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author | Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> |
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date | Mon, 14 Mar 2016 07:21:07 -0700 |
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1.1 --- a/org/ideas.org Mon Feb 22 17:00:02 2016 -0800 1.2 +++ b/org/ideas.org Mon Mar 14 07:21:07 2016 -0700 1.3 @@ -19,6 +19,57 @@ 1.4 getting credit. 1.5 #+end_quote 1.6 1.7 + - spinal cord made of light; moon :: transit time of light from moon to 1.8 + earth is same as transit time of signals through spinal cord. So 1.9 + you could have your mind on the moon and your body on earth and 1.10 + it would feel the same! 1.11 + 1.12 + - semantic darkmode browser extension :: some websites are naturally 1.13 + dark themed (like aurellem.org) while others are light themed 1.14 + (like google). At night I like dark themes and during daylight I 1.15 + like light themes. You can just invert your screen to convert 1.16 + light to dark, but when tabbing through multiple browser tabs 1.17 + you end up occasionally spraying your screen with bright 1.18 + colors. So, have a little button that inverts a single web page 1.19 + for firefox! Or, you can have a tiny bit of preprocessing (you 1.20 + just measure the overall white vs dark pixels) and then invert 1.21 + the page depending on that. 1.22 + 1.23 + - optogenetic readout during cruoprotection :: basically a "lightbulb 1.24 + above the head" to measure activity of selected neurons. 1.25 + 1.26 + - carbon dating and immortality :: if you've been /alive/ for a 1.27 + million years, you'll carbon-dat as being as old as yesterday. 1.28 + 1.29 + - gas tenderization :: use high pressure and gas diffusion to both 1.30 + denature proteins and infiltrate lots of gas into a piece of 1.31 + meat. Then rapidly decrease the pressure, and the meat will 1.32 + experience air bubbles similarly to bread rising, and might 1.33 + become tender and tasty! 1.34 + 1.35 + - learning damage from mind uploading :: a person might be uploaded 1.36 + so that they can answer every question about their life and be 1.37 + able to perform actions they had previously learned, but due to 1.38 + incomplete simulation of long term chemical and structural 1.39 + dynamics, they might have a severe learning disability! 1.40 + 1.41 + - holy "spirit" :: most blasphemous liquor 1.42 + 1.43 + - truck blindspot lights :: lights that shine on the road and show 1.44 + where your vehicle's blind spots are. 1.45 + 1.46 + - eyelid screen :: you can just close you eyes, but you're reading a 1.47 + book. it would be really cool and look like rapid eye 1.48 + movement. In this tech, the screen would replace your eyelid 1.49 + entirely. The other really neat thing about this concept is that 1.50 + your eyelid screen is a part of you. You might have some 1.51 + smooth muscles in it that works like a selection or cursor, and 1.52 + the scren can feel your eye rolling underneath and tell where 1.53 + you're looking, allowing for a very immersive experience. It's 1.54 + like an "all-in" virtual mode, still cleanly separating the real 1.55 + from the digital, telling others you're in your "virtual space", 1.56 + and still looking entirely human. 1.57 + 1.58 - blockchain based experential memory :: 1.59 1.60 - a hidden world of early life :: I imagine that the bridge form the