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cryonics links.

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+#+title: Big List of Links for Cryonics
+#+author: Robert McIntyre
+#+email: rlm@mit.edu
+#+setupfile: ../../aurellem/org/setup.org
+#+include: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org
+#+options: num:nil toc:t
+#+keywords: cryonics
+
+This is a list of interesting things related to cryonics, prepared
+initially for Nicholas Juntilla's transhuman meetup group.
+
+* Introduction to Cryonics
+
+  - [[http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html][Why Cryonics Makes Sense (Wait but Why)]] :: very well-written
+       article from the perspective of someone first investigating
+       cryonics. 
+
+  - [[http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html][The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant]] :: talks about death in the context
+       of a dragon that eats everything and seems insurmountable.
+
+  - [[http://alcor.org/Library/index.html][Alcor Library]] :: Lots of material to get started on understanding
+       cryonics.
+
+  - [[http://aurellem.org/papers/html/cryo-em.html][Cryobiology / Electron Microscopy Reading List]] :: A list of papers
+       you might be interested in reading.
+
+  - [[http://www.brainpreservation.org][Brain Preservation Foundation]] :: Organization dedicated to
+       scientifically evaluating brain preservation technology.
+
+  - [[http://www.brainpreservation.org/faq/][BPF's FAQ]] :: Very intelligent discussion of Brain Preservation as
+       a scientific endeavor.
+
+  - [[http://www.brainpreservation.org/content-2/overcoming-objections/][Overcoming Objections to Brain Preservation]] :: In-depth discussion
+       of common objections to brain preservation.
+
+
+* Introduction to Neuroscience / Personal Identity
+
+  - [[https://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_seung][Sebastian Seung's TED talk]] :: Sebastian talks about the
+       "connectome", the pattern of connections in the brain that
+       define an individual's personal identity.
+
+  - [[https://www.ted.com/talks/ed_boyden?language=en][Ed Boyden's TED talk]] :: Ed Boyden, who invented optogenetics,
+       talks about controlling neurons with light.
+
+  - [[http://connectomethebook.com/][Connectome]] :: A book written by Sebastian the serves as a layman's
+       introduction to neuroscience. Reviews the history of
+       neuroscience, our models of the brain, and even mentions
+       cryonics / brain preservation at the end.
+
+  - [[http://connectomes.org/][connectomes.org]] :: Page that talks about mapping the entire
+       connectome.
+
+  - [[http://openconnecto.me/catmaid/][Open Connectome]] :: Place to see really cool partial connectome
+       datasets.
+
+  - [[http://www.openworm.org/][Open Worm]] :: Stephen Larson's ambitious project to simulate the
+       entire connectome of a whole /C. elegans/.
+
+  - [[https://www.janelia.org/project-team/flyem][Fly EM]] :: Amazing project at the [[https://www.janelia.org/][Janelia Research Campus]] to map
+       the entire connectome of /drosophila/.
+
+* [[http://aurellem.org/ASC/html/ASC-introduction.html][Aldehyde-Stabilized Cryopreservation]]
+
+#+BEGIN_HTML
+	    <p class="description">
+	      A brain-banking technology that can preserve all of the
+	      synaptic connections in a whole mammalian brain for
+	      longer than a
+	      century. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cryobiol.2015.09.003">Published
+	      in Cryobiology</a>
+	      and <a href="http://www.brainpreservation.org/small-mammal-announcement">winner</a>
+	      of the
+	       <a href="http://www.brainpreservation.org/asc_rabbit_fulleval">Brain
+	      Preservation Prize</a>. Mentioned in
+	      <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/us/cancer-immortality-cryogenics.html">the
+	      New York
+	      Times</a>, <a href="http://www.popsci.com/researchers-have-preserved-an-entire-rabbit-brain">Popular
+	      Science</a>,
+	      <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-our-minds-live-forever/">Scientific
+		American</a>,
+	      <a href="http://gizmodo.com/brain-preservation-breakthrough-could-usher-in-a-new-er-1758022181">
+		Gizmodo</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fully-intact-brain-frozen_us_56bb942ae4b0b40245c51654?4tic0udi">
+		the Huffington
+		Post</a>, <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2077140-mammal-brain-frozen-and-thawed-out-perfectly-for-first-time/">
+		New Scientist</a>,
+		<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-rabbit-brain-has-been-cryonically-preserved-and-recovered-brain-preservation-prize">
+		Vice News</a>,
+		and <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0747199">BBC's
+		Horizon</a>.</br></br>
+
+		
+
+		<a class="list"
+		href="http://aurellem.org/ASC/html/ASC-introduction.html">Introduction
+		to Aldehyde-Stabilized Cryopreservation (ASC)
+		</a><br>
+
+		<a class="list" href="http://www.brainpreservation.org/small-mammal-announcement">Brain
+		Preservation Prize Announcement </a><br>
+	      <a class="list"
+		href="./ASC/html/ASC-FAQ.html">Frequently asked
+		Questions </a><br>
+
+	      <!-- <a class="list" href="./ASC/html/ASC-images.html">Images -->
+	      <!-- of brains preserved with ASC </a><br> -->
+
+	      <a class="list"
+		 href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cryobiol.2015.09.003">
+		Journal article in Cryobiology </a><br>
+
+	      <!-- <a class="list" href="http://aurellem.org/ASC/html/ASC-motivations.html"> -->
+	      <!-- 	Motivations behind ASC </a><br> -->
+
+	      <!-- <a class="list" href="http://aurellem.org/ASC/html/ASC-limitations.html"> -->
+	      <!-- Limitations of ASC </a><br> -->
+
+	      <a class="list" href="http://aurellem.org/ASC/html/ASC-full-protocol.html">
+	      	Detailed ASC protocol </a><br>
+
+	      <a class="list" href="https://nectome.com">Nectome, ASC
+	      research company </a><br>
+	</p></td></tr>
+
+#+END_HTML  
+
+
+* Miscellaneous Links
+
+  - [[http://logical.ai/entitle/org/fables.html][The Bright Fables]] :: Whimsical stories about life and death, with
+       a life-positive perspective. By Dylan Holmes.
+
+  - [[http://logical.ai/songularity/org/playlist.html][Songs for Life]] :: Collection of life-positive songs.
+
+  - [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0747199][The Immortalist]] :: BBC documentary about mind-uploading
+       research. I'm in it briefly!
+
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+
+
+** A simple merge procedure for uploads
+   Putting aside the philosophical problems around mind-uploading for
+   a moment, imagine that you were /already/ a computer program
+   running on a suitable robotic body. Let's say that the program is
+   based off a detailed emulation of your brain -- no one really
+   understands exactly /how/ the program is doing its computations,
+   only that it faithfully recreates the original biological
+   computations. At this point, you might want to be able to exist in
+   multiple places at once while still maintining a coherent unity of
+   identity, but how do you do it? You /can't/ modifiy your mind to
+   handle multiple bodies at once, because this would require
+   extensive understanding of exactly how your program is doing its
+   computations in order to scale it to multiple bodies. But you can't
+   just copy yourself either, because the copies will eventually
+   diverge leading to a loss of unity of identity. You can't easily
+   merge copies together after they've "diverged" because again, you'd
+   have to come up with a coherent theory of mind to merge the
+   datastructures. One simple way to do merges is this: First, you
+   need to acchitect the robot bodies to record every single bit
+   that's passing through all sensory nerves throughout a small time
+   interval that's insufficient to create significant divergence. For
+   sake of argument I'll assume that you do this each day. This stream
+   of data represents the ultimate "life recording" and can be easily
+   accomplished either in simulation of physical reality by using
+   custom sensory organs, like in [[http://aurellem.org/#CORTEX][=CORTEX=]]. This set of information,
+   if played back to a copy of you in the exact mental state right
+   before the start of recording, would perfectaly match with the
+   choices of the individual and serve as an adequate replacement for
+   the world, even though it contains almost no information compared
+   to the world! Once you can do the "full life records," then the
+   procedure works like this: At the morning of Day 1 you "checkout"
+   the one copy of you from yesterday and make around 10 copies which
+   each live out their day. Each copy records a full "life recording"
+   for the day. Then one copy is chosen as the "trunk" and the rest as
+   branches. The trunk replays the life-recordings of the branches in
+   accelerated time over the night, and the branches are then deleted
+   leaving only one individual that remembers 10 consecutive days
+   spent in different contexts. Then you repeat the process for Day 2
+   and so on. I'll call this the "small delta-T approximation" method
+   for mind-merging. It works as long as the timeframe is not too long
+   an is limited by how fast you can faithfully replay life
+   recordings. You don't have to be "offline" for any amount of time
+   while doing this: You can also alternate two sets of 10, one for
+   the day and one for the night, and have the night and day trunks be
+   generated from the last day / night group's trunk,
+   respectively. This trades having to "sleep" for the day/night crews
+   not being able to remember what happened last night/day
+   respectively. The more you know about how brains work, the faster
+   you can integrate previous experience and the more copies you can
+   sustain. This methods means that you never lose any experience, but
+   if you're willing to lose some nonessential experiences, a more
+   extreme version of this might be to make a copy of yourself that
+   accomplishes a task and then reports anything of note in a written
+   report.
+
 ** Earth, Air, Water 
 
    Probably all intelligent species name their planet "dirt" in their
@@ -335,7 +392,7 @@
    expressed in what I call a "hybrid base", a combination of base 10
    and base 60. You can get absurd things like 100 < 61, and 120 ==
    80! I wonder if these hybrid base systems could be very useful for
-   some purposes!
+   some purposes! Dylan [[http://logical.ai/microwave/org/sawtooth.html][wrote a blog post on this subject!]]
 
 ** Three Eyes
    If you had three eyes, would you still draw cubes like we currently
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 getting credit.
 #+end_quote
 
