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author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Mon, 14 Mar 2016 07:21:07 -0700
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     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