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author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Tue, 12 Jul 2016 21:16:25 -0700
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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.
20 #+end_quote 20 #+end_quote
21
22 - I just had sex spinal tap <<2016-07-12 Tue>> :: measure signals
23 coming from your spinal cord to detect orgasm w/ machine
24 learning. Then your fucking app can post to facebook
25 automatically saying "I just had sex".
26
27 - a billion years of suffering, finally quieted by a noble oil spill <<2016-07-11 Mon>> ::
28
29 - pig egg extraction <<2016-07-10 Sun>> :: put human stem cells into
30 a pig embryo, get the pig to grow human eggs / human
31 reproductive systems, use the pig as an artificial womb. Also
32 can get high quality <5 year old eggs from post memopausal women
33 bu making their stem cells grow new eggs. In general, we should
34 do a lot more transgenic xenobiologu!
35
36 - cortex-doubling <<2016-06-26 Sun>> :: could we do something like
37 the cortex-transplanting experiments except with an aim to
38 greatly increase the size of the brain's cortex-- take a whole
39 cortex from one embryo and just "shove it in" to the other
40 animal?
41
42 - use optical methods to scan in a vynl recored <<2016-06-26 Sun>> ::
43
44 - chilled cubes of quartz instead of ice to cool down a drink
45 <<2016-06-22 Wed>> :: or troll people with lukewarm "ice"
46 water. Aristotle said that quartz was permementaly frozen ice, why
47 not take advantage. And why didn't Aristotle invent child
48 psychology?
49
50 - seedless fruits <<2016-06-22 Wed>> :: could we make sedless fruits
51 by breeding for increasingly /asymettric/ seed distribution?
52 That way, we could breed until the seeds are on the surface of
53 the fruit, then untill they're at the stem, then until they're
54 off on their own branch near the fruit. could be cool!
55
56 - can dogs hear our muscles contracting? <<2016-06-22 Wed>> ::
57 muscles make an infrasonice sound when they contarct. In
58 general, might this be an unintended side channel when it comes
59 to animal experiments.
60
61 - authenticity and responsibility display similar mental glitches
62 <<2016-06-21 Tue>> :: oh, you mirdered someone by presing a
63 button-- then you're not repossible. If you print out an artwork,
64 then it's not "authentic". In both cases we take the requirement
65 for hands to be involved too far and cant't see through a layer of
66 indirection
67
68 - better fixatives with aldehyde dehydrogenaze inhibitors?
69 <<2016-06-20 Mon>> :: the idea is to disable the aldehyde
70 dehydrogenaze enzymes that might react with aldehydes and retart
71 progress. This might be irrelevant given how many fixative
72 molucules might be used during fixation, but these systems might be
73 coupled with negative downstream effects? See
74 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldehyde_dehydrogenase for more details.
75
76 - batch multiple credit card transactions for a coffee shop
77 <<2016-06-19 Sun>> :: if you get a foffee, then get another
78 thing later on the same credit card, then the coffee shop should
79 batch these transactions together at the end of the day to avoid
80 multiple fees.
81
82 - a man has to have balls to cut off his own balls <<2016-06-17 Fri>> ::
83
84 - kerning art <<2016-06-16 Thu>> :: an extention to LaTeX that puts
85 really subtle smiley facse and shit into the whitespacing of a document
86
87 - glare analysis <<2016-06-15 Wed>> :: take a computer model of a
88 building, use ray-tracing to simulate there light goes during
89 different times of the day, and see if the light will bother
90 anyone in "standard" positions, such as desks, counters, etc.
91
92 - almost-silent whispers in the brain <<2016-06-14 Tue>> :: a set of
93 silent synapses are triggered in such a way to create a wealth
94 of important memories, none of which are accessable to the person!
95
96 - jumping forward in time, by changing your brain
97 <<2016-06-11 Sat>> :: and also, the state-space evolution of a
98 brain has loops, etc
99
100 - "draw your own computer" -- an MIT IAP class <<2016-06-11 Sat>> ::
101 you take an 8.5x11 sheet of paper and draw out a simple CPU on
102 it (with connections for a decent RAM chip, and two serial
103 ports). You'd use a fine pen and a magnifying glass, draw from a
104 template, and the class would go over the circuits you're
105 drawing as you draw them. Then you do some VERY BASIC
106 photolithography to make it real! Then you write in a nice game
107 of ZORK or something! Possibly this could be a two-three day
108 class depending on how complicated the drawing has to be.
109
110 - knife with gallium core and M&M resin on the outside
111 <<2016-06-10 Fri>> :: "melts in your enemies' guts, not your
112 scabbard"
113
114 - pizza lathe printer <<2016-06-09 Thu>> :: spin pizza, apply
115 toppings. make it be intriciate. like a tomato sauce
116 spirograph. "spirograph pizza"
117
118 - "conception" of memory <<2016-06-09 Thu>> :: this is almost a
119 kabbalistic mystery, that the molecules used in conception might
120 be the same used to conceive a memory: from Kadell: In Xenopus oocytes, maternal RNA is silent until activated by the
121 cytoplas- mic polyadenylation element binding protein (CPEB) (Richter
122 1999). In Aplysia a new iso- form of CPEB (ApCPEB) with novel
123 properties was found in neurons. Blocking this isoform at a marked
124 (active) synapse prevented the main- tenance but not the initiation of
125 long-term syn- aptic facilitation (Si et al. 2003a,b).