+ - ASC as a police evidence preservation technique <<2016-04-18 Mon>> ::
+
+ - multi metal fixation w/ formamide <<2016-04-18 Mon>> :: osmium
+      copper zinc uranium formamide
+
+ - blood like cars that knows where to go <<2016-04-18 Mon>> :: maybe
+      with flagellas
+
+ - post antibiotic recolonization from preserved blood <<2016-04-18 Mon>> ::
+
+ - application of poly magnet for perfusion connections <<2016-04-18 Mon>> ::
+
+ - explicit lobbying and influences from companies --- helps make behaviour more predictable and can help to paradoxcically make the lobbying money stronger <<2016-04-18 Mon>> ::
+
+ - glutaraldehyde as a callous hardener <<2016-04-18 Mon>> ::
+
+ - twit-shank-select <<2016-04-17 Sun>> :: and if you actually had a
+      really cool day, then you request that you become the
+      trunk. Gaurantees that you have much more statistically
+      interesting days, every day!
+
+ - twit-shank <<2016-04-17 Sun>> :: much easer, ""minimum viable
+      product"-style mind-merge. Just tweet any significant shit you
+      did that day, then kill yourself. Trunk-you reads the tweet and
+      continues with his day.
+
+ - names that sound stupid today but would be good ancient Greek names <<2016-04-16 Sat>> :: "telethon",
+      "mentos", "mentor". Behold TELETHON, he was a great warrior and
+      runner!
+
+ - <<2016-04-12 Tue>> if only we had gold much more abundant than lead ::
+
+ - <<2016-04-12 Tue>> wood engineered to contain a lot of gold sequestered in the tissues ::
+
+ - <<2016-04-12 Tue>> mtg life counter app that's more like paper ::
+
+ - <<2016-04-11 Mon>> good word for a prostitute : conslutant ::
+
+ - <<2016-04-11 Mon>> old paper book on acid paper preserved in SPURS resin ::
+
+ - <<2016-04-11 Mon>> blood ink :: you can just buy a bottle of
+      hemoglobin and make ink. maybe linseed oil and hemoglobin would
+      work? throw in some sort of crosslinker or something to keep the
+      hemoglobin red? 
+
+ - <<2016-04-08 Fri>> trash horse ::
+
+ - <<2016-04-08 Fri>> soul of the day :: a full life recording
+
+ - <<2016-04-07 Thu>> omega the forsaken :: grade so bad you fail that
+      class and all its prerequisites
+
+ - <<2016-04-05 Tue>> eye ring right angle mirror :: creatures with
+      say six eyes shaped in a ring on their head. They mentallly
+      shift their attention from one pair of eyes to another to really
+      preceive 3D shapes. However, if you pit a right angle mirrr in
+      the back of their head, they can sudetnly incorporate two pairs
+      of eyes simultaneously, perceiving the world in 3.XD, where they
+      see what they call "true depth", where 2D representations of 3D
+      space look hopelessly fake and the coeld has a sort of profound
+      depth to it.
+
+ - <<2016-04-05 Tue>> antibiotic multiplicity :: we shouldn't use use
+      one antibiotic, or cycle them or any of that nonsense. If
+      someone has a problem, give them ALL the antibiotics at once,
+      getting exponentially better chances of killing everything. Say
+      you have two antibiotics with a 0.1 chance of becomming useless
+      everytime you use it to cure someone. The antibiotics are
+      independent molecular mechanisms so it takes two chance
+      mutations to confer immunity. If you use one till it's useless,
+      then the other one, then it takes around 20 times before you're
+      out of antibiotics. If you use both its more like 200 times!
+
+ - <<2016-04-05 Tue>> are animals chronically tired :: I wonder if
+      animals get enough sleep? Maybe not -- after all, they wouldn't
+      necesairly be able to go for 8 hours even if they needed it. And
+      the quality of sleep would be very bad if you're always on
+      edge. I think that a lot of animals look tired a lot of the
+      time. Perhaps in addition to our ability to cook food as a
+      surrogate for our digestive system, our ability to sleep in a
+      confortable, safe place for 8+ hours enabled similar economies
+      for our mental systems! The "comfy" theory of human
+      intelligence/evolution.
+
+ - <<2016-04-02 Sat>> live to a billion seconds :: it's 31 years, 251
+      days, 13 hours, 34 minutes, 54.7843 seconds or something
+
+ - <<2016-04-02 Sat>> hyperlinked physical writing :: you scan in some
+      (handwritten) text and make some of the words hyperlinks. looks
+      incongrous. or an old newspaper clipping from like the 1930's as
+      a pdf, and it has a random hyperlink in it!
+
+ - <<2016-04-01 Fri>> super emulsified transparent manyonase ::
+
+ - <<2016-04-01 Fri>> osmium as a EM catalyst :: cause you can recover
+      it see 1978
+
+ - <<2016-04-01 Fri>> the mind sword of osmium :: uploading, use
+      osmium as a catalyst, make cool sword that's processed a billion
+      human minds
+
+ - <<2016-03-27 Sun>> hay fever straws :: normally you call them
+      "sneezes" but if you have hay fever then you should call them
+      "straws." :P
+
+ - <<2016-03-27 Sun>> the same blue sky :: when I look at the sky, and
+      there's no clouds, then I'm connected the eternity of all the
+      creatures who looked up and saw the same sky. I wonder if you
+      could look up at the sky, then look back down and be in a
+      different time, a different place. 
+
+ - <<2016-03-25 Fri>> fear of number quantity :: people can be scared
+      of one thing, two things, etc, but what about 51 things. this
+      might reveal the limits of object counting. How do there numbers
+      distribute around the population? Is there a spike at numbers
+      like 13?
+
+ - <<2016-03-24 Thu>> water-resistant suit and CPA tube :: so classy,
+      to pop out of a cryo chamber and have the water fall off your
+      suit like in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Udw0RriGrI
+
+ - <<2016-03-24 Thu>> perfuse cryoprotectants into hibernating ground squirrell ::
+
+ - <<2016-03-24 Thu>> active biological camaflogue :: inspired by the
+      mormyrid electric fish paper by *mumble*. What if you were an
+      octopus that could change skin color, and then you combine your
+      vision, skin, and motor outputs to compute what the skin should
+      look like as you move your arms around; you could be perfectaly
+      invisible, and wouldn't have to have the skin be "dumb". Very
+      fast changes in light with no pattern would reveal this
+      "bio-computed camaflogue", though, because the skin wouldn't be
+      able to predict things as well.
+
+ - <<2016-03-24 Thu>> vitrified lab :: imagine a lab contained
+      entirely in the glass from which fibre optic cables are
+      made. It's be neat! there'd be no air!
+
+ - <<2016-03-20 Sun>> curare in a fixative :: might stop fixation
+      tremors. 
+
+ - <<2016-03-20 Sun>> hidden eyes of god :: it's the year 2020 and the
+      first human brains are beginning to be preserved and scanned as
+      part of the human connectome project. As scientists look at
+      electron micrographs of preserved human brain tissue, they see
+      all the expected brain structures: neurons, synapses,
+      mitochnodria, myelin.... and something that's never been seen
+      before: an intiricate filigree of strutures like the neural
+      weaves from Banks' culture series. Human brain tissue from even
+      50 years ago like Einsteins' does not have the weave, and he
+      weave is only in around 30% of the population. Obviously
+      computational in nature and way advanced beyond anything
+      humanity can build, these secret structures reveal an unsettling
+      truth: something is watching us, from within our own minds...
+
+ - <<2016-03-20 Sun>> encrypted priority server ::
+
+ - <<2016-03-19 Sat>> neuro-speakers  :: speakers are the ultimate
+      insturment, most like the human voice. submime. attach to brain
+      and then we can finally sing. 
+
+ - <<2016-03-19 Sat>> book with meanings to onlky one person at one time :: like
+      adam kraft's thing about neural nets with images that look
+      nothing like the object but get classified as that object
+      anyway. You could possibly do the same with a human visual
+      system -- imagine a book that looks nothing like static. You
+      look at the pages, and they seem like nonsense, but you also get
+      a /strong/ impression of a scene and meaning, possibly stronger
+      and more direct than a really good painting. And no one else can
+      see it, and you sleep a night, and can't see it yourself in the
+      morning. Like the "communicating with LSD people" thing as well.
+
+ - <<2016-03-17 Thu>> ligand nonpolar osmium lipid stain for perfuse EM ::
+
+ - <<2016-03-15 Tue>> classified documents and mind uploading :: an
+      important value for forgetting!
+
+ - <<2016-03-15 Tue>> furnace random number generator ::
+
+ - <<2016-03-14 Mon>> how does a lobotomy not cause fatal brain embolisms!? ::
+
  - 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
@@ -151,7 +331,7 @@
 
  - albino fruit ::
 
- - cryoprotectant that increases the nutritional value fo food ::
+ - cryoprotectant that increases the nutritional value of food ::
 
  - faucet enerty :: how much power do you get from an average faucet
       compared to the wall socket?
@@ -163,7 +343,9 @@
  - eat fixed tissue :: can you EAT glutaraldehyde preserved tissue, if
       you wash away all the free aldehydes and make sure that the
       reaction is complete? Can you also cook the tissue? Maybe it
-      would be good!
+      would be good! it would certainly be a very powerful
+      preservative! maybe see
+      http://www.aapd.org/assets/1/25/Karp-09-04.pdf
 
  - intelligence sorting ::
 
@@ -242,1537 +424,1539 @@
       sshfs root@localhost:/ my-root
       #+END_SRC
 
-- not even a nop of damage :: nop == no-op
+ - not even a nop of damage :: nop == no-op
 
-- twittwe vibratoe ::
+ - twittwe vibratoe ::
 
-- value of cancer :: what of value is lost with an easy cancer-cure?
+ - value of cancer :: what of value is lost with an easy cancer-cure?
 
-- blood :: blood is the "wires" that connect organs to each other and
-     impedance match the services that organs provide to other
-     organs. A heart, per se, does not need blood but instead access
-     to the filtering powers of a kidney; blood just connects the
-     kidney cells to the heart cells. That's why "perfusing w/ blood"
-     is entirely missing the point.
+ - blood :: blood is the "wires" that connect organs to each other and
+      impedance match the services that organs provide to other
+      organs. A heart, per se, does not need blood but instead access
+      to the filtering powers of a kidney; blood just connects the
+      kidney cells to the heart cells. That's why "perfusing w/ blood"
+      is entirely missing the point.
 
-- armored helmet :: use fiber-optics to re-route vision and get better
-     shield for eyes. curved plates, kozilek style.
+ - armored helmet :: use fiber-optics to re-route vision and get better
+      shield for eyes. curved plates, kozilek style.
 
-- open source contributions :: way to make them public on your website easily.
+ - open source contributions :: way to make them public on your website easily.
 
-- active opto-glove :: for ENHANCED touch! It's a magnyfing glass for
-     your fingers!
+ - active opto-glove :: for ENHANCED touch! It's a magnyfing glass for
+      your fingers!
 
-- glove screen :: for driving directions, etc. Better than a watch!
+ - glove screen :: for driving directions, etc. Better than a watch!
 
-- osmium + sugar as a histo stain :: the suger interacts with the
-     osmium and retards its progress. you can see details on slices in
-     a light microscope without any more staining, and the EMs are not
-     adversely affected. 
+ - osmium + sugar as a histo stain :: the suger interacts with the
+      osmium and retards its progress. you can see details on slices in
+      a light microscope without any more staining, and the EMs are not
+      adversely affected. 
 
-- encryption camera :: use public key on memory card. The camera
-     writes files encrypted with this public key.
+ - encryption camera :: use public key on memory card. The camera
+      writes files encrypted with this public key.
 
-- immaculate AIDS acquisition ::
+ - immaculate AIDS acquisition ::
 
-- minds and lightspeed :: fastern minds have to deal with lightspeed
-     limitations in their own cognitive architectures.
+ - minds and lightspeed :: fastern minds have to deal with lightspeed
+      limitations in their own cognitive architectures.
 
-- kill with fire :: guy A fires fire blast, with a spell circle to
-     maintain the magic. Opponent B just GRABS the magic and pulls MORE
-     fire. Guy A's circle goes out of control and all his life force
-     gets sucked out to supply more fire. B grabs the magic, crushes
-     it, fires a concentrated red lightning bolt, and eats the
-     rest. "You think that you can kill me, WITH FIRE!?"
+ - kill with fire :: guy A fires fire blast, with a spell circle to
+      maintain the magic. Opponent B just GRABS the magic and pulls MORE
+      fire. Guy A's circle goes out of control and all his life force
+      gets sucked out to supply more fire. B grabs the magic, crushes
+      it, fires a concentrated red lightning bolt, and eats the
+      rest. "You think that you can kill me, WITH FIRE!?"
 
-- magic ekiga ::
+ - magic ekiga ::
 
-- edible crayons ::
+ - edible crayons ::
 
-- library chaining ::
+ - library chaining ::
  
-- hypnosis + that drug that makes you loose continuity :: can the
-     hypnosos plant things during this time?
+ - hypnosis + that drug that makes you loose continuity :: can the
+      hypnosos plant things during this time?
 
-- forgotten services :: use "ovbilion" somehow. Some sleeping drugs
-     make you forget the hour or so before you go to bed. Use this to
-     create forgotten services. 
+ - forgotten services :: use "ovbilion" somehow. Some sleeping drugs
+      make you forget the hour or so before you go to bed. Use this to
+      create forgotten services. 
 
-- dibenzelene -- mike darwin ::
+ - dibenzelene -- mike darwin ::
 
-- sleepy perfusion :: if brains naturally expand / contract depending
-     on resting / awake state, we should investigate the EMs of brains
-     fixed during "sleep" mode  and those fixed during "awake"
-     mode. (while still using anesthetic of course).
+ - sleepy perfusion :: if brains naturally expand / contract depending
+      on resting / awake state, we should investigate the EMs of brains
+      fixed during "sleep" mode  and those fixed during "awake"
+      mode. (while still using anesthetic of course).
 
-- shit flavored dog treats :: because dogs would probably like them. 
+ - shit flavored dog treats :: because dogs would probably like them. 
 
-- fume hood incense :: so make sure the fume hood is working
+ - fume hood incense :: so make sure the fume hood is working
 
-- infinity coin :: s.f. concept -- billions are uploaded by using
-     osmium as a "mind uploading catalyst". osmium is put ino the
-     brain, they brain is scanned, and the osmium is recycled. Then
-     you make coins out of the osmium that has gone through billions
-     of these cycles.
+ - infinity coin :: s.f. concept -- billions are uploaded by using
+      osmium as a "mind uploading catalyst". osmium is put ino the
+      brain, they brain is scanned, and the osmium is recycled. Then
+      you make coins out of the osmium that has gone through billions
+      of these cycles.
 
