diff org/ideas.org @ 160:23d205b9854e

more ideas.
author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Mon, 22 Feb 2016 17:00:02 -0800
parents ba80a6a67b55
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     1.1 --- a/org/ideas.org	Sat Jan 30 11:49:46 2016 -0800
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     1.4  getting credit.
     1.5  #+end_quote
     1.6  
     1.7 + - blockchain based experential memory ::
     1.8 +
     1.9 + - a hidden world of early life :: I imagine that the bridge form the
    1.10 +      first life forms to even very simple single celled organisms was
    1.11 +      probably very interesting and a lot more diverse than we give it
    1.12 +      credit for. Unfortunately, I doubt that we're going to find any
    1.13 +      good evidence for such creatures, since they don't seem like the
    1.14 +      type of organisms that would preserve well. All sorts of really
    1.15 +      neat delf replicating molecules and assemblies of molecules, and
    1.16 +      we'd have no record of any of them. The only way to get an idea
    1.17 +      of these types of life will be to make them again in the lab.
    1.18 +
    1.19 + - brain insurance :: for the preserved brain
    1.20 +
    1.21 + - remote control ants / pidgeons :: train/evolve them to want to
    1.22 +      follow an EM gradient or magnetic field. put a camera on.
    1.23 +
    1.24 + - musical neural inversion :: get a simple model of emotional and
    1.25 +      auditory circuits, "invert" the model based on sound input, and
    1.26 +      generate music with constrating satisfaction. Might find some
    1.27 +      music that's simultaneously "alien" (lacking a top-down design)
    1.28 +      yet still deeply emotionally coherent and satisfying.
    1.29 +
    1.30 + - simulated fire :: for those who say that simulated water can't get
    1.31 +      you wet, just see what happens if you attach your nerves to
    1.32 +      simulated output of FIRE. I gaurantee you're going to have a bad
    1.33 +      time. 
    1.34 +
    1.35 + - use lasers to cut large plasticized brains ::
    1.36 +
    1.37 + - gravity telescope the size of the solar system ::
    1.38 +
    1.39 + - information bearing layer :: to find the spatial / logical scale of
    1.40 +      the main information containing layer of an information storage
    1.41 +      device, look at where correlated change happens, and then to see
    1.42 +      if it's digital, look beyond that and see if the changes are
    1.43 +      uncorrelated. 
    1.44 +
    1.45   - sperm fitness correlation :: it's evolutionary advantageous for a
    1.46        species' sperm to fail to function exactly when the fetus they
    1.47        would create would fail. But it's really hard to make this