1578 - wearable towel :: towel with clasp, velcro, whatever, that allows
rlm@162 1579 one to wear the towel more securely than just
rlm@162 1580 wrapping it tightly and hoping for the best.
rlm@41 1581
rlm@162 1582 - crossdressing :: Easiest way to disguise oneself as a woman is to
rlm@162 1583 wear a burka.
rlm@40 1584
rlm@162 1585 - book-mode :: intelligent color highlighting for books and
rlm@162 1586 articles. It would disambiguate pronouns and involved
rlm@162 1587 references. For example, if "Rachael" was assigned the
rlm@162 1588 color red, and "the blonde haired girl" refers to
rlm@162 1589 "Rachael", then "the blonde haired girl" would be
rlm@162 1590 colored red. Also, you could disambiguate multi part
rlm@162 1591 run-on sentences by highlighting each
rlm@162 1592 subcomponent. Maybe would also have applications to
rlm@162 1593 scientific reading.
rlm@40 1594
rlm@162 1595 - Handheld light Rain measurement :: this would be a clear, teflon
rlm@162 1596 coated plastic disk with a camera underneath the disk. You would
rlm@162 1597 be able to hold the device out and it would measure the rate of
rlm@162 1598 accumulation of water droplets from fine mists and light rain by
rlm@162 1599 using computer vision to measure the diameters of the drops.
rlm@40 1600
rlm@162 1601 - Big Brother Farming :: This would be a vision system that would
rlm@162 1602 individually monitor each plant and turn on water, etc to ensure
rlm@162 1603 maximum/uniform growth for each plant.
rlm@40 1604
rlm@162 1605 - Discrete Faucet :: A faucet with discrete ticks instead of
rlm@162 1606 continuous.
rlm@40 1607
rlm@162 1608 - Laser Circle :: take a glass microfiliment and shine a laser at one
rlm@162 1609 end at an oblique angle. It will make a perfect,
rlm@162 1610 large circle on the wall, converting a laser beam
rlm@162 1611 into a laser cone, preserving most of the energy of
rlm@162 1612 the laser.
rlm@40 1613
rlm@162 1614 - Invisible Glass :: Take a container of liquid and embed a
rlm@162 1615 glass sculpture made out of glass that has exactly the same index
rlm@162 1616 of refraction and color of the liquid. Then the sculpture will be
rlm@162 1617 totally invisible in the container, and will only be revealed
rlm@162 1618 when the liquid is drained. The container might be a fancy
rlm@162 1619 wine/spirit bottle or an hourglass.
rlm@40 1620
rlm@162 1621 - Caterpillar people :: A race of caterpillar like creatures gains
rlm@162 1622 intelligence after eons of predation by birds, etc. These
rlm@162 1623 caterpillar creatures still undergo metamorphosis into a large
rlm@162 1624 butterfly-like creature. The metamorphosis process turns the
rlm@162 1625 caterpillar's brain into mush and reforms it into a minimal,
rlm@162 1626 dumb, truly insect-like mind, completely destroying the person
rlm@162 1627 the caterpillar was. The society develops all sorts of customs and
rlm@162 1628 religious interpretations of the metamorphosis. It is viewed as
rlm@162 1629 good and natural by some since it is part of their life cycle and
rlm@162 1630 necessary to propagate the species, as only the butterflies can
rlm@162 1631 mate. Some think that the butterflies are still the same person
rlm@162 1632 because they have the same soul, even they no longer posses the
rlm@162 1633 memories or personality of the original caterpillar. Some see the
rlm@162 1634 butterfly form as the "true form" of the species, since the
rlm@162 1635 butterflies can fly, mate, and are beautiful. Many make a big
rlm@162 1636 deal out of the fact that 1-2% of the caterpillar's mind is
rlm@162 1637 actually preserved in the butterfly. Some see it as a terrible
rlm@162 1638 tragedy and argue that the caterpillars should try to stop the
rlm@162 1639 metamorphosis by technology. Practically, some very important
rlm@162 1640 members of society undergo hormone therapy and/or surgery to
rlm@162 1641 prevent metamorphosis so that they can live longer as themselves.