-- mamilian dive reflex as a method of preparing organs for cryopreservation ::
+ - mamilian dive reflex as a method of preparing organs for cryopreservation ::
 
-- spinal encryption :: like an X server, except your body parts each
-     run these servers. You all have clocks, and you have to sign your
-     muscle commands with your private key in order to control your
-     body. 
+ - spinal encryption :: like an X server, except your body parts each
+      run these servers. You all have clocks, and you have to sign your
+      muscle commands with your private key in order to control your
+      body. 
 
-- suicide note as a mental excercise :: from NPR, ted talk, teenagers, etc.
+ - suicide note as a mental excercise :: from NPR, ted talk, teenagers, etc.
 
-- microscope clamp magnet ring thing ::
+ - microscope clamp magnet ring thing ::
 
-- cup that fills from the bottom ::
+ - cup that fills from the bottom :: (you put it on a thing and it starts filling
 
-- pronouncaeble liscense plates ::
+ - pronouncaeble liscense plates :: (just avoid certain unpronounceable combinations of letters/numbers. It doesn't even change the search space much!)
 
-- instant-awake vs natural awakening :: cognitive behavioural
-     difference tells you important things about the waking process.
+ - instant-awake vs natural awakening :: cognitive behavioural
+      difference tells you important things about the waking process.
 
-- asethetics and personal identity :: if you go to germany, you're not
-     the same person anymore.
+ - asethetics and personal identity :: if you go to germany, you're not
+      the same person anymore.
 
-- arch linux diff cache :: should only download differences between
-     the new package and the most rcent archive file. Can
-     precalculate. Would make mirrors/upgrading so much faster.
+ - arch linux diff cache :: should only download differences between
+      the new package and the most rcent archive file. Can
+      precalculate. Would make mirrors/upgrading so much faster.
 
-- low gravity perfusion :: then you can use cappaliary action. From
-     this: http://www.wired.com/2015/01/coffee-cup-designed-let-astronauts-sip-espresso-space/
+ - low gravity perfusion :: then you can use cappaliary action. From
+      this: http://www.wired.com/2015/01/coffee-cup-designed-let-astronauts-sip-espresso-space/
 
-- rational advertiting :: a new criteria for advertisting -- given
-     same ad structure for two different produces, what structure
-     leads to the most people picking the "optimal" choice.
+ - rational advertiting :: a new criteria for advertisting -- given
+      same ad structure for two different produces, what structure
+      leads to the most people picking the "optimal" choice.
 
-- autoclone bootstrapping :: to breed male with self: you make a clone
-     of the male that's broken, male and female, the bootstrap with
-     those gametes
+ - autoclone bootstrapping :: to breed male with self: you make a clone
+      of the male that's broken, male and female, the bootstrap with
+      those gametes
 
-- position independent numbers :: like latin for numbers. You'd use
-     color, endings, relative size, etc to determine what place the
-     number has. Very convientnt for order or magnitude calculations.
+ - position independent numbers :: like latin for numbers. You'd use
+      color, endings, relative size, etc to determine what place the
+      number has. Very convientnt for order or magnitude calculations.
 
-- dead man switch activated linux user account ::
+ - dead man switch activated linux user account ::
 
-- embowlement :: condencending reference to embodiment
+ - embowlement :: condencending reference to embodiment
 
-- water staff  :: drinksy walking staff w/ water
+ - water staff  :: drinksy walking staff w/ water
 
-- melanin transfection ::
+ - melanin transfection ::
 
-- retention of neurotransmitters / other small molecules during fixation by use of an extracellular polymer such as PVP ::
+ - retention of neurotransmitters / other small molecules during fixation by use of an extracellular polymer such as PVP ::
 
-- machines :: Knowing we are machines does not diminish us; instead it
-     opens our minds to the awe-inspiring complexity that is the human
-     mind. Those who prefer to attribute consciousness to a "soul" or
-     other metaphysical process are the ones who diminish man to a
-     mere cartoon caricature.
+ - machines :: Knowing we are machines does not diminish us; instead it
+      opens our minds to the awe-inspiring complexity that is the human
+      mind. Those who prefer to attribute consciousness to a "soul" or
+      other metaphysical process are the ones who diminish man to a
+      mere cartoon caricature.
 
-- why does glut change osmotic setpoints in cells :: perhaps either 1)
-     It makes the membrane permeable to small molecules or 2)
-     crosslinking proteins means less colagative effects.
+ - why does glut change osmotic setpoints in cells :: perhaps either 1)
+      It makes the membrane permeable to small molecules or 2)
+      crosslinking proteins means less colagative effects.
 
-- Hemocyanin based blood washout solution :: for artificial blood, it
-     can be hard to carry enough oxygen because haemoglobin needs to
-     be in RBCs in order to effectively carry oxygen. However,
-     hemocyanin, a copper based oxygen carrying protein, doesn't have
-     this restriction, so it might make particurally good artificial
-     blood. Might also be great for making oxygenated fixative
-     solutions!  In fact, hemocyanin is more efficient than hemoglobin
-     for carrying oxygen at low temperatures, perfect for
-     cooling/blood washout! Hemocyanin could also serve to establish
-     oncotic pressure in a blood washout solution since it weighs 75
-     kilodaltons.
+ - Hemocyanin based blood washout solution :: for artificial blood, it
+      can be hard to carry enough oxygen because haemoglobin needs to
+      be in RBCs in order to effectively carry oxygen. However,
+      hemocyanin, a copper based oxygen carrying protein, doesn't have
+      this restriction, so it might make particurally good artificial
+      blood. Might also be great for making oxygenated fixative
+      solutions!  In fact, hemocyanin is more efficient than hemoglobin
+      for carrying oxygen at low temperatures, perfect for
+      cooling/blood washout! Hemocyanin could also serve to establish
+      oncotic pressure in a blood washout solution since it weighs 75
+      kilodaltons.
 
-- osmotic buffer :: polymer which polymerizes / splits apart in order
-     to maintain the osmolality of a solution.
+ - osmotic buffer :: polymer which polymerizes / splits apart in order
+      to maintain the osmolality of a solution.
 
-- shoes w/ embedded computers :: and have little clickey things you
-     operate with your big toe.
+ - shoes w/ embedded computers :: and have little clickey things you
+      operate with your big toe.
 
-- gb codec ::
+ - gb codec ::
 
-- ultrasonic cell disruptor to make foor ::
+ - ultrasonic cell disruptor to make foor ::
 
-- particle accelarator asd an awesome electron microscop ::
+ - particle accelarator asd an awesome electron microscop ::
 
-- tolouadine blue pen :: use biological stains as dyes for ink pens?
+ - tolouadine blue pen :: use biological stains as dyes for ink pens?
 
-- clock stop explination :: you have a "visual buffer" which needs to
-     fill up whenever you switch out from one scene to another. This
-     is the clock stop illusion.
+ - clock stop explination :: you have a "visual buffer" which needs to
+      fill up whenever you switch out from one scene to another. This
+      is the clock stop illusion.
 
-- coffee ad space :: Your coffee stock was brought to you by google,
-     the only company that brings you comfort and love in your harsh
-     and heartless corporate world. This is majestic guerrila
-     marketing. 
+ - coffee ad space :: Your coffee stock was brought to you by google,
+      the only company that brings you comfort and love in your harsh
+      and heartless corporate world. This is majestic guerrila
+      marketing. 
 
-- geo-synchro browsing :: you get a bunch of proxy servers, and then
-     you visit websites and synchronize the views from each of these
-     proxies into one view. Then you can see the differences by
-     conutry/region. This is a way to experience the "neutral"
-     internet by averging the effects of ip-tracing.
+ - geo-synchro browsing :: you get a bunch of proxy servers, and then
+      you visit websites and synchronize the views from each of these
+      proxies into one view. Then you can see the differences by
+      conutry/region. This is a way to experience the "neutral"
+      internet by averging the effects of ip-tracing.
 
-- periodic table of genders :: arrange people by bahaviour, particular
-     what sort of bonds they can form with other people.
+ - periodic table of genders :: arrange people by bahaviour, particular
+      what sort of bonds they can form with other people.
 
-- ice cream protein synthesis ::
+ - ice cream protein synthesis ::
 
-- colored EM :: different heavy metals might possibly have different
-     intensities for different electron acceleration voltages. So this
-     could be the basis for colored EM images!
+ - colored EM :: different heavy metals might possibly have different
+      intensities for different electron acceleration voltages. So this
+      could be the basis for colored EM images!
 
-- expansion microscopy dual :: this would be a process where you
-     define a molecular scale object using larger microscopic
-     components. Then nanotechnology goes through and replaces each
-     "atomic macro block" with the appropriate atomic construct. That
-     way you can use microscopic 3D printing and a special purpose
-     form of nanotechnolical assembler to create any molecular
-     arrangement. 
+ - expansion microscopy dual :: this would be a process where you
+      define a molecular scale object using larger microscopic
+      components. Then nanotechnology goes through and replaces each
+      "atomic macro block" with the appropriate atomic construct. That
+      way you can use microscopic 3D printing and a special purpose
+      form of nanotechnolical assembler to create any molecular
+      arrangement. 
 
-- anoxic glut :: what happens when you try to fix tissues in an
-     environment completely devoid of oxygen?
+ - anoxic glut :: what happens when you try to fix tissues in an
+      environment completely devoid of oxygen?
 
-- copper+EG :: if RBCs are rendered impermeabale to EG when Cu is
-     present, then maybe you can destroy RBCs by a mixture of EG and
-     Cu? 
+ - copper+EG :: if RBCs are rendered impermeabale to EG when Cu is
+      present, then maybe you can destroy RBCs by a mixture of EG and
+      Cu? 
 
-- qualia intuition explained :: let's say that you lacked the sense of
-     smell. How could you learn what "acrid" means without it. How
-     could you explain it to someone, without analogy to other
-     smells. We mind-project this real linguistic separation into
-     reality and get qualia.
+ - qualia intuition explained :: let's say that you lacked the sense of
+      smell. How could you learn what "acrid" means without it. How
+      could you explain it to someone, without analogy to other
+      smells. We mind-project this real linguistic separation into
+      reality and get qualia.
 
-- spinal relay :: you have a small air-gapped repeater built into your
-     spine in order to help with spinal injury, connect with
-     prosthetics, and to monitor/control your body. Also, you could
-     add the ability to save "macros"!
+ - spinal relay :: you have a small air-gapped repeater built into your
+      spine in order to help with spinal injury, connect with
+      prosthetics, and to monitor/control your body. Also, you could
+      add the ability to save "macros"!
 
-- human cysts :: there should be communities of people with varying
-     enforced separations from the rest of society in order to gaurd
-     against various catastrophies.
+ - human cysts :: there should be communities of people with varying
+      enforced separations from the rest of society in order to gaurd
+      against various catastrophies.
 
-- bioelectric synthesis :: have a device which stores a lot of energy,
-     and processes blood by creating sugar from waste produces over
-     the day. You still need water, vitamins, minerals, etc, but this
-     can handle the bulk of your energy demands and be recharged from
-     the wall.
+ - bioelectric synthesis :: have a device which stores a lot of energy,
+      and processes blood by creating sugar from waste produces over
+      the day. You still need water, vitamins, minerals, etc, but this
+      can handle the bulk of your energy demands and be recharged from
+      the wall.
 
-- chelation as a method to improve cryoprotectant permeability ::
+ - chelation as a method to improve cryoprotectant permeability ::
 
-- transgender fruit analogy :: like tomatoes
+ - transgender fruit analogy :: like tomatoes
 
-- video game controllers as actual controllers :: console controlers
-     like the n64 trident are excellent, durable tools for fine
-     control. We should use them to control all sorts of things like
-     robots by default. You should use it for your projects, since
-     it's unlikely you'll be able to come up with something
-     better. Compared to console controllers, the ones we use for
-     robots/RC stuff are hopelessly clunky.
+ - video game controllers as actual controllers :: console controlers
+      like the n64 trident are excellent, durable tools for fine
+      control. We should use them to control all sorts of things like
+      robots by default. You should use it for your projects, since
+      it's unlikely you'll be able to come up with something
+      better. Compared to console controllers, the ones we use for
+      robots/RC stuff are hopelessly clunky.
 
