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author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Mon, 14 Mar 2016 07:21:07 -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.
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22 - spinal cord made of light; moon :: transit time of light from moon to
23 earth is same as transit time of signals through spinal cord. So
24 you could have your mind on the moon and your body on earth and
25 it would feel the same!
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27 - semantic darkmode browser extension :: some websites are naturally
28 dark themed (like aurellem.org) while others are light themed
29 (like google). At night I like dark themes and during daylight I
30 like light themes. You can just invert your screen to convert
31 light to dark, but when tabbing through multiple browser tabs
32 you end up occasionally spraying your screen with bright
33 colors. So, have a little button that inverts a single web page
34 for firefox! Or, you can have a tiny bit of preprocessing (you
35 just measure the overall white vs dark pixels) and then invert
36 the page depending on that.
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38 - optogenetic readout during cruoprotection :: basically a "lightbulb
39 above the head" to measure activity of selected neurons.
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41 - carbon dating and immortality :: if you've been /alive/ for a
42 million years, you'll carbon-dat as being as old as yesterday.
43
44 - gas tenderization :: use high pressure and gas diffusion to both
45 denature proteins and infiltrate lots of gas into a piece of
46 meat. Then rapidly decrease the pressure, and the meat will
47 experience air bubbles similarly to bread rising, and might
48 become tender and tasty!
49
50 - learning damage from mind uploading :: a person might be uploaded
51 so that they can answer every question about their life and be
52 able to perform actions they had previously learned, but due to
53 incomplete simulation of long term chemical and structural
54 dynamics, they might have a severe learning disability!
55
56 - holy "spirit" :: most blasphemous liquor
57
58 - truck blindspot lights :: lights that shine on the road and show
59 where your vehicle's blind spots are.
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61 - eyelid screen :: you can just close you eyes, but you're reading a
62 book. it would be really cool and look like rapid eye
63 movement. In this tech, the screen would replace your eyelid
64 entirely. The other really neat thing about this concept is that
65 your eyelid screen is a part of you. You might have some
66 smooth muscles in it that works like a selection or cursor, and
67 the scren can feel your eye rolling underneath and tell where
68 you're looking, allowing for a very immersive experience. It's
69 like an "all-in" virtual mode, still cleanly separating the real
70 from the digital, telling others you're in your "virtual space",
71 and still looking entirely human.
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22 - blockchain based experential memory :: 73 - blockchain based experential memory ::
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24 - a hidden world of early life :: I imagine that the bridge form the 75 - 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 76 first life forms to even very simple single celled organisms was