# HG changeset patch # User Robert McIntyre # Date 1457965267 25200 # Node ID 8f44e406170161361819fd3236439971ee01aae0 # Parent 23d205b9854ee81c2eddf84ae7e6cbea5f7d034b s. diff -r 23d205b9854e -r 8f44e4061701 org/fear.org --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/org/fear.org Mon Mar 14 07:21:07 2016 -0700 @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +#+title: Self Deception +#+author: Robert McIntyre +#+email: rlm@mit.edu +#+setupfile: ../../aurellem/org/setup.org +#+include: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org +#+html_head_extra: +#+options: num:nil toc:t + + +I used to be a fundamentalist Christian. I truly believed that God was +real, that Jesus died on the cross to save humanity from their sins, +that the world was only 6,000 years old, the whole shebang. There was +a point in my life when I would have died for Christianity. Back then, +one of the things that really bugged me was how my fellow Christians +didn't seem to /care/ about serving the Lord and trying to become more +Christ-like. They believed that they had the answers to how the world +was created, what happens when you die, how to ensure that they went +to Heaven, and the consequences for being judged without Jesus' +attoning blood! Knowing all this, how could they dare to live "normal" +lives that and not honor Jesus by their every action? It seemed like +people lived in a haze, without meaning or purpose to their lives. + +#+BEGIN_QUOTE +The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the +easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. +After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other +scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after +that. --[[http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm][Richard Feynman]] +#+END_QUOTE + + +Xanadu (Ted Nelson) + +M22, Cryonics (Dr. Greg Fahy, Robert Ettinger) + +AI Risk (Eleizer Yudkowsky) + +Creation Science (Dr. Nathaniel T. Jeanson) + + + + + +What if all the work that I've done for brain preservation research is +just an excercise in self deception? + +I resolved not to be like the "casual christians" and devoted myself +to living a godly life. Lives were on the line! If someone died +without being saved, they would suffer in hell forever! How could I +not work to save as many people as possible, especially when Jesus +himself had assigned Christians their first and most important duty to +go into the world and spread the good news? + +I wanted to become a great Christian apologist and win souls for +Heaven. Every day of inaction meant more people who would be lost +forever in hell, and only the body of Christ could help lead lost +people to a better eternity. + +So I poured myself into studying the Bible and learning the rules of +my religion. I made a special focus on learning how to explain +Christianity to people who didn't believe. I took these things very +seriously and by the time I was 12 I had already read the New +Testament twice and spent a lot of my time on +http://www.answersingenesis.com/, learning how the natural world +confirmed the truth of the bible with overwhelming evidence. I prayed +every night to become a better Christian so that I could help +people be saved. + +I wanted with my whole heart to not be "casual", to be a good +Christian, to help people... But it was this very desire that led me +to lose my faith. + + + +I'm just a zealot, and all I've done is trade christian salvation for +technological salvation. + +And even worse, I'm a heretic. I'm just going to get disillusioned +with mind uploading the same way I did with christianity. + + diff -r 23d205b9854e -r 8f44e4061701 org/ideas.org --- a/org/ideas.org Mon Feb 22 17:00:02 2016 -0800 +++ b/org/ideas.org Mon Mar 14 07:21:07 2016 -0700 @@ -19,6 +19,57 @@ getting credit. #+end_quote + - spinal cord made of light; moon :: transit time of light from moon to + earth is same as transit time of signals through spinal cord. So + you could have your mind on the moon and your body on earth and + it would feel the same! + + - semantic darkmode browser extension :: some websites are naturally + dark themed (like aurellem.org) while others are light themed + (like google). At night I like dark themes and during daylight I + like light themes. You can just invert your screen to convert + light to dark, but when tabbing through multiple browser tabs + you end up occasionally spraying your screen with bright + colors. So, have a little button that inverts a single web page + for firefox! Or, you can have a tiny bit of preprocessing (you + just measure the overall white vs dark pixels) and then invert + the page depending on that. + + - optogenetic readout during cruoprotection :: basically a "lightbulb + above the head" to measure activity of selected neurons. + + - carbon dating and immortality :: if you've been /alive/ for a + million years, you'll carbon-dat as being as old as yesterday. + + - gas tenderization :: use high pressure and gas diffusion to both + denature proteins and infiltrate lots of gas into a piece of + meat. Then rapidly decrease the pressure, and the meat will + experience air bubbles similarly to bread rising, and might + become tender and tasty! + + - learning damage from mind uploading :: a person might be uploaded + so that they can answer every question about their life and be + able to perform actions they had previously learned, but due to + incomplete simulation of long term chemical and structural + dynamics, they might have a severe learning disability! + + - holy "spirit" :: most blasphemous liquor + + - truck blindspot lights :: lights that shine on the road and show + where your vehicle's blind spots are. + + - eyelid screen :: you can just close you eyes, but you're reading a + book. it would be really cool and look like rapid eye + movement. In this tech, the screen would replace your eyelid + entirely. The other really neat thing about this concept is that + your eyelid screen is a part of you. You might have some + smooth muscles in it that works like a selection or cursor, and + the scren can feel your eye rolling underneath and tell where + you're looking, allowing for a very immersive experience. It's + like an "all-in" virtual mode, still cleanly separating the real + from the digital, telling others you're in your "virtual space", + and still looking entirely human. + - blockchain based experential memory :: - a hidden world of early life :: I imagine that the bridge form the diff -r 23d205b9854e -r 8f44e4061701 org/tidbits.org --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/org/tidbits.org Mon Mar 14 07:21:07 2016 -0700 @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +** Google Calendar URL API options + + Make your google calendar public (detailed [[https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37082?hl=en][here]]), then get the + puclic calendar URL, which will look like this: + + #+BEGIN_VERSE + https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=&ctz= + #+END_VERSE + + Some useful options include: + + - mode :: options are AGANDA, WEEK, MONTH + For scheduling, I find wither WEEK or AGENDA to be best. + + - dates :: You can specify the dates to display using + yyyymmdd%2Fyyyymmdd, example: 20160313%2F20160320. + + + \ No newline at end of file