-- bubble computers :: bubble duality, bubble computing
+ - bubble computers :: bubble duality, bubble computing
 
-- dark blood bag :: blood bags in hospitals should be dark colored to
-     protect the blood from damage from light.
+ - dark blood bag :: blood bags in hospitals should be dark colored to
+      protect the blood from damage from light.
 
-- chimeric homozygous sex chromosomes :: chimeric organism with XX and
-     XX patterns from two males and two females. On average, it has
-     the correct methylation pattern. Would it work?
+ - chimeric homozygous sex chromosomes :: chimeric organism with XX and
+      XX patterns from two males and two females. On average, it has
+      the correct methylation pattern. Would it work?
 
-- horseshoe blood fixative :: would it work as a washout?
+ - horseshoe blood fixative :: would it work as a washout?
 
-- fixed protein packets :: group of fixed proteins in a network which
-     is used as medicine. Hemoglovin, maybe?
+ - fixed protein packets :: group of fixed proteins in a network which
+      is used as medicine. Hemoglovin, maybe?
 
-- prove hauntings :: website where you enter your pgp signed encrypted
-     file and swear by all the gods that you'll haunt me with the
-     password when you die, along with whatever other messages you
-     have. protocol -- I video, throw rock, get password.
+ - prove hauntings :: website where you enter your pgp signed encrypted
+      file and swear by all the gods that you'll haunt me with the
+      password when you die, along with whatever other messages you
+      have. protocol -- I video, throw rock, get password.
 
-- earth air water :: probably all intelligent species name their
-     planet "dirt" in their language, unless the're aquatic or flying,
-     then they'd name it "water" and "air" respectively.
+ - earth air water :: probably all intelligent species name their
+      planet "dirt" in their language, unless the're aquatic or flying,
+      then they'd name it "water" and "air" respectively.
 
-- ethylene glycol alt name :: icebane
+ - ethylene glycol alt name :: icebane
 
-- overflow hiaku :: a hiku about buffer overflos, with garbage C code
-     inside.
+ - overflow hiaku :: a hiku about buffer overflos, with garbage C code
+      inside.
 
-- white knight :: his sword is named "Privledge" (an inherited family
-     sword) he rides along the land, defending the code of
-     chivralirary and keeping the orthodozy of society from fading
-     from the realm.
+ - white knight :: his sword is named "Privledge" (an inherited family
+      sword) he rides along the land, defending the code of
+      chivralirary and keeping the orthodozy of society from fading
+      from the realm.
 
-- technological deflation :: even the richest robber baron from the
-     1920's could not afford a cardiac bypass surgery, even with
-     literally all the money they had. As technology advances, the
-     price of bread may go up, but the capabilities which money gives
-     you also dramatically increase.
+ - technological deflation :: even the richest robber baron from the
+      1920's could not afford a cardiac bypass surgery, even with
+      literally all the money they had. As technology advances, the
+      price of bread may go up, but the capabilities which money gives
+      you also dramatically increase.
 
-- cure for color blindness :: could it be possible to administer some
-     retroviruses via direct injection to the retina, to cause some of
-     the cells in the retina to begin expressing different color
-     pigments? The brain ought to easily sort out the rest and enable
-     color vision. Furthremore, could we add some more colors to
-     baesline human eyes? Theory -- people who are color blind have
-     better color spatial accuity for the colors they can see, because
-     this it the tradeoff here involved with the retrovirus
-     therapy. Re-purposing color detectors to see new colors at the
-     expense of spatial acuity for the old set of colors.
+ - mental integrity test :: if your brain starts to decay, you might
+      not notice the damage until it's too late. This would be a mental
+      integrity test that you take every few weeks that measures your
+      performance and compares it to a baseline. The tests are all
+      designed to catch the early signs of degenerative brain
+      diseases. For example, you might use performamce on a
+      smell-memory assoaction test to detect early-onset Alzheimer's.
 
-- mental integrity test :: if your brain starts to decay, you might
-     not notice the damage until it's too late. This would be a mental
-     integrity test that you take every few weeks that measures your
-     performance and compares it to a baseline. The tests are all
-     designed to catch the early signs of degenerative brain
-     diseases. For example, you might use performamce on a
-     smell-memory assoaction test to detect early-onset Alzheimer's.
+ - mind bank :: (in contrast to "brain bank")
 
-- mind bank :: (in contrast to "brain bank")
+ - scientist online paper reviews ::
 
-- Passion of the Christ missed opportunity :: in the Passion of the
-     Christ, they do the entire show using Latin, Aramaic, etc, with
-     subtitles. They should have had a part where Jesus does the
-     sermon on the mount, he turns to the camera, and starts speaking
-     in English, with no subtitles. It would have been 1.) biblically
-     accurate and 2.) awesome. It would have been such a powerful
-     example of Jesus' divinity, and it felt like they were setting up
-     for it the entire movie, and they missed it!
+ - binary feedback ::like with the soda machine
 
-- scientist online paper reviews ::
+ - trolley cryonics :: change the cryonics protocol around so that the
+      death occurs in a non-primary action loop.
 
-- binary feedback ::
+ - binary metric :: you make up new unit names for "2 centimeters", "4
+      centimeters", "16 centimeters", etc. Then no one will be happy!
+      BUT, it helps solve metric's problem of intermediate units. (a
+      centimeter is too small, a meter is too large!)
 
-- xenobiotic methalation rewriting ::
+ - do it once -- upload ::
 
-- trolley cryonics :: change the cryonics protocol around so that the
-     death occurs in a non-primary action loop.
+ - *##### ENTRIES PAST THIS LINE HAVE BEEN PROCESSED FOR GOOD IDEAS #####*
 
-- binary metric :: you make up new unit names for "2 centimeters", "4
-     centimeters", "16 centimeters", etc. Then no one will be happy!
-     BUT, it helps solve metric's problem of intermediate units. (a
-     centimeter is too small, a meter is too large!)
+ - a simple merge procedure for uploads ::
 
-- physical pgp signatures :: someone should put together the
-     technologies so that you can digitally sign actual pieces of
-     paper -- some combination of signing a photograph of the
-     contract using pgp, printing a barcode or OR code on the page
-     which links to a website with the signed image, and a web of
-     trust model so that people can authenticate as themselves. All
-     this totally exists already, it's just not convienent. 
+ - cure for color blindness :: could it be possible to administer some
+      retroviruses via direct injection to the retina, to cause some of
+      the cells in the retina to begin expressing different color
+      pigments? The brain ought to easily sort out the rest and enable
+      color vision. Furthremore, could we add some more colors to
+      baesline human eyes? Theory -- people who are color blind have
+      better color spatial accuity for the colors they can see, because
+      this it the tradeoff here involved with the retrovirus
+      therapy. Re-purposing color detectors to see new colors at the
+      expense of spatial acuity for the old set of colors.
 
-- meta eye :: you wire in a third optical input to the human brain,
-     but it doesn't tranduce light form the real world, bus instead is
-     connected to the "internet of things" and shows you metadata
-     about things you are looking at // serves as an interface to your
-     own mind and body. Then eventually simply real things without
-     metadata seem flat and fake compared to the objects in cities and
-     other annotated areas. This third eye doesn't occupy any of your
-     normal visual field but actually EXPANDS your visual field.
+ - Passion of the Christ missed opportunity :: in the Passion of the
+      Christ, they do the entire show using Latin, Aramaic, etc, with
+      subtitles. They should have had a part where Jesus does the
+      sermon on the mount, he turns to the camera, and starts speaking
+      in English, with no subtitles. It would have been 1.) biblically
+      accurate and 2.) awesome. It would have been such a powerful
+      example of Jesus' divinity, and it felt like they were setting up
+      for it the entire movie, and they missed it!
 
-- do it once -- upload ::
+ - xenobiotic methalation rewriting ::
 
-- a simple merge procedure for uploads ::
+ - physical pgp signatures :: someone should put together the
+      technologies so that you can digitally sign actual pieces of
+      paper -- some combination of signing a photograph of the
+      contract using pgp, printing a barcode or OR code on the page
+      which links to a website with the signed image, and a web of
+      trust model so that people can authenticate as themselves. All
+      this totally exists already, it's just not convienent. 
 
-- limits of monogamy ::
+ - meta eye :: you wire in a third optical input to the human brain,
+      but it doesn't tranduce light form the real world, bus instead is
+      connected to the "internet of things" and shows you metadata
+      about things you are looking at // serves as an interface to your
+      own mind and body. Then eventually simply real things without
+      metadata seem flat and fake compared to the objects in cities and
+      other annotated areas. This third eye doesn't occupy any of your
+      normal visual field but actually EXPANDS your visual field.
 
-- dream rewinding :: how to record a complete dream without disturbing
-     it or modifying your brain? you need to be an upload: split
-     yourself, and one of you stays awake whike the other sleeps. then
-     you detect a dream in progress by monotoring rapid eye movememt
-     in your sleeping self, and you wake yourself up every few minutes
-     and tell yoursef about the dream. Then sleeping-your restarts the
-     dream, continuation passing style, forgetting everything that was
-     just said, and you repeat this process until the dream is
-     over. Then awake-you and sleeping-you merge each other by taking
-     sleeping-you and replaying the memories of awake-you, and you
-     write a final report on the dream using the "saccade" reports to
-     jog your memory. 
+ - limits of monogamy ::
 
-- denser than osmium :: do the "misicibility" thing with an osmium
-     alloy to get something even more dense.
+ - dream rewinding :: how to record a complete dream without disturbing
+      it or modifying your brain? you need to be an upload: split
+      yourself, and one of you stays awake whike the other sleeps. then
+      you detect a dream in progress by monotoring rapid eye movememt
+      in your sleeping self, and you wake yourself up every few minutes
+      and tell yoursef about the dream. Then sleeping-your restarts the
+      dream, continuation passing style, forgetting everything that was
+      just said, and you repeat this process until the dream is
+      over. Then awake-you and sleeping-you merge each other by taking
+      sleeping-you and replaying the memories of awake-you, and you
+      write a final report on the dream using the "saccade" reports to
+      jog your memory. 
 
-- AI hypnosis :: hypnosis might be good for studying AI, becuse it
-     might probide a "debugger" for ananlyzing the human mind. I
-     briefly tried this while at MIT, but it needs MUCH more work to
-     be properly evaulated.
+ - denser than osmium :: do the "misicibility" thing with an osmium
+      alloy to get something even more dense.
 
-- becomming alive :: upload faces challenges to grow into they type of
-     person that can join the greater society -- a god. They have to
-     go though quests that replicate all the things that humanity had
-     to accomplish, like going to the moon, by themselves, in a
-     virtual world where they cannot die and never get tired.
+ - AI hypnosis :: hypnosis might be good for studying AI, becuse it
+      might probide a "debugger" for ananlyzing the human mind. I
+      briefly tried this while at MIT, but it needs MUCH more work to
+      be properly evaulated.
 
-- population distorted map of USA :: to see states sizes in terms of #
-     of people. (already exists!
-     http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/cart/doc/) 
+ - becomming alive :: upload faces challenges to grow into they type of
+      person that can join the greater society -- a god. They have to
+      go though quests that replicate all the things that humanity had
+      to accomplish, like going to the moon, by themselves, in a
+      virtual world where they cannot die and never get tired.
 
-- butterfly drone :: if big butterflies used to exist, then maybe we
-     could make butterfly-inspired drones!
+ - population distorted map of USA :: to see states sizes in terms of #
+      of people. (already exists!
+      http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/cart/doc/) 
 
-- methylation sex symmetry breaking :: So, human cells have
-     methylation patterns that encode male/female origin. If you
-     combine two male patterns, the fetus grows "too fast" and
-     dies. Two female patterns causes the fetus to enter a "vegatable"
-     state and fail to develop. Evolutionary biologists will say that
-     this reflects the asymmetry of energy investement for creating
-     offspring. If that's true, then species that cast-spawn will lack
-     this symmetry, and give clues about how to remove it in
-     humans. If even cast spawners like sea urchins have it, then that
-     means there's something deeper going on!
+ - butterfly drone :: if big butterflies used to exist, then maybe we
+      could make butterfly-inspired drones!
 
