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more ideas.
author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Mon, 22 Feb 2016 17:00:02 -0800
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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.
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22 - blockchain based experential memory ::
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24 - a hidden world of early life :: I imagine that the bridge form the
25 first life forms to even very simple single celled organisms was
26 probably very interesting and a lot more diverse than we give it
27 credit for. Unfortunately, I doubt that we're going to find any
28 good evidence for such creatures, since they don't seem like the
29 type of organisms that would preserve well. All sorts of really
30 neat delf replicating molecules and assemblies of molecules, and
31 we'd have no record of any of them. The only way to get an idea
32 of these types of life will be to make them again in the lab.
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34 - brain insurance :: for the preserved brain
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36 - remote control ants / pidgeons :: train/evolve them to want to
37 follow an EM gradient or magnetic field. put a camera on.
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39 - musical neural inversion :: get a simple model of emotional and
40 auditory circuits, "invert" the model based on sound input, and
41 generate music with constrating satisfaction. Might find some
42 music that's simultaneously "alien" (lacking a top-down design)
43 yet still deeply emotionally coherent and satisfying.
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45 - simulated fire :: for those who say that simulated water can't get
46 you wet, just see what happens if you attach your nerves to
47 simulated output of FIRE. I gaurantee you're going to have a bad
48 time.
49
50 - use lasers to cut large plasticized brains ::
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52 - gravity telescope the size of the solar system ::
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54 - information bearing layer :: to find the spatial / logical scale of
55 the main information containing layer of an information storage
56 device, look at where correlated change happens, and then to see
57 if it's digital, look beyond that and see if the changes are
58 uncorrelated.
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22 - sperm fitness correlation :: it's evolutionary advantageous for a 60 - sperm fitness correlation :: it's evolutionary advantageous for a
23 species' sperm to fail to function exactly when the fetus they 61 species' sperm to fail to function exactly when the fetus they
24 would create would fail. But it's really hard to make this 62 would create would fail. But it's really hard to make this
25 functoinal correlation happen because the sperm cell only 63 functoinal correlation happen because the sperm cell only