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author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:50:09 -0400
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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.
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29 /There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about 29 /There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about
30 getting credit/ 30 getting credit/
31
32 - projective guessing :: I think that we read and see things by
33 makeing a really good guess about what we're expecting to see,
34 and then searching for our guess in what we see. If it really
35 doesn't match, then we start to make more guesses / analyze the
36 image from first principles, but most stuff is projective
37 guessing.
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39 - Intestinal flora maintainence :: why not innoculate babies at birth
40 with "ideal" gut flora instead of whatever bullshit they
41 naturally get, thus giving them optimal digestive/nutrient
42 extraction capabilities. Might also be abot to make their farts
43 not stink for life, too.
31 44
32 - server culture : mirrors :: make a distributed system where people 45 - server culture : mirrors :: make a distributed system where people
33 can mirror the websites of people they like -- essentially cover 46 can mirror the websites of people they like -- essentially cover
34 the server costs of favored websites. This could make popular 47 the server costs of favored websites. This could make popular
35 websites run at no cost. The system would require that the 48 websites run at no cost. The system would require that the