-- reverse cannulation perfusion :: you put the organ you want to
-     perfuse in an airtight chamber with a pool of the stuff you want
-     to perfuse. You cannulate some veins and lead tubes form to
-     outside of the chamber. You pump in air and perfusate, and the
-     increasing air pressure in the chamber forces perfusate through
-     the organ. For times when you don't want to cannulate the inputs
-     -- they can be ragged, or there can be many of them. You still
-     have to guide the veins to the outside of the chamber, but
-     depending on the use case this might be far easier than
-     tradational cannulation. 
+ - methylation sex symmetry breaking :: So, human cells have
+      methylation patterns that encode male/female origin. If you
+      combine two male patterns, the fetus grows "too fast" and
+      dies. Two female patterns causes the fetus to enter a "vegatable"
+      state and fail to develop. Evolutionary biologists will say that
+      this reflects the asymmetry of energy investement for creating
+      offspring. If that's true, then species that cast-spawn will lack
+      this symmetry, and give clues about how to remove it in
+      humans. If even cast spawners like sea urchins have it, then that
+      means there's something deeper going on!
 
-- very slow physiological pressure perfusion :: less extreme example
-     of the "pausing" trick -- just keep the perfusion running and
-     don't put the perfusion target into the liquid as deep.
+ - reverse cannulation perfusion :: you put the organ you want to
+      perfuse in an airtight chamber with a pool of the stuff you want
+      to perfuse. You cannulate some veins and lead tubes form to
+      outside of the chamber. You pump in air and perfusate, and the
+      increasing air pressure in the chamber forces perfusate through
+      the organ. For times when you don't want to cannulate the inputs
+      -- they can be ragged, or there can be many of them. You still
+      have to guide the veins to the outside of the chamber, but
+      depending on the use case this might be far easier than
+      tradational cannulation. 
 
-- whole brain perfusion embedding :: Do the standard EM embedding
-     protocol, but skip the osmium step, and use the "perfusion
-     pausing" method to prevent overextraction during the dehydration
-     and embedding steps. I think that you CAN perfuse resins into the
-     brain, simply because you CAN perfuse viscous rubber when doing
-     vascular casts.
+ - very slow physiological pressure perfusion :: less extreme example
+      of the "pausing" trick -- just keep the perfusion running and
+      don't put the perfusion target into the liquid as deep.
 
-- perfusion pausing :: (Turns out this won't actually work!) One
-     problem with doing perfusion is that if you STOP the perfusion,
-     you rapidly loose pressure in the organ as your perfusate leaks
-     out. You can prevent this by submerging the organ/head/rat
-     whatever in FLUID at the appropriate level. Use something inert
-     like flurocarbon to avoid problems. You would have to slowly
-     decrease the flow rate while simultaneously lowering the
-     perfusing object into the fluid. To start again, reverse the
-     process -- reengage the peristaltic pump slowly while removing
-     the organ from the fluid.
+ - whole brain perfusion embedding :: Do the standard EM embedding
+      protocol, but skip the osmium step, and use the "perfusion
+      pausing" method to prevent overextraction during the dehydration
+      and embedding steps. I think that you CAN perfuse resins into the
+      brain, simply because you CAN perfuse viscous rubber when doing
+      vascular casts.
 
-- evoultionary textbook mimiricy :: as surgery becomes more common,
-     there develops a distinct selective pressure for individuals
-     organ layout to look more like the medical textbooks! :P
+ - perfusion pausing :: (Turns out this won't actually work!) One
+      problem with doing perfusion is that if you STOP the perfusion,
+      you rapidly loose pressure in the organ as your perfusate leaks
+      out. You can prevent this by submerging the organ/head/rat
+      whatever in FLUID at the appropriate level. Use something inert
+      like flurocarbon to avoid problems. You would have to slowly
+      decrease the flow rate while simultaneously lowering the
+      perfusing object into the fluid. To start again, reverse the
+      process -- reengage the peristaltic pump slowly while removing
+      the organ from the fluid.
 
-- transparent skin :: temporary / permament transparent skin. Allows
-     for examination of organs / muscles and visual prevention of
-     disease and detection or abnormalities / good things
-     eg. excercise. 
+ - evoultionary textbook mimiricy :: as surgery becomes more common,
+      there develops a distinct selective pressure for individuals
+      organ layout to look more like the medical textbooks! :P
 
-- sweet information :: candy with a whole book written in it. Eat a
-     book! 
+ - transparent skin :: temporary / permament transparent skin. Allows
+      for examination of organs / muscles and visual prevention of
+      disease and detection or abnormalities / good things
+      eg. excercise. 
 
-- targeted immunosuppressant :: just kill off the B-cells and friends
-     that would cause problems in a organ-transplant / other
-     situation. AIDS is good at killing these cells -- maybe make it
-     just target the ones that will cause problems. Then you can
-     premptively kill off that part of someone's immune system before
-     a transplant. ALSO, you can kill off everyone's defenses against
-     other blood types and make people effectively type AB+ w.r.t
-     blood transfusions. Actually, why not give babies this treatment
-     so that they're automatically compatable with all blood types?
-     The immune system has this already when it's first growing; maybe
-     it can be "retrained" to accept new things, or the mechanism of
-     immune cell death be co-opted for these purposes.
+ - sweet information :: candy with a whole book written in it. Eat a
+      book! 
 
-- fuck you tetris :: tetris that actively gives you the worst possible piece.
+ - targeted immunosuppressant :: just kill off the B-cells and friends
+      that would cause problems in a organ-transplant / other
+      situation. AIDS is good at killing these cells -- maybe make it
+      just target the ones that will cause problems. Then you can
+      premptively kill off that part of someone's immune system before
+      a transplant. ALSO, you can kill off everyone's defenses against
+      other blood types and make people effectively type AB+ w.r.t
+      blood transfusions. Actually, why not give babies this treatment
+      so that they're automatically compatable with all blood types?
+      The immune system has this already when it's first growing; maybe
+      it can be "retrained" to accept new things, or the mechanism of
+      immune cell death be co-opted for these purposes.
 
-- pockets :: more things should have them!
+ - fuck you tetris :: tetris that actively gives you the worst possible piece.
 
-- colored shower head :: a shower head add on that measures the temp
-     of the water and changes the color of the water streams w/ an LED
-     to show you the temperature. That way you can align to the color
-     you want and see the temperature without feeling it. 
+ - pockets :: more things should have them!
 
-- giant dragonflies :: we could rapidly MAKE giant dragonflies by
-     evolving modern dragonflies in an very oxygen rich environment! 
+ - colored shower head :: a shower head add on that measures the temp
+      of the water and changes the color of the water streams w/ an LED
+      to show you the temperature. That way you can align to the color
+      you want and see the temperature without feeling it. 
 
-- anesthetic surgery courtesty video :: as a matter of courtesy,
-     whenever you go under anesthetic, the doctors should provide you
-     with a video of the surgery / recovery after you are concious
-     again. The recording should begin about 3 minutes before
-     anesthetic, and continue until both you and the docor agree to
-     stop recording, or you leave the hospital.
+ - giant dragonflies :: we could rapidly MAKE giant dragonflies by
+      evolving modern dragonflies in an very oxygen rich environment! 
 
-- whirlpool of light :: shine a laser out into space. But the planet
-     is spinning! What you get is a spiral or light! And as this
-     signal expands, does it eventually reveal it's wuantized nature?
+ - anesthetic surgery courtesty video :: as a matter of courtesy,
+      whenever you go under anesthetic, the doctors should provide you
+      with a video of the surgery / recovery after you are concious
+      again. The recording should begin about 3 minutes before
+      anesthetic, and continue until both you and the docor agree to
+      stop recording, or you leave the hospital.
 
-- perfusion coking :: EOM
+ - whirlpool of light :: shine a laser out into space. But the planet
+      is spinning! What you get is a spiral or light! And as this
+      signal expands, does it eventually reveal it's wuantized nature?
 
-- timestamp verification :: you sign your message, and it has a
-     timestamp at the top, with a +- percision number.  Then you send
-     it over to the public timestamp server, which only signs the
-     message if it gets the message within the timestamp window. Or
-     the computer just signs the message but puts a timestamp at the
-     beginning. So if everyone trusts the timestamp server, you can
-     get reliable timestamps, and prove priority on ideas, etc.
+ - perfusion coking :: EOM
 
-- the great computing slow-down :: in general, our computers are
-     getting faster and faster. However, eventually our brains will be
-     made of the same stuff our computers are made of! This has very
-     interesting consequences -- I can add 2+2 and get four in about a
-     second. Since my neurons actually work at around 10-60 hertz in
-     parallel, this means that it takes me around 10-30 operations to
-     do this addition. That's actually not bad in terms of computing
-     time. If my neurons were as fast as the latest transitors, then
-     most calculators would be SLOWER than me at adding numbers. Only
-     the newest, most optimized calculators would be faster, and then
-     only about 10 times faster! This means that once we begin to
-     think at the speed of our technology, that technology will
-     suddenly seem pitifully slow in comparison to how it seems
-     now. And no amount of technical progress will remedy it, because
-     that same progress will also make us all think faster. We'll
-     either have to settle with living in "slow time" to do some
-     computations, or learn to make smarter hardware with special
-     optimizations. But this is actually really hard, because we'll be
-     working with machines that will appear to us about as fast as
-     MECHANICAL computers. So, in the future, all the cool parties
-     will be in cyperspace at vastly accelerated speeds compared to
-     how we exist now. But at these parties, the computers will SUCK!
-     Of course, this is one of the few things that can save us from AI
-     risk, because those AI's won't seem so scary when the're build
-     out of rickety mechanical parts form our perspective. 
+ - timestamp verification :: you sign your message, and it has a
+      timestamp at the top, with a +- percision number.  Then you send
+      it over to the public timestamp server, which only signs the
+      message if it gets the message within the timestamp window. Or
+      the computer just signs the message but puts a timestamp at the
+      beginning. So if everyone trusts the timestamp server, you can
+      get reliable timestamps, and prove priority on ideas, etc.
 
-- unitary reverse evolution of chaos+minds :: Chaotic systems diverge
-     exponentially in state space. Do you get anything interesting
-     when part of the physical system associated with the chaotic
-     system is a object that performs some sort of computation? Is it
-     possible for the computational system to play a
-     percision-enabling role in determining the final/initial
-     conditions of the chaotic system, just by tracing out thoughts in
-     its decision paths? This is probably too vague of an idea right
-     now, I just wanted to write it down.
+ - the great computing slow-down :: in general, our computers are
+      getting faster and faster. However, eventually our brains will be
+      made of the same stuff our computers are made of! This has very
+      interesting consequences -- I can add 2+2 and get four in about a
+      second. Since my neurons actually work at around 10-60 hertz in
+      parallel, this means that it takes me around 10-30 operations to
+      do this addition. That's actually not bad in terms of computing
+      time. If my neurons were as fast as the latest transitors, then
+      most calculators would be SLOWER than me at adding numbers. Only
+      the newest, most optimized calculators would be faster, and then
+      only about 10 times faster! This means that once we begin to
+      think at the speed of our technology, that technology will
+      suddenly seem pitifully slow in comparison to how it seems
+      now. And no amount of technical progress will remedy it, because
+      that same progress will also make us all think faster. We'll
+      either have to settle with living in "slow time" to do some
+      computations, or learn to make smarter hardware with special
+      optimizations. But this is actually really hard, because we'll be
+      working with machines that will appear to us about as fast as
+      MECHANICAL computers. So, in the future, all the cool parties
+      will be in cyperspace at vastly accelerated speeds compared to
+      how we exist now. But at these parties, the computers will SUCK!
+      Of course, this is one of the few things that can save us from AI
+      risk, because those AI's won't seem so scary when the're build
+      out of rickety mechanical parts form our perspective. 
 
-- microwave time :: the cooking time you enter on most microwaves is
-     insane. It's expressed in what I call a "hybrid base", a
-     combination of base 10 and base 60. You can get absurd things
-     like 100 < 61, and 120 == 80! I wonder if these hybrid base
-     systems could be very useful for some purposes!
+ - unitary reverse evolution of chaos+minds :: Chaotic systems diverge
+      exponentially in state space. Do you get anything interesting
+      when part of the physical system associated with the chaotic
+      system is a object that performs some sort of computation? Is it
+      possible for the computational system to play a
+      percision-enabling role in determining the final/initial
+      conditions of the chaotic system, just by tracing out thoughts in
+      its decision paths? This is probably too vague of an idea right
+      now, I just wanted to write it down.
 