126
127 - mind erasure, all cells live <<2016-06-09 Thu>> :: trypsin in the
128 brain -- dissociate neurons without killing them.
129
130 - delicate flavors pumped through your blood and into your tounge and
131 organs <<2016-06-08 Wed>> :: the infinite snack pump
132
133 - imagemagick converter for ffmpeg <<2016-06-07 Tue>> :: make it so
134 that you can execute any imagemagick command on every frame of a
135 video by using ffmpeg.
136
137 - dyln duel decks -- elbows vs. NO <<2016-06-04 Sat>> ::
138
139 - knife garnish <<2016-06-04 Sat>> ::
140
141 - the "easy" and "hard" problems of mathematics <<2016-06-02 Thu>> ::
142 the "easy" problem is to jsut do things like prove the rieman
143 hypothesis. The "hard" problem is to show why 2 /is/ 2 and not
144 some other number, and what makes /this/ 2 different form
145 /that/ 2. You know, to really /explain/ it.
146
147 - naming convention for marriage <<2016-05-25 Wed>> :: hyphenate your
148 names with a new family last name, then the kids just get the
149 family name. Then other people can call you "Mr. family-name",
150 etc. By Dylan Holmes.
151
152 - light of the mind <<2016-05-23 Mon>> :: a researcher is
153 experimenting with transgenic viruses to do optogenetic
154 experiments, accidentally infects himself. Then from then on,
155 his neurons actually glow with light inside his skull.
156
157 - microwaves to accelerate cryoprotectant uptake
158 <<2016-05-21 Sat>> :: works for osmium during embedding, so why not
159 for cryoprotectants?
160
161 - breed very small dogs, bats, mice, etc <<2016-05-21 Sat>> :: for
162 neuroscience research. I wonder how many generations it would
163 take to surpass the 2g limit of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitti's_hog-nosed_bat][bumblebe bats]]? Then the
164 reduced species would be ideal for whole-brain scanning.
165 Depending on the tech curves, it may indeed be more feasible to
166 start with something like an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_shrew][Etruscan shrew]], bred it for 100
167 generations to be a quarter of the size, and then proceed with
168 brain scanning, rather than starting directly!
169
170 - sun dogs at the final stand <<2016-05-21 Sat>> :: "It was always a
171 one way trip," said the Hero of the Sun. The rest of the heros
172 could only watch as he made his final stand. Amidst the dark,
173 icy gloom, he summoned one last powerful bit of sun-magic,
174 sacrificing himself to hold back the forces of darkness. From
175 hundreds of miles away, the sky brightened with an artificial
176 dawn, and the sky shown with the hero's name:
177 [[../images/star-artic.jpg]].
178
179 With [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g53zcpaXT8o&t=21m23s][this]] playing in the background.
180
181 - space elevator based on string <<2016-05-20 Fri>> :: You have a
182 small dumb robot that walks up and down strings while carrying
183 something. You launch a "spider" robot from a satelite with a
184 bunch of string, tethering one end on earth and one end in
185 grosynchronus orbit. Then you successively make the string
186 bigger.
187
188 - lavender oats -- oatmeal w/ tea -- turns out it doesn't work all that well <<2016-05-17 Tue>> ::
189
190 - all the atoms in a head, all the stories that can be <<2016-05-17 Tue>> ::
191
192 - boltzman brain april fools <<2016-05-17 Tue>> ::
193
194 - exochemotherapy <<2016-05-16 Mon>> :: let's say you have lung
195 cancer, or some other cancer you might need to treat with
196 radiation. Perhaps it could be good to remove the organ from the
197 body (while still having it attached), and apply radiatio, etc.
198
199 - glutaraldehyde as biological glue to bind implants <<2016-04-28 Thu>> ::
200
201 - the blank lonliness of singularity <<2016-04-28 Thu>> :: I think
202 that at least for me, I've always been missing the important
203 spiritual aspect of /duality/. /Duality/ here means that you
204 exist as two or more copies at the same time. There so much I
205 want to focus on, especilly the orthogonal worlds of science and
206 society, that my natural state of orginazation would be to
207 /both/ hole myself up in a lab and work on discovering truth,
208 AND work on talking with peopls and making a great network of
209 friends. I want to be able to really talk with myself!
210
211 - low voltage em imaging + fib sem directly of ASC brains <<2016-04-25 Mon>> ::
212
213 - dildo-shaped earplugs <<2016-04-25 Mon>> :: just put dicks in both
214 your ears. Make them double ended. In general, use earplugs as a
215 platform for making neat things mounted to your ears, like foam
216 flowers or ribbons or whatever.