rlm@40 1642
rlm@162 1643 This is a continuation of Marvin Minsky's ideas about pain being
rlm@162 1644 something that preserves our bodies while destroying our minds,
rlm@162 1645 something that is a remnant from our too harsh animal days that
rlm@162 1646 hasn't caught up to the fact that we have very complex brains
rlm@162 1647 now. It's a worst-case scenario about a maladaptive genetic
rlm@162 1648 legacy. Also, it's inspired by "There She Is!!!", which makes a
rlm@162 1649 compelling point about homosexuality by introducing a second
rlm@162 1650 gender characteristic (bunny/cat, male/female), which makes
rlm@162 1651 homophobia look very silly. Here, our own biological legacy of
rlm@162 1652 pain and death is made to look like the tragedy it is through the
rlm@162 1653 lens of the the caterpillar people.
rlm@43 1654
rlm@162 1655 - relationships as a business :: [[http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Up-or-Out-Solving-the-IT-Turnover-Crisis.aspx][Turnover-Crisis]] is an excellent talk
rlm@162 1656 about the "culture of quitting," which is about better business
rlm@162 1657 by letting people go instead of keeping them around past their
rlm@162 1658 "apex". Focuses on information transfer. Cool idea of an alumni
rlm@162 1659 network, which for relationships would be a group of satisfied
rlm@162 1660 ex-lovers, who would recommend new people your way, and who might
rlm@162 1661 consider coming to you again, refreshed from their time away with
rlm@162 1662 new stories/experiences. I should look for examples of this and
rlm@162 1663 how they worked out.
rlm@43 1664
rlm@162 1665 - coffee with tea :: /rlm-tea/ contains 2% sugar, 10% cream, and 20%
rlm@162 1666 dylan coffee. /dylan coffee/ contains 5% sugar,
rlm@162 1667 20% cream, and 10% rlm-tea. Start your mornings
rlm@162 1668 with recursion!
rlm@43 1669
rlm@162 1670 - psychic crystal :: in a science fiction story, this would be an
rlm@162 1671 object that is very easy to move physically but is extremely
rlm@162 1672 difficult to move with telekinesis.
rlm@40 1673
rlm@162 1674 - http://betsofbitco.in/ :: what a great place for an AI/person to
rlm@162 1675 prove themselves as a good predictor. I wish this could be
rlm@162 1676 automated.
rlm@33 1677
rlm@162 1678 - true reflection :: don't forget about that mirror in the student
rlm@162 1679 center!, it's two mirrors at right angles, like staring at a
rlm@162 1680 corner of a room. The light reflects so that it shows you what
rlm@162 1681 you actually look like, instead of your mirror image.
rlm@32 1682
rlm@162 1683 - remote control wasp :: use computer to drive wings with remote
rlm@162 1684 power/logic.
rlm@32 1685
rlm@162 1686 - encrypted email phone book :: public (distributed?) database of
rlm@162 1687 email->private-key pairs, to enable automatic encryption.
rlm@32 1688
rlm@162 1689 - universal eye color :: every equivalent creature will see each
rlm@162 1690 others' eyes as black -- it's universal. Even if the creatures
rlm@162 1691 see in radio waves, and their eyes are 2m long pieces of jagged
rlm@162 1692 metal, when those creatures look at each other, they will see
rlm@162 1693 black, the absence of light and color (since it's being absorbed
rlm@162 1694 by the sensor array).
