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author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Tue, 02 Jun 2015 20:01:35 -0700
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17 #+begin_quote 17 #+begin_quote
18 There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about 18 There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about
19 getting credit. 19 getting credit.
20 #+end_quote 20 #+end_quote
21
22 - mind bank :: (in contrast to "brain bank")
23
24 - Passion of the Christ missed opportunity :: in the Passion of the
25 Christ, they do the entire show using Latin, Aramaic, etc, with
26 subtitles. They should have had a part where Jesus does the
27 sermon on the mount, he turns to the camera, and starts speaking
28 in English, with no subtitles. It would have been 1.) biblically
29 accurate and 2.) awesome. It would have been such a powerful
30 example of Jesus' divinity, and it felt like they were setting up
31 for it the entire movie, and they missed it!
32
33 - scientist online paper reviews ::
34
35 - binary feedback ::
36
37 - xenobiotic methalation rewriting ::
38
39 - trolley cryonics :: change the cryonics protocol around so that the
40 death occurs in a non-primary action loop.
41
42 - binary metric :: you make up new unit names for "2 centimeters", "4
43 centimeters", "16 centimeters", etc. Then no one will be happy!
44 BUT, it helps solve metric's problem of intermediate units. (a
45 centimeter is too small, a meter is too large!)
46
47 - physical pgp signatures :: someone should put together the
48 technologies so that you can digitally sign actual pieces of
49 paper -- some combination of signing a photograph of the
50 contract using pgp, printing a barcode or OR code on the page
51 which links to a website with the signed image, and a web of
52 trust model so that people can authenticate as themselves. All
53 this totally exists already, it's just not convienent.
54
55 - meta eye :: you wire in a third optical input to the human brain,
56 but it doesn't tranduce light form the real world, bus instead is
57 connected to the "internet of things" and shows you metadata
58 about things you are looking at // serves as an interface to your
59 own mind and body. Then eventually simply real things without
60 metadata seem flat and fake compared to the objects in cities and
61 other annotated areas. This third eye doesn't occupy any of your
62 normal visual field but actually EXPANDS your visual field.
63
64 - do it once -- upload ::
65
66 - a simple merge procedure for uploads ::
67
68 - limits of monogamy ::
69
70 - dream rewinding :: how to record a complete dream without disturbing
71 it or modifying your brain? you need to be an upload: split
72 yourself, and one of you stays awake whike the other sleeps. then
73 you detect a dream in progress by monotoring rapid eye movememt
74 in your sleeping self, and you wake yourself up every few minutes
75 and tell yoursef about the dream. Then sleeping-your restarts the
76 dream, continuation passing style, forgetting everything that was
77 just said, and you repeat this process until the dream is
78 over. Then awake-you and sleeping-you merge each other by taking
79 sleeping-you and replaying the memories of awake-you, and you
80 write a final report on the dream using the "saccade" reports to
81 jog your memory.
82
83 - denser than osmium :: do the "misicibility" thing with an osmium
84 alloy to get something even more dense.
21 85
22 - AI hypnosis :: hypnosis might be good for studying AI, becuse it 86 - AI hypnosis :: hypnosis might be good for studying AI, becuse it
23 might probide a "debugger" for ananlyzing the human mind. I 87 might probide a "debugger" for ananlyzing the human mind. I
24 briefly tried this while at MIT, but it needs MUCH more work to 88 briefly tried this while at MIT, but it needs MUCH more work to
25 be properly evaulated. 89 be properly evaulated.
68 pausing" method to prevent overextraction during the dehydration 132 pausing" method to prevent overextraction during the dehydration
69 and embedding steps. I think that you CAN perfuse resins into the 133 and embedding steps. I think that you CAN perfuse resins into the
70 brain, simply because you CAN perfuse viscous rubber when doing 134 brain, simply because you CAN perfuse viscous rubber when doing
71 vascular casts. 135 vascular casts.
72 136
73 - perfusion pausing :: One problem with doing perfusion is that if you 137 - perfusion pausing :: (Turns out this won't actually work!) One
74 STOP the perfusion, you rapidly loose pressure in the organ as 138 problem with doing perfusion is that if you STOP the perfusion,
75 your perfusate leaks out. You can prevent this by submerging the 139 you rapidly loose pressure in the organ as your perfusate leaks
76 organ/head/rat whatever in FLUID at the appropriate level. Use 140 out. You can prevent this by submerging the organ/head/rat
77 something inert like flurocarbon to avoid problems. You would 141 whatever in FLUID at the appropriate level. Use something inert
78 have to slowly decrease the flow rate while simultaneously 142 like flurocarbon to avoid problems. You would have to slowly
79 lowering the perfusing object into the fluid. To start again, 143 decrease the flow rate while simultaneously lowering the
80 reverse the process -- reengage the peristaltic pump slowly while 144 perfusing object into the fluid. To start again, reverse the
81 removing the organ from the fluid. 145 process -- reengage the peristaltic pump slowly while removing
146 the organ from the fluid.
82 147
83 - evoultionary textbook mimiricy :: as surgery becomes more common, 148 - evoultionary textbook mimiricy :: as surgery becomes more common,
84 there develops a distinct selective pressure for individuals 149 there develops a distinct selective pressure for individuals
85 organ layout to look more like the medical textbooks! :P 150 organ layout to look more like the medical textbooks! :P
86 151