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author | Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> |
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date | Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:07:34 -0400 |
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24 you. You can email me at ideas@aurellem.org. | 24 you. You can email me at ideas@aurellem.org. |
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26 If you want to use one of these ideas as your own and run with it, | 26 If you want to use one of these ideas as your own and run with it, |
27 please feel free. I'd love to hear about it if you do. | 27 please feel free. I'd love to hear about it if you do. |
28 | 28 |
29 /There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about | 29 #+begin_quote |
30 getting credit/ | 30 There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about |
31 getting credit. | |
32 #+end_quote | |
33 | |
34 - test dummies :: why don't we clone encephalic humans and use then to | |
35 test /in vivo/ human organ systems and drugs? It | |
36 would be ethical as long as there are women who are | |
37 willing to host the clones, and it would be a | |
38 trememdous resource for studying the human body. I | |
39 see nothing wrong with it morally, since no one is | |
40 suffering, and it stands to save many lives throught | |
41 more advanced technology. | |
42 | |
43 - X-ray telepresence :: given that a doctor is operating on a patient | |
44 via telepresence, one cool things you can do is shine X-rays into | |
45 the patient to view the insides during real time. If the system | |
46 was coupled with a baysean model of the layout of the structure, | |
47 and the x-rays were only fired whenever the uncertaintity of the | |
48 model reached a certain threshold, then the radiation damage | |
49 and surgery risk could be minimized. | |
50 | |
51 - superfluid vascular system :: I wonder what would happen if you | |
52 replaced the blood in a human with a superfluid. What would the | |
53 physical dynamics be? Would the superfluid flow through the | |
54 vasculature, or would it ignore it and travel through the cells, | |
55 or something else entirely. Since superfluids need to be cold to | |
56 retain their superfluidity, how would the dynamics change during | |
57 perfusion of a superfluid, where the fluid gains and looses | |
58 superfluidity as it goes deeper into the body and is cooled by | |
59 superfluid from upstresm. In summary there are two things to | |
60 simulate 1.) replace all blood in human with superfluid | |
61 instantly. 2.) perfuse superfluid into human. | |
62 | |
63 - projective guessing :: I think that we read and see things by | |
64 makeing a really good guess about what we're expecting to see, | |
65 and then searching for our guess in what we see. If it really | |
66 doesn't match, then we start to make more guesses / analyze the | |
67 image from first principles, but most stuff is projective | |
68 guessing. | |
69 | |
70 - Intestinal flora maintainence :: why not innoculate babies at birth | |
71 with "ideal" gut flora instead of whatever bullshit they | |
72 naturally get, thus giving them optimal digestive/nutrient | |
73 extraction capabilities. Might also be abot to make their farts | |
74 not stink for life, too. | |
31 | 75 |
32 - server culture : mirrors :: make a distributed system where people | 76 - server culture : mirrors :: make a distributed system where people |
33 can mirror the websites of people they like -- essentially cover | 77 can mirror the websites of people they like -- essentially cover |
34 the server costs of favored websites. This could make popular | 78 the server costs of favored websites. This could make popular |
35 websites run at no cost. The system would require that the | 79 websites run at no cost. The system would require that the |