-- three-eyes :: if you had three eyes, would you still draw cubes like
-     we currently draw them? Or would all 2D-representations of 3D
-     space always look hopelessly fake?
+ - microwave time :: the cooking time you enter on most microwaves is
+      insane. It's expressed in what I call a "hybrid base", a
+      combination of base 10 and base 60. You can get absurd things
+      like 100 < 61, and 120 == 80! I wonder if these hybrid base
+      systems could be very useful for some purposes!
 
-- visual taste/smell assay :: get a grid of bacteria, each expressing
-     a human taste/smell receptor linked to some sort of fluorscent
-     activity or ion pump. Use a camera / electrical grid to transduce
-     the smell / taste signal into bits!
+ - three-eyes :: if you had three eyes, would you still draw cubes like
+      we currently draw them? Or would all 2D-representations of 3D
+      space always look hopelessly fake?
 
-- carabiner mushroom lock :: you can take a trapazodial carabiner and
-     make it so that a chain link is caught between the wide end of
-     the carabiner and another chain attached to the carabiner. 
+ - visual taste/smell assay :: get a grid of bacteria, each expressing
+      a human taste/smell receptor linked to some sort of fluorscent
+      activity or ion pump. Use a camera / electrical grid to transduce
+      the smell / taste signal into bits!
 
-- children's tool shop :: I think that kids should be provided with
-     tool shops -- these would be nice sheds with a good collection of
-     tools to do various things -- circuit components and soldering
-     irons, wires, a small lathe, drill press, belt sander, a
-     centrifuge, microscope, and telescope, etc. The idea is that the
-     kid can now think, "I could use X to do this thing that I'm
-     thinking about" -- the building becomes an extension of the kid's
-     body & mind.
+ - carabiner mushroom lock :: you can take a trapazodial carabiner and
+      make it so that a chain link is caught between the wide end of
+      the carabiner and another chain attached to the carabiner. 
 
-- fluid display :: like the previous idea about matching refractances
-                   between glass and liquid, except you make a lot of
-                   switchable glass tubes in various patterns in the
-                   glass, and actively pump colored liquid through the
-                   tubes (the tubes have glass-like fluid in them by
-                   default.) The result is that you can cause the
-                   tubes to appear and dissappear, and vary their
-                   colors as well!
+ - children's tool shop :: I think that kids should be provided with
+      tool shops -- these would be nice sheds with a good collection of
+      tools to do various things -- circuit components and soldering
+      irons, wires, a small lathe, drill press, belt sander, a
+      centrifuge, microscope, and telescope, etc. The idea is that the
+      kid can now think, "I could use X to do this thing that I'm
+      thinking about" -- the building becomes an extension of the kid's
+      body & mind.
 
-- immunoincompatibility :: take the human genome, and refactor it so
-     that it doesn't use a particular codon at all. Then remove the
-     support from our ribosomes for that codon. What does this do for
-     us? It makes us immune to almost all viruses!
+ - fluid display :: like the previous idea about matching refractances
+                    between glass and liquid, except you make a lot of
+                    switchable glass tubes in various patterns in the
+                    glass, and actively pump colored liquid through the
+                    tubes (the tubes have glass-like fluid in them by
+                    default.) The result is that you can cause the
+                    tubes to appear and dissappear, and vary their
+                    colors as well!
 
-- life cycle :: it's called a cycle, right? So, the thing that repeats
-                itself over and over, right? Not much of a cycle if
-                you don't come back after you die, if you ask me!
+ - immunoincompatibility :: take the human genome, and refactor it so
+      that it doesn't use a particular codon at all. Then remove the
+      support from our ribosomes for that codon. What does this do for
+      us? It makes us immune to almost all viruses!
 
-- car with no blind spots :: use some cameras in the back of the car
-     to augment the rear-view mirror so that you never have to turn
-     around in order to lane change.
+ - life cycle :: it's called a cycle, right? So, the thing that repeats
+                 itself over and over, right? Not much of a cycle if
+                 you don't come back after you die, if you ask me!
 
-- partial cell death :: you freeze a set of cells using some cryo
-     protocol and 60% survive. How can this be explained? It seems to
-     me that if the cells are the same, and the conditions
-     homogoneous, then all the cells should either die or
-     live. However, suppose that there is a metabolic cycle that needs
-     to be in a certain phase for the cell to survive. If the cells
-     are asynchronous, then you might end up with some cells dying
-     because there were in the wrong part of their cycle. This implies
-     that you might be able to cryoprotect cells by causing them to
-     enter a certain metabolic mode before freezing.
+ - car with no blind spots :: use some cameras in the back of the car
+      to augment the rear-view mirror so that you never have to turn
+      around in order to lane change.
 
-- cryonics color appeal :: perfusate used by cryonics companies should
-     have red food coloring in it. It's just a nice touch so that the
-     cryonics patient looks more life-like than with clear CPAs, and
-     hopefully might get treated with more respect.
+ - partial cell death :: you freeze a set of cells using some cryo
+      protocol and 60% survive. How can this be explained? It seems to
+      me that if the cells are the same, and the conditions
+      homogoneous, then all the cells should either die or
+      live. However, suppose that there is a metabolic cycle that needs
+      to be in a certain phase for the cell to survive. If the cells
+      are asynchronous, then you might end up with some cells dying
+      because there were in the wrong part of their cycle. This implies
+      that you might be able to cryoprotect cells by causing them to
+      enter a certain metabolic mode before freezing.
 
-- paramagnetic CPA :: you take a CPA that can be influenced by
-     magnetic fields so that its degrees of freedom are limited. Then,
-     you release the field, instantaly increasing the size of the
-     state space of the system and dramatically decreasing the
-     temperature enough to plunge the system past homogenous
-     nucleation temperature and directly to the glass transition
-     temperature, creating a doubly unstable glass at much lower CPA
-     concentrations than possible at conventional CPA concentrations. 
+ - cryonics color appeal :: perfusate used by cryonics companies should
+      have red food coloring in it. It's just a nice touch so that the
+      cryonics patient looks more life-like than with clear CPAs, and
+      hopefully might get treated with more respect.
 
-- room temp noodles :: how does the physics of cooking noodles work?
-     Could you use a vacuum instead of heat to force water into the
-     noodle?
+ - paramagnetic CPA :: you take a CPA that can be influenced by
+      magnetic fields so that its degrees of freedom are limited. Then,
+      you release the field, instantaly increasing the size of the
+      state space of the system and dramatically decreasing the
+      temperature enough to plunge the system past homogenous
+      nucleation temperature and directly to the glass transition
+      temperature, creating a doubly unstable glass at much lower CPA
+      concentrations than possible at conventional CPA concentrations. 
 
-- personal carbon offset :: feel bad about contribuiting to global
-     warming by using electricity / driving a car? Forget trying to
-     "conserve" or "minimize your carbon footprint". Follow the
-     Platinum rule -- make the world BETTER off than you found it!
-     This would be a small, self contained system that sucks C02 out
-     of the air. It uses electricity, but it's so efficient at
-     removing CO2 that it more than offsets the CO2 produced by even a
-     coal plant to produce that electricity. This way, you can still
-     drive even a gas guzzler, but have a net negative carbon
-     footprint! Maybe something cool could be done with the carbon as
-     well. Use as much electricity as you want, but negate the damage
-     to the enviroment with more technology. 
+ - room temp noodles :: how does the physics of cooking noodles work?
+      Could you use a vacuum instead of heat to force water into the
+      noodle?
 
-- undoing spermogenesis :: with enough sperm, you can derive the
-     donor's entire genome. You gain more confidence in the alleles
-     for a particular gene the more sperm you have. Each additional
-     sperm gives you the same sort of information you'd get flipping a
-     coin and trying to decide whether the coin is H/T of H/H. Is
-     there enough sperm in the the average load for you to be as
-     confident as mitosis?
+ - personal carbon offset :: feel bad about contribuiting to global
+      warming by using electricity / driving a car? Forget trying to
+      "conserve" or "minimize your carbon footprint". Follow the
+      Platinum rule -- make the world BETTER off than you found it!
+      This would be a small, self contained system that sucks C02 out
+      of the air. It uses electricity, but it's so efficient at
+      removing CO2 that it more than offsets the CO2 produced by even a
+      coal plant to produce that electricity. This way, you can still
+      drive even a gas guzzler, but have a net negative carbon
+      footprint! Maybe something cool could be done with the carbon as
+      well. Use as much electricity as you want, but negate the damage
+      to the enviroment with more technology. 
 
-- mars life :: we could engineer life that could survive on mars
-               (probably some non-vascular photosynthetic
-               poikilohydric creature like a lichen) by taking an
-               extremophile from Antarctica and evolving it in
-               increasingly Martian conditions. This could be an easy
-               start to a terraforming process. 
+ - undoing spermogenesis :: with enough sperm, you can derive the
+      donor's entire genome. You gain more confidence in the alleles
+      for a particular gene the more sperm you have. Each additional
+      sperm gives you the same sort of information you'd get flipping a
+      coin and trying to decide whether the coin is H/T of H/H. Is
+      there enough sperm in the the average load for you to be as
+      confident as mitosis?
 
-- problem with Aubrey de Grey's ideas :: Aubrey de Grey says that we
-     might be able to live forever by continually repairing our bodies
-     at the cellular level -- he details 7 different mechanisms of
-     damage and says that if all of them are dealt with /together/
-     that it would stop aging. (You can't miss even one because
-     they're all fatal.)  However, it doesn't take into account that
-     we are also beings of information and that there is a very real
-     software component to our existence. Even if our biological
-     chassies can be maintained forever, I think it is unlikely that
-     our minds will operate well far outside of the design constraints
-     that we've evolved to handle. Say I programmed a webserver with
-     the express goal of it being able to serve webpages for month on
-     some stock server. I'll do fairly rigorous testing to make sure
-     that it can handle the expected load then then some. Now say that
-     you want to keep a particular instance of this webserver running
-     indefinitely. (The program instance is like your mind and the
-     computer it's running on is like your body). You might very well
-     be able to keep the physical computer infrastructure running for
-     forever by replacing hard drives / ram / CPUs, etc. However,
-     since I designed the webserver to work for a month, it probably
-     has memory leaks, rare stochastic bugs, or other built in limits
-     / constraints (think log files or some date rollover shenanigans)
-     that will ultimately kill the webserver even with eternally
-     perfect hardware. Do you really expect that a webserver
-     engineered to work for 1 month will run for 10 years without
-     catastrophically crashing? Not even Apache can do this! In fact,
-     if I put in the extreme effort to make it that robust, I've
-     wasted time that I could have spent on other projects by pursuing
-     an unnecessary engineering goal. Likewise, human minds have only
-     ever run for at most 122 years before they are destroyed due to
-     hardware degradation. Fixing the hardware doesn't change any
-     software bugs that are almost certainly present in the human
-     mind. Think of all the pathological things that can go wrong with
-     a webserver, multiply it by a million, and that likely how
-     evolution has designed our minds. For example, consider memory :
-     why should you expect that we have evolved the ability to
-     coherently organize memories past say 150 years? There's been
-     absolutely no selective pressure for this ability, so you can bet
-     that if there's any fitness to be gained from not having
-     unlimited memory potential (such as better metabolic efficiency),
-     we have it! You might think that maybe we would just forget
-     things the same way that we sort of forget things that happen
-     earlier in our lives, but complicated information processing
-     systems don't have to fail gracefully when they're pushed far
-     past their design constraints. A 150 year old person is just as
-     likely to suffer a catastrophic psychosis due to software
-     limitations associated with memory as he is to do something with
-     all those memories we might consider reasonable. More likely, in
-     fact, since there are so very many ways for a complicated
-     software system to break and so few ways for it to run
-     successfully. Therefore, I think Aubrey de Grey's "hardware-only"
-     approach is missing a very important component of longevity
-     science, and any successful effort to make people live orders of
-     magnitude longer than they do naturally will need to deal with
-     people's software as well as their hardware.
+ - mars life :: we could engineer life that could survive on mars
+		(probably some non-vascular photosynthetic
+		poikilohydric creature like a lichen) by taking an
+		extremophile from Antarctica and evolving it in
+		increasingly Martian conditions. This could be an easy
+		start to a terraforming process. 
 