21 217
22 - ASC as a police evidence preservation technique <<2016-04-18 Mon>> :: 218 - ASC as a police evidence preservation technique <<2016-04-18 Mon>> ::
23 219
24 - multi metal fixation w/ formamide <<2016-04-18 Mon>> :: osmium 220 - multi metal fixation w/ formamide <<2016-04-18 Mon>> :: osmium
25 copper zinc uranium formamide 221 copper zinc uranium formamide
620 816
621 - copper+EG :: if RBCs are rendered impermeabale to EG when Cu is 817 - copper+EG :: if RBCs are rendered impermeabale to EG when Cu is
622 present, then maybe you can destroy RBCs by a mixture of EG and 818 present, then maybe you can destroy RBCs by a mixture of EG and
623 Cu? 819 Cu?
624 820
821 - *##### ENTRIES PAST THIS LINE HAVE BEEN PROCESSED FOR GOOD IDEAS #####*
822
625 - qualia intuition explained :: let's say that you lacked the sense of 823 - qualia intuition explained :: let's say that you lacked the sense of
626 smell. How could you learn what "acrid" means without it. How 824 smell. How could you learn what "acrid" means without it. How
627 could you explain it to someone, without analogy to other 825 could you explain it to someone, without analogy to other
628 smells. We mind-project this real linguistic separation into 826 smells. We mind-project this real linguistic separation into
629 reality and get qualia. 827 reality and get qualia.
704 902
705 - mind bank :: (in contrast to "brain bank") 903 - mind bank :: (in contrast to "brain bank")
706 904
707 - scientist online paper reviews :: 905 - scientist online paper reviews ::
708 906
709 - binary feedback ::like with the soda machine 907 - binary feedback :: like with the soda machine
710 908
711 - trolley cryonics :: change the cryonics protocol around so that the 909 - trolley cryonics :: change the cryonics protocol around so that the
712 death occurs in a non-primary action loop. 910 death occurs in a non-primary action loop.
713 911
714 - binary metric :: you make up new unit names for "2 centimeters", "4 912 - binary metric :: you make up new unit names for "2 centimeters", "4
715 centimeters", "16 centimeters", etc. Then no one will be happy! 913 centimeters", "16 centimeters", etc. Then no one will be happy!
716 BUT, it helps solve metric's problem of intermediate units. (a 914 BUT, it helps solve metric's problem of intermediate units. (a
717 centimeter is too small, a meter is too large!) 915 centimeter is too small, a meter is too large!)
718 916
719 - do it once -- upload :: 917 - do it once -- upload ::
720
721 - *##### ENTRIES PAST THIS LINE HAVE BEEN PROCESSED FOR GOOD IDEAS #####*
722 918
723 - a simple merge procedure for uploads :: 919 - a simple merge procedure for uploads ::
724 920
725 - cure for color blindness :: could it be possible to administer some 921 - cure for color blindness :: could it be possible to administer some
726 retroviruses via direct injection to the retina, to cause some of 922 retroviruses via direct injection to the retina, to cause some of
1115 liquid water over the frozen mass. This takes away basically all 1311 liquid water over the frozen mass. This takes away basically all
1116 impurities and creates "washed ice" then you melt the ice. Maybe 1312 impurities and creates "washed ice" then you melt the ice. Maybe
1117 you could re-use the heat from creating the ice to melt the ice? 1313 you could re-use the heat from creating the ice to melt the ice?
1118 1314
1119 - ultra strength :: allow a person to visualize their muscle 1315 - ultra strength :: allow a person to visualize their muscle
1120 recruitment patterns. Give them adrenaline and let 1316 recruitment patterns. Give them adrenaline and let them feel
1121 them feel what it's like to have the normal limits 1317 what it's like to have the normal limits removed. See if they
1122 removed. See if they can replicate the effects. 1318 can replicate the effects. Evidence that this might be possible:
1319 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/334/6061/1413.long
1123 1320
1124 - phone names :: make a PX record for domain names that's like the MX 1321 - phone names :: make a PX record for domain names that's like the MX
1125 record, except that it is a phone number instead of 1322 record, except that it is a phone number instead of an IP
1126 an IP address. That way, you can use the domain name 1323 address. That way, you can use the domain name registration
1127 registration system to provide names for phone 1324 system to provide names for phone numbers. Then, as long as you
1128 numbers. Then, as long as you control the domain, you 1325 control the domain, you can point people to your current phone
1129 can point people to your current phone number by 1326 number by updating that record.
1130 updating that record.
1131 1327
1132 - edible flowers :: Edible white flowers that you put in a colored 1328 - edible flowers :: Edible white flowers that you put in a colored
1133 solution with flavor. When the flower turns the 1329 solution with flavor. When the flower turns the right color, it
1134 right color, it is also flavored and ready to eat! 1330 is also flavored and ready to eat!
1135 1331
1136 - suicide cryonics :: according to [[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/magazine/06suicide-t.html][this]], people who commit impulsive 1332 - suicide cryonics :: according to [[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/magazine/06suicide-t.html][this]], people who commit impulsive
1137 suicides have a newfound sense of the importance of life. Perhaps 1333 suicides have a newfound sense of the importance of life. Perhaps
1138 they are good cryonics targets. 1334 they are good cryonics targets.
1139 1335