rlm@162 1695
rlm@162 1696 - intelligent microwave :: it learns where the hot nodes of its fields
rlm@162 1697 are, and uses them to evenly heat any food item. It has an infrared
rlm@162 1698 camera or something to keep track of how hot the food is. That way,
rlm@162 1699 you don't get bowls where the edges are boiling, while the center is
rlm@162 1700 still frozen. Requires a little bit of intelligence/vision, since
rlm@162 1701 the exact pattern of heating totally depends on the exact shape of
rlm@162 1702 the food. Wouldn't need a carousel, and wouldn't need a timer,
rlm@162 1703 just a desired temperature. Could also detect ice, and automatically
rlm@162 1704 defrost the parts which are frozen. Might be able to work much
rlm@162 1705 faster since it can avoid overheating; might have problems with
rlm@162 1706 heating the insides of thick things, might need a weight sensor too.
rlm@32 1707
rlm@162 1708 + Would be much cleaner than other microwaves, since food would
rlm@162 1709 "sputter" and splash liquid much less.
rlm@32 1710
rlm@162 1711 + Throw in some SIFT+R processing to match previously cooked foods
rlm@162 1712 and learn the exact heating profiles for things that have been
rlm@162 1713 cooked before -- it can get faster the more it's used.
rlm@32 1714
rlm@162 1715 - compression :: brain-aware image compression algorithm
rlm@32 1716
rlm@162 1717 - Credit card proxy :: would be a company which works like paypal
rlm@162 1718 except for real world transactions
rlm@32 1719
rlm@162 1720 - Flesh pillow :: a pillow like the arm or torso of a human, complete
rlm@162 1721 with simulated temperature, bones, and heartbeat.
rlm@33 1722
rlm@162 1723 - super screw :: a screw which has only one or two threads and instead
rlm@162 1724 uses compression to fit into a hole (the whole shank
rlm@162 1725 of the screw is split into multiple pieces to
rlm@162 1726 accomplish this; the tip is a point, then the middle
rlm@162 1727 bulges out and gets compressed when screwed in.
rlm@33 1728
rlm@162 1729 - light filter :: (like light tweezers) to mechanically separate
rlm@162 1730 fluids with different index of refraction
rlm@33 1731
rlm@162 1732 - chalk eraser project :: maybe make a directional eraser, for easy
rlm@162 1733 release of chalk dust, like fur, and how it likes to rest in a
rlm@162 1734 certain direction.
rlm@33 1735
rlm@162 1736 - silver socks :: socks laced with silver for the antimicrobial
rlm@162 1737 properties.
rlm@32 1738
rlm@162 1739 - UROP :: magnet gear/metal teeth tape
rlm@53 1740
rlm@162 1741 - Rod of Moses :: device to distill urine through evaporation and
rlm@162 1742 easily dispose of urea crystals for use in desert --
rlm@162 1743 produce drinkable water.
rlm@32 1744
rlm@162 1745 - UROP :: Make the LED in line with the flow for the micro injector, so
rlm@162 1746 that it may transmit maximum flow. Motor that changes
rlm@162 1747 distance of internal magnet from windings depending on
rlm@162 1748 desired speed so as to obtain maximum power efficiency.
rlm@32 1749
rlm@162 1750 - lottery scraper :: web scraper which monitors various lotteries,
rlm@162 1751 looking for "special" gimmick changes in the rules (like 4x
rlm@162 1752 winnings on Wednesdays) and computes expected value...
rlm@34 1753
rlm@162 1754 - Memristiors novel design :: make an evolutionary algorithm to make
rlm@162 1755 old stuff using all four basic circuit elements.
rlm@34 1756
rlm@162 1757 - Conductive concrete :: concrete that has embedded metal fibers so
rlm@162 1758 that it can conduct electricity.
rlm@34 1759
rlm@162 1760 - little bitty melting pot :: might be useful for some types of
rlm@162 1761 manufacturing/3D printing -- how small can an induction melter be
rlm@162 1762 made, for example.
rlm@34 1763
rlm@162 1764 - power strip/timer programmable combination :: meh
rlm@34 1765
rlm@162 1766 - algorithms :: which learn what their inputs are and in what order,
rlm@162 1767 and can adapt to changing circumstances -- they
rlm@162 1768 remember previous arguments and adapt so as to respond
rlm@162 1769 to different connections.