-- validating neurocryopreservation :: Problem : you want to test
-     whether a brain is functionally preserved through vitrification,
-     but you don't want to figure out how to preserve all the other
-     organs in the animal. It might be possible to keep the rest of
-     the body at almost 0C and vitrify just the head for only a few
-     minutes. Induce hypothermia, then separate out the head's blood
-     supply from the rest of the body, then just cryoptotect and
-     vitrify the head. Might need some sort of thermal guard to keep
-     the outer head / neck from becoming too cold. You leave the
-     spinal cord intact! Then you devitrify to 0C, remove
-     cryoprotectant, and then reattach the blood supply. You can
-     determine brain preservation using behavioral assays!
+ - problem with Aubrey de Grey's ideas :: Aubrey de Grey says that we
+      might be able to live forever by continually repairing our bodies
+      at the cellular level -- he details 7 different mechanisms of
+      damage and says that if all of them are dealt with /together/
+      that it would stop aging. (You can't miss even one because
+      they're all fatal.)  However, it doesn't take into account that
+      we are also beings of information and that there is a very real
+      software component to our existence. Even if our biological
+      chassies can be maintained forever, I think it is unlikely that
+      our minds will operate well far outside of the design constraints
+      that we've evolved to handle. Say I programmed a webserver with
+      the express goal of it being able to serve webpages for month on
+      some stock server. I'll do fairly rigorous testing to make sure
+      that it can handle the expected load then then some. Now say that
+      you want to keep a particular instance of this webserver running
+      indefinitely. (The program instance is like your mind and the
+      computer it's running on is like your body). You might very well
+      be able to keep the physical computer infrastructure running for
+      forever by replacing hard drives / ram / CPUs, etc. However,
+      since I designed the webserver to work for a month, it probably
+      has memory leaks, rare stochastic bugs, or other built in limits
+      / constraints (think log files or some date rollover shenanigans)
+      that will ultimately kill the webserver even with eternally
+      perfect hardware. Do you really expect that a webserver
+      engineered to work for 1 month will run for 10 years without
+      catastrophically crashing? Not even Apache can do this! In fact,
+      if I put in the extreme effort to make it that robust, I've
+      wasted time that I could have spent on other projects by pursuing
+      an unnecessary engineering goal. Likewise, human minds have only
+      ever run for at most 122 years before they are destroyed due to
+      hardware degradation. Fixing the hardware doesn't change any
+      software bugs that are almost certainly present in the human
+      mind. Think of all the pathological things that can go wrong with
+      a webserver, multiply it by a million, and that likely how
+      evolution has designed our minds. For example, consider memory :
+      why should you expect that we have evolved the ability to
+      coherently organize memories past say 150 years? There's been
+      absolutely no selective pressure for this ability, so you can bet
+      that if there's any fitness to be gained from not having
+      unlimited memory potential (such as better metabolic efficiency),
+      we have it! You might think that maybe we would just forget
+      things the same way that we sort of forget things that happen
+      earlier in our lives, but complicated information processing
+      systems don't have to fail gracefully when they're pushed far
+      past their design constraints. A 150 year old person is just as
+      likely to suffer a catastrophic psychosis due to software
+      limitations associated with memory as he is to do something with
+      all those memories we might consider reasonable. More likely, in
+      fact, since there are so very many ways for a complicated
+      software system to break and so few ways for it to run
+      successfully. Therefore, I think Aubrey de Grey's "hardware-only"
+      approach is missing a very important component of longevity
+      science, and any successful effort to make people live orders of
+      magnitude longer than they do naturally will need to deal with
+      people's software as well as their hardware.
 
-- freezing water purifier :: you slowly freeze water, but also run
-     liquid water over the frozen mass. This takes away basically all
-     impurities and creates "washed ice" then you melt the ice. Maybe
-     you could re-use the heat from creating the ice to melt the ice?
+ - validating neurocryopreservation :: Problem : you want to test
+      whether a brain is functionally preserved through vitrification,
+      but you don't want to figure out how to preserve all the other
+      organs in the animal. It might be possible to keep the rest of
+      the body at almost 0C and vitrify just the head for only a few
+      minutes. Induce hypothermia, then separate out the head's blood
+      supply from the rest of the body, then just cryoptotect and
+      vitrify the head. Might need some sort of thermal guard to keep
+      the outer head / neck from becoming too cold. You leave the
+      spinal cord intact! Then you devitrify to 0C, remove
+      cryoprotectant, and then reattach the blood supply. You can
+      determine brain preservation using behavioral assays!
 
-- ultra strength :: allow a person to visualize their muscle
-                    recruitment patterns. Give them adrenaline and let
-                    them feel what it's like to have the normal limits
-                    removed. See if they can replicate the effects.
+ - freezing water purifier :: you slowly freeze water, but also run
+      liquid water over the frozen mass. This takes away basically all
+      impurities and creates "washed ice" then you melt the ice. Maybe
+      you could re-use the heat from creating the ice to melt the ice?
 
-- phone names :: make a PX record for domain names that's like the MX
-                 record, except that it is a phone number instead of
-                 an IP address. That way, you can use the domain name
-                 registration system to provide names for phone
-                 numbers. Then, as long as you control the domain, you
-                 can point people to your current phone number by
-                 updating that record. 
+ - ultra strength :: allow a person to visualize their muscle
+                     recruitment patterns. Give them adrenaline and let
+                     them feel what it's like to have the normal limits
+                     removed. See if they can replicate the effects.
 
-- edible flowers :: Edible white flowers that you put in a colored
-                    solution with flavor. When the flower turns the
-                    right color, it is also flavored and ready to eat! 
+ - phone names :: make a PX record for domain names that's like the MX
+                  record, except that it is a phone number instead of
+                  an IP address. That way, you can use the domain name
+                  registration system to provide names for phone
+                  numbers. Then, as long as you control the domain, you
+                  can point people to your current phone number by
+                  updating that record. 
 
-- suicide cryonics :: according to [[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/magazine/06suicide-t.html][this]], people who commit impulsive
-     suicides have a newfound sense of the importance of life. Perhaps
-     they are good cryonics targets.
+ - edible flowers :: Edible white flowers that you put in a colored
+                     solution with flavor. When the flower turns the
+                     right color, it is also flavored and ready to eat! 
 
-- lead bone :: Could you fill in all the empty spaces in a bone with
-               lead? Might be cool.
+ - suicide cryonics :: according to [[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/magazine/06suicide-t.html][this]], people who commit impulsive
+      suicides have a newfound sense of the importance of life. Perhaps
+      they are good cryonics targets.
 
-- the quest for life  :: Every stupid story has the "immortal who
-     wants to become mortal" or some other such idea. I want to story
-     where the protagonist loses their immortality and feels /angry/
-     and ashamed about losing something that's so absolutely crucial
-     to their identity. A reverse of "death makes life worth living",
-     they feel that living forever is what makes life worth
-     living. Now they've "lost their sunrise" or their "connection to
-     the timeless universe" or something. So they go on a quest to get
-     it back, learning about themselves along the way, and regaining
-     the precious thing they lost in the beginning.
+ - lead bone :: Could you fill in all the empty spaces in a bone with
+		lead? Might be cool.
 
-- world-map :: take a small table and paint the continents in
-               toothpaste on the table. Make a slightly raised barrier
-               around the table. Slowly pour water onto the table, and
-               it will form the oceans!
+ - the quest for life  :: Every stupid story has the "immortal who
+      wants to become mortal" or some other such idea. I want to story
+      where the protagonist loses their immortality and feels /angry/
+      and ashamed about losing something that's so absolutely crucial
+      to their identity. A reverse of "death makes life worth living",
+      they feel that living forever is what makes life worth
+      living. Now they've "lost their sunrise" or their "connection to
+      the timeless universe" or something. So they go on a quest to get
+      it back, learning about themselves along the way, and regaining
+      the precious thing they lost in the beginning.
 
-- stage magic rituals :: rituals should incorporate elements of stage
-     magic. Foe example in Teller's tempest, they have a scene where
-     they levitate a crown in front of someone, then put it on his
-     head. They also have a wedding ceremony where they levitated the
-     bride as well. Actual weddings and other ceremonies should
-     incorporate stage magic as an enhancement. 
+ - world-map :: take a small table and paint the continents in
+		toothpaste on the table. Make a slightly raised barrier
+		around the table. Slowly pour water onto the table, and
+		it will form the oceans!
 
-- isotope time dilation :: use a cyclotron to speed up rare isotopes
-     developed in nuclear fusion experiments. The relativistic time
-     dilation will stop the isotopes from decaying, and allow time to
-     study them. This is based on radioactive isotopes that fall
-     through the earth's atmosphere that take hundreds of times
-     longer to decay than normal.
+ - stage magic rituals :: rituals should incorporate elements of stage
+      magic. Foe example in Teller's tempest, they have a scene where
+      they levitate a crown in front of someone, then put it on his
+      head. They also have a wedding ceremony where they levitated the
+      bride as well. Actual weddings and other ceremonies should
+      incorporate stage magic as an enhancement. 
 
-- marsupial stimulation :: You take a freshly pouched marsupial baby,
-     and show it videos and other interactive things while it matures
-     in the pouch. What mental effects would this have?
+ - isotope time dilation :: use a cyclotron to speed up rare isotopes
+      developed in nuclear fusion experiments. The relativistic time
+      dilation will stop the isotopes from decaying, and allow time to
+      study them. This is based on radioactive isotopes that fall
+      through the earth's atmosphere that take hundreds of times
+      longer to decay than normal.
 
-- dynamic re-keying :: Some older ways of tuning instruments sound
-     better, but we use the even-tempered scale today because it makes
-     it easier to switch keys. With electronic music, why not make
-     key-annotations and dynamically re-tune the piece to sound good
-     in the current key? Could be done as a midi+annotation -> midi
-     compiler for experimentation.
+ - marsupial stimulation :: You take a freshly pouched marsupial baby,
+      and show it videos and other interactive things while it matures
+      in the pouch. What mental effects would this have?
 
-- death always implies damage :: is is possible for a corpse to differ
-     from a living person only in the fact that one is dead and the
-     other is alive? NO! A corpse must always have some sort of
-     molecular damage which causes the loss of function!
+ - dynamic re-keying :: Some older ways of tuning instruments sound
+      better, but we use the even-tempered scale today because it makes
+      it easier to switch keys. With electronic music, why not make
+      key-annotations and dynamically re-tune the piece to sound good
+      in the current key? Could be done as a midi+annotation -> midi
+      compiler for experimentation.
 
-- inner eye :: Surgically install a bunch of tiny cameras inside a
-               person. Then, you can activate them all and get a
-               picture of your internal organs for diagnostic
-               purposes. 
+ - death always implies damage :: is is possible for a corpse to differ
+      from a living person only in the fact that one is dead and the
+      other is alive? NO! A corpse must always have some sort of
+      molecular damage which causes the loss of function!
 
-- chaos rails :: should make a visualization of the homoclinic tangle,
-                 it's truly beautiful.
+ - inner eye :: Surgically install a bunch of tiny cameras inside a
+		person. Then, you can activate them all and get a
+		picture of your internal organs for diagnostic
+		purposes. 
 
-- context gobbler :: this would be in "inside-out macro" that takes
-     the context (like you use for things like error, continuations,
-     and friends) and transforms it to something else. Maybe useful?
+ - chaos rails :: should make a visualization of the homoclinic tangle,
+                  it's truly beautiful.
 
-- cryonics middle ages :: some people say that cryonics is an
-     experiment and that it is foolish to wait until we have revived a
-     human. There is a middle ground where the procedure has a dismal
-     success rate on humans, say 1 in 20, so that you'd be a fool to
-     try revival. Nonetheless, this very risky procedure could be the
-     legal proof of concept needed to create a new class of life
-     between "living" and "dead": "stasis".
+ - context gobbler :: this would be in "inside-out macro" that takes
+      the context (like you use for things like error, continuations,
+      and friends) and transforms it to something else. Maybe useful?
 