rlm@34 1770
rlm@162 1771 - true pure tones :: hear a true pure tone by direct stimulation of the
rlm@162 1772 nerves of the ear
rlm@43 1773
rlm@162 1774 - mechanical analogue to the electrical op-amp :: would be an object
rlm@162 1775 with two levers -- you pull on one lever and the other moves the
rlm@162 1776 same way, no matter what's in the way or what it is driving. This
rlm@162 1777 analogy could be useful to teach op amps to people.
rlm@34 1778
rlm@162 1779 - paper folding device :: make it convenient to fold lots of papers in
rlm@162 1780 various ways.
rlm@34 1781
rlm@162 1782 - concrete epoxy :: epoxy with sand/ some other solid material.
rlm@34 1783
rlm@162 1784 - light capacitor :: suspend some ball of material with a high index
rlm@162 1785 of refraction and shine light into it so it gets stuck -- would
rlm@162 1786 the light stay trapped forever? Could you build up unlimited
rlm@162 1787 quantities of light inside the sphere (which could then be
rlm@162 1788 released slowly by frustrated internal reflection?
rlm@34 1789
rlm@162 1790 - movie screening :: Movies always are too long at first. One way to
rlm@162 1791 shorten them ``scientifically" is to record blink rate during the
rlm@162 1792 move and then remove / shorten the frames of the parts in which
rlm@162 1793 there are a lot of blinking (average this over multiple people)
rlm@162 1794 better yet, put it online and do it across thousands of people. I
rlm@162 1795 got this from youtube in which there is an episode of kill bill
rlm@162 1796 which is composed entirely of the parts in which people had their
rlm@162 1797 eyes closed. slogan: want to make a movie people can't take their
rlm@162 1798 eyes off of? Just take those parts out!
rlm@34 1799
rlm@162 1800 - optimize an article :: capture reading of a scientific article via
rlm@162 1801 screen capture while people read it, then use it to make the
rlm@162 1802 article better. like the movie-pruning idea.
rlm@35 1803
rlm@162 1804 - super reading program :: teaches people the ideal mental mask to
rlm@162 1805 apply during reading so as to read very fast.
rlm@35 1806
rlm@162 1807 - explosive thermite epoxy putty :: one part would contain the rust,
rlm@162 1808 one part the aluminum.
rlm@34 1809
rlm@162 1810 - reading comprehension :: use the above screen capture routine to
rlm@162 1811 make a quiz program that constructs questions about the content
rlm@162 1812 you seemed to gloss over while reading. could be easy if the pdf
rlm@162 1813 came with embedded questions. Dylan: automatically generate
rlm@162 1814 word-cloud about the parts you found most interesting; help
rlm@162 1815 others who read the same stuff by drawing attention to the
rlm@162 1816 interesting parts.
rlm@34 1817
rlm@162 1818 - hard sword :: make a samurai sword, but use osmiridum instead of
rlm@162 1819 martensite for the cutting part; it should be a better
rlm@162 1820 sword.
rlm@32 1821
rlm@162 1822 - close range wireless :: use the induction technology used to
rlm@162 1823 recharge electric toothbrushes with no metal links to send data
rlm@162 1824 without any metal at all!
rlm@32 1825
rlm@162 1826 - reading :: is a form of synsethesia
rlm@32 1827
rlm@162 1828 - DNA printer :: A machine which translates the text eg, "ACTGAC" into
rlm@162 1829 actual DNA
rlm@32 1830
rlm@162 1831 - black generator :: ferro-fluid magnetic field suspended micro
rlm@162 1832 generator to make electricity
rlm@32 1833
rlm@162 1834 - alcohol battery :: alcohol/fluid flow powered battery
rlm@32 1835
rlm@162 1836 - folding razor blade sword ::
rlm@32 1837
rlm@162 1838 - perfect pitch :: learn perfect pitch using another sense in
rlm@162 1839 combination (sight or touch)
rlm@32 1840
rlm@162 1841 - kaleidoscope projector ::
rlm@32 1842
rlm@162 1843 - razor blade de-sharpener :: for guilt free disposal
rlm@32 1844
rlm@162 1845 - bricks :: filled with luminescent plant material
rlm@32 1846
rlm@162 1847 - bio metallic structure :: metal grids with seeds inside, which grow
rlm@162 1848 together and form a durable biological matrix. The metal
rlm@162 1849 substrate delivers water. (maybe use plastic instead of metal?)
rlm@162 1850 Dylan: enrich plants with inorganic compounds; electrical
rlm@162 1851 interfaces in cellular plant matter => remote-controlled
rlm@162 1852 photosynthetic/bioluminescent structures.
rlm@32 1853
rlm@162 1854 - conducting extracellular matrix :: to allow better control of
rlm@162 1855 organic systems and an enhanced nervous system.
rlm@32 1856
rlm@162 1857 - cross-modal memory hashing :: a way to retrieve memories more
rlm@162 1858 robustly.
rlm@32 1859
rlm@162 1860 - flossing thimble-guards :: (these actually exist)
rlm@32 1861
rlm@162 1862 - rules + lattice learning :: integrate lattice learning with rules by
rlm@162 1863 generating hypothetical examples
rlm@32 1864
rlm@162 1865 - wooden refrigerator :: to give food a better taste Dylan: like
rlm@162 1866 barrels for wine, or planks for salmon. Maybe just have "flavor
rlm@162 1867 planks" for your pre-existing fridge. Need to mitigate effect of
rlm@162 1868 temperature on volatility?
rlm@32 1869
rlm@162 1870 - radioactive transmutation molecule by molecule :: create precious
rlm@162 1871 metals or something else economically advantageous.
rlm@32 1872
rlm@162 1873 - crowd preservation :: inoculate food with tons of harmless
rlm@162 1874 bacteria so that there's no room for bad bacteria as a method of
rlm@162 1875 preservation
rlm@32 1876
rlm@162 1877 - old school preservation :: Pasteur - style holding jar with siphon
rlm@162 1878 as a way to store liquids at room temperature indefinitely w/o
rlm@162 1879 refrigeration.
rlm@32 1880
rlm@162 1881 - restaurant policy :: Throw rude people out of restaurant as a matter
rlm@162 1882 of course -- make ambiance much better.
rlm@32 1883
rlm@162 1884 - clean windows :: make something that mixes soap with fire hydrant
rlm@162 1885 water (and reduces the pressure a bit) and use it
rlm@162 1886 to clean windows of buildings.
rlm@32 1887
rlm@162 1888 - ocarina :: make an ocarina out of pure silver
rlm@32 1889
rlm@162 1890 - fire pen :: pen which burns words on to the page, thus never needing
rlm@162 1891 any ink. Is there a way to make it runnable from the
rlm@162 1892 human's energy?
rlm@32 1893
rlm@162 1894 - website to design your own soda :: and label, and have it mailed to
rlm@162 1895 you / sell it from your own online store.
rlm@35 1896
rlm@162 1897 - solar panels :: that float on the ocean
rlm@43 1898
rlm@162 1899 - handcuffs with more than two cuffs (3?) :: great for daisy chaining
rlm@162 1900 people, binding them to environment, etc.
rlm@35 1901
rlm@162 1902 - vector based SOUND files :: like the pictures but with SOUND. codify
rlm@162 1903 sound in a language with enough symbols so that it can describe
rlm@162 1904 everything and encode it in that. would be like going from speech
rlm@162 1905 to text or smtg. Could also store sound as an image of the
rlm@162 1906 wavefront encoded as a vector image.
rlm@32 1907
rlm@162 1908 - Mouse :: with a horizontal scroll wheel in addition to the vertical
rlm@162 1909 scroll wheel
rlm@32 1910
rlm@162 1911 - logic maintenance system for big institutions :: to make sure the
rlm@162 1912 things they are thinking about doing are not retarded
rlm@32 1913
rlm@162 1914 - http://www.regulations.gov/ :: cool site
rlm@32 1915
rlm@162 1916 - genetically engineered glowing fruit :: sell seeds?
rlm@32 1917
rlm@162 1918 - memory slide :: IF memories are encoded using particular sensory
rlm@162 1919 impressions, what happens if the sensory organ
rlm@162 1920 itself changes? those memories would become
rlm@162 1921 inaccessible. maybe this is why we can't remember
rlm@162 1922 much from our childhoods. also, could this happen
rlm@162 1923 throughout life as well? Could S remember stuff from
rlm@162 1924 his childhood?
rlm@32 1925
rlm@162 1926 - make a completely indestructible phone :: no moving parts or display
rlm@162 1927 you should be able to slam it around all you want, and it will
rlm@162 1928 just work. brutally simple. aerogel around the battery, minimal
rlm@162 1929 interface - never gets too hot, and can be dropped into water. no
rlm@162 1930 holes -- uses field effects for everything from the buttons to
rlm@162 1931 inductive charging and data transfer.
rlm@32 1932
rlm@162 1933 - midi to ocarina "tabs" program :: (online website? buy ocarinas from
rlm@162 1934 it too)
rlm@32 1935
rlm@162 1936 - 3d printing with sound pulses (or just patterns) :: like the 8.03
rlm@162 1937 lecture
rlm@32 1938
rlm@162 1939 - lighter flint on spring :: make hot, throw it at something, and it
rlm@162 1940 makes sparkles!
rlm@32 1941
rlm@162 1942 - nuclear energy :: Rebranding New+Clear Energy with informational
rlm@162 1943 campaign and public debate forum to enforce its
rlm@162 1944 transparent and open nature. France needn't be the
rlm@162 1945 world leader in nuclear energy. (Dylan)
rlm@32 1946
rlm@162 1947 - bubbles :: Engineer a material which has both ductility and high
rlm@162 1948 surface tension to make the "third"
rlm@162 1949 minimal-surface-energy solution to a bubble suspended
rlm@162 1950 between two equal-diameter rings. (Solutions are
rlm@162 1951 cylindrical catenary curve, two separated half-bubbles,
rlm@162 1952 and a double-cone)
rlm@38 1953
rlm@162 1954 - Textbook whose content can be varied continuously :: alter level of
rlm@162 1955 difficulty, rigor, diction, emphasize crossover with certain
rlm@162 1956 other discipline, etc. Content generated dynamically from
rlm@162 1957 knowledge base, along with questions that are moreover altered to
rlm@162 1958 guide knowledge acquisition. Motivation: One book of
rlm@162 1959 knowledge. /One./
rlm@40 1960
rlm@40 1961 ** From Jacob's idea list
rlm@40 1962
rlm@47 1963 - Roommate-canceling headphones: uses roommate's laptop mic to seed
rlm@43 1964 noise cancellation alg in your headphones (would this
rlm@40 1965 work?). -Update on sound canceling headphones that take feed from
rlm@40 1966 tv: how about ones that cancel people talking on the phone by
rlm@40 1967 receiving the phone signals and playing inverse sound
rlm@40 1968 waves. #signalprocessing ~jcole@mit.edu
rlm@40 1969
rlm@40 1970 - ClackerAlert -- tells if you slam the keys too hard using sound data
rlm@40 1971 (and speed/jerkiness data)!.Prevents RSI ~jcole@mit.e
rlm@40 1972
rlm@40 1973 - Panic Pin :: separate pin that you can tell someone if forced to
rlm@41 1974 identify your PIN (idea from idea about credit cards)