-- philosophy of the mirror :: neat thought experiment -- if you take a
-     mirror of someone by actually reversing a person's chirality
-     molecule by molecule, then will the only be able to read mirror
-     writing? The answer is yes, by analogy to a purely mechanical
-     scan-tron device. This is one of the only interesting transforms I
-     know that can take a human brain and change it in subtle,
-     non-destructive ways. It's also an argument against dualism.
+ - cryonics middle ages :: some people say that cryonics is an
+      experiment and that it is foolish to wait until we have revived a
+      human. There is a middle ground where the procedure has a dismal
+      success rate on humans, say 1 in 20, so that you'd be a fool to
+      try revival. Nonetheless, this very risky procedure could be the
+      legal proof of concept needed to create a new class of life
+      between "living" and "dead": "stasis".
 
-- biosphere in a bottle :: There are around 15 million species. 15
-     million stem cells will fill only a tiny size, far less than a cubic
-     inch. Preserve a single cell from every species on earth in this
-     small space, and you will have a record of our current biosphere
-     that can be protected. "Hold the genetic data of all species in
-     your hand!"
+ - philosophy of the mirror :: neat thought experiment -- if you take a
+      mirror of someone by actually reversing a person's chirality
+      molecule by molecule, then will the only be able to read mirror
+      writing? The answer is yes, by analogy to a purely mechanical
+      scan-tron device. This is one of the only interesting transforms I
+      know that can take a human brain and change it in subtle,
+      non-destructive ways. It's also an argument against dualism.
 
-- chaos lock :: The "arrow of time" points in the direction of
-                increasing entropy. The time evolution of chaotic
-                systems depend exquisitely on their initial state. If
-                you take a measurement of a chaotic system at any
-                given point of time, you can evolve that system
-                backwards or forwards based on your measurement. So
-                let's say you start the chaotic system in a VERY low
-                entropy state, then let it run for a while, then take
-                a measurement with some uncertainty. Your
-                measurement is pretty good, but obviously not
-                PERFECT. If you evolve the chaotic system back in
-                time, then you will see that you don't really reach
-                a state with low entropy an hour before (the entropy
-                is easy to measure with surrogates like alignment,
-                etc). So use this technique to SEARCH for a more
-                accurate measurement! This potentially can give you
-                many more orders of magnitude than you could get alone
-                just using an instrument. Sometimes it will give you
-                bad results, the the odds of it doing that are
-                infinitesimal, and you can just measure a couple of
-                times. 
+ - biosphere in a bottle :: There are around 15 million species. 15
+      million stem cells will fill only a tiny size, far less than a cubic
+      inch. Preserve a single cell from every species on earth in this
+      small space, and you will have a record of our current biosphere
+      that can be protected. "Hold the genetic data of all species in
+      your hand!"
 
-- cryo-evolution :: perhaps there would be a way to rapidly evolve a
-                    symbiotic bacterial organism that could protect
-                    human tissues from freezing damage.
+ - chaos lock :: The "arrow of time" points in the direction of
+                 increasing entropy. The time evolution of chaotic
+                 systems depend exquisitely on their initial state. If
+                 you take a measurement of a chaotic system at any
+                 given point of time, you can evolve that system
+                 backwards or forwards based on your measurement. So
+                 let's say you start the chaotic system in a VERY low
+                 entropy state, then let it run for a while, then take
+                 a measurement with some uncertainty. Your
+                 measurement is pretty good, but obviously not
+                 PERFECT. If you evolve the chaotic system back in
+                 time, then you will see that you don't really reach
+                 a state with low entropy an hour before (the entropy
+                 is easy to measure with surrogates like alignment,
+                 etc). So use this technique to SEARCH for a more
+                 accurate measurement! This potentially can give you
+                 many more orders of magnitude than you could get alone
+                 just using an instrument. Sometimes it will give you
+                 bad results, the the odds of it doing that are
+                 infinitesimal, and you can just measure a couple of
+                 times. 
 
-- suicide parasite :: sometimes, people kill themselves for no good
-     reason. We often explain this with things like "hidden
-     depression" or we say that they had something like chronic jaw or
-     back pain. I think that smells of rationalization. I don't buy
-     it. I propose that in many suicide cases there is a disease that
-     causes the suicidal behavior. We already know that certain
-     parasites have mind-bending properties in other animals, even
-     mammals like mice. It's not much of a stretch to imagine a
-     parasite that causes suicides in humans. Some problems:
-     - What does the suicide parasite get out of it? :: This might be
-          answered by the whole thing being a glitch caused by
-          cross-species contamination. Toxoplasma works this way.
-     - What predictions does a disease model make :: suicide should
-          be more common among people who share a contagion
-          vector. There should be suicides that don't make any
-          sense : people who weren't really depressed, who had no
-          reason to kill themselves. People who have killed themselves
-          should have a higher incidence of some unknown parasite in
-          their brains. 
+ - cryo-evolution :: perhaps there would be a way to rapidly evolve a
+                     symbiotic bacterial organism that could protect
+                     human tissues from freezing damage.
 
-- domestic insects :: People should eat more bugs because they're much
-     more efficient, so why not do some major domestication research
-     to make very appealing bugs? Beetles, in particular, seem to be
-     excellent targets for domestication because they have extreme
-     levels of genetic malleability.
+ - suicide parasite :: sometimes, people kill themselves for no good
+      reason. We often explain this with things like "hidden
+      depression" or we say that they had something like chronic jaw or
+      back pain. I think that smells of rationalization. I don't buy
+      it. I propose that in many suicide cases there is a disease that
+      causes the suicidal behavior. We already know that certain
+      parasites have mind-bending properties in other animals, even
+      mammals like mice. It's not much of a stretch to imagine a
+      parasite that causes suicides in humans. Some problems:
+   - What does the suicide parasite get out of it? :: This might be
+        answered by the whole thing being a glitch caused by
+        cross-species contamination. Toxoplasma works this way.
+   - What predictions does a disease model make :: suicide should
+        be more common among people who share a contagion
+        vector. There should be suicides that don't make any
+        sense : people who weren't really depressed, who had no
+        reason to kill themselves. People who have killed themselves
+        should have a higher incidence of some unknown parasite in
+        their brains. 
 
-- birth-clones :: What if each person was intentionally split at birth
-                  into a normal embryo and a few "backup" cells which
-                  is then frozen. The backup cells are created just
-                  the same way as natural identical twins. The backups
-                  can be used to regenerate organs. etc. Also, it
-                  would be a good sci fi concept, because you could
-                  have a culture where people reward people who were
-                  especially awesome are "reborn" from their
-                  backups. Imagine having a young Bach every
-                  generation, etc.
+ - domestic insects :: People should eat more bugs because they're much
+      more efficient, so why not do some major domestication research
+      to make very appealing bugs? Beetles, in particular, seem to be
+      excellent targets for domestication because they have extreme
+      levels of genetic malleability.
 
-- pronunciation guide :: a simple webpage where you type in a word and
-     it returns a simple, English sentence describing exactly how to
-     pronounce the word. For people who don't want to learn IPA. 
+ - birth-clones :: What if each person was intentionally split at birth
+                   into a normal embryo and a few "backup" cells which
+                   is then frozen. The backup cells are created just
+                   the same way as natural identical twins. The backups
+                   can be used to regenerate organs. etc. Also, it
+                   would be a good sci fi concept, because you could
+                   have a culture where people reward people who were
+                   especially awesome are "reborn" from their
+                   backups. Imagine having a young Bach every
+                   generation, etc.
 
-- cortex-search :: use the repertoire of actions learned to limit the
-                   search space of possible actions.
+ - pronunciation guide :: a simple webpage where you type in a word and
+      it returns a simple, English sentence describing exactly how to
+      pronounce the word. For people who don't want to learn IPA. 
 
-- learning to teleport :: scifi idea, this is a story about a person
-     who is struggling with his/her society's ideas about
-     teleportation. It's considered a fundamental part of being a
-     member of that society (after all, the difference between animals
-     and humans is that humans are creatures of pure information while
-     animals are burdened with base matter, "that's how you travel the
-     stars, etc") Humans are born normally, grow up, and then
-     eventually transcend via destructive upload. Analogies to jumping
-     off a diving board into a pool (which I simply /could not do/ for
-     a long time), etc.     
+ - cortex-search :: use the repertoire of actions learned to limit the
+                    search space of possible actions.
 
-- no-float-ice :: cup that has cross beams at the bottom where ice
-                  forms. Then when you drink liquid from the glass,
-                  the ice stays at the bottom and doesn't hit your
-                  lips. For bars and fancy things.
+ - learning to teleport :: scifi idea, this is a story about a person
+      who is struggling with his/her society's ideas about
+      teleportation. It's considered a fundamental part of being a
+      member of that society (after all, the difference between animals
+      and humans is that humans are creatures of pure information while
+      animals are burdened with base matter, "that's how you travel the
+      stars, etc") Humans are born normally, grow up, and then
+      eventually transcend via destructive upload. Analogies to jumping
+      off a diving board into a pool (which I simply /could not do/ for
+      a long time), etc.     
 
-- bitcoins for immigrants :: A common case with Mexican immigrants
-     (illegal or not) is that they want to send money they've earned
-     in the US back to their families in Mexico. They currently do this
-     through things like Money Gram or Western Union, and they get
-     fleeced in the process with fees. Bitcoin could greatly reduce
-     the cost of sending money from America to Mexico, but I don't
-     believe that it's currently used for that among Mexican
-     immigrants currently due to lack of knowledge. I bet you could
-     set up physical locations like those obnoxious Western Union huts
-     in places like Texas, Arizona, etc, and greatly undercut
-     them. Or, perhaps some educational seminars about bitcoin might
-     be in order. There's some money to be made there because there is
-     great demand, and it's a good thing to boot!
+ - no-float-ice :: cup that has cross beams at the bottom where ice
+                   forms. Then when you drink liquid from the glass,
+                   the ice stays at the bottom and doesn't hit your
+                   lips. For bars and fancy things.
 
-- reverse eye-tracking :: A painting that is actually a digital screen
-     with a camera. It records people's eye tracks permanently. It's
-     "artistic" because paintings are normally these things that you
-     look at without changing, but this one is changed the second you
-     look at it, recording where /you/ looked forever for others to
-     see. Make it be a painting of a woman and see the trolling as the
-     breasts and groin area light up with interest from all the males
-     passing by.
+ - bitcoins for immigrants :: A common case with Mexican immigrants
+      (illegal or not) is that they want to send money they've earned
+      in the US back to their families in Mexico. They currently do this
+      through things like Money Gram or Western Union, and they get
+      fleeced in the process with fees. Bitcoin could greatly reduce
+      the cost of sending money from America to Mexico, but I don't
+      believe that it's currently used for that among Mexican
+      immigrants currently due to lack of knowledge. I bet you could
+      set up physical locations like those obnoxious Western Union huts
+      in places like Texas, Arizona, etc, and greatly undercut
+      them. Or, perhaps some educational seminars about bitcoin might
+      be in order. There's some money to be made there because there is
+      great demand, and it's a good thing to boot!
 
-- smart toilets :: Instead of using indirect measures like infrared
-                   detectors of the presence of a person, use computer
-                   vision to directly measure whether the toilet needs
-                   to be flushed. I think a lot of things will end up
-                   going this way as we get better computer vision.
+ - reverse eye-tracking :: A painting that is actually a digital screen
+      with a camera. It records people's eye tracks permanently. It's
+      "artistic" because paintings are normally these things that you
+      look at without changing, but this one is changed the second you
+      look at it, recording where /you/ looked forever for others to
+      see. Make it be a painting of a woman and see the trolling as the
+      breasts and groin area light up with interest from all the males
+      passing by.
 
-- validate chemopreservation :: chemopreservation is difficult to
-     validate because it destroys the functionality of a brain, and
-     brain simulation will take a long time to mature as a
-     technology. However, one very powerful way to validate
-     chemopreservation would be to have a person/animal learn
-     something with high complexity such as a number or the solution
-     to a maze, or a flashbulb memory. Then you preserve their brain
-     chemically, slice it up, and read /that specific memory/ from the
-     detailed brain scan. Much more difficult, but much more doable.
+ - smart toilets :: Instead of using indirect measures like infrared
+                    detectors of the presence of a person, use computer
+                    vision to directly measure whether the toilet needs
+                    to be flushed. I think a lot of things will end up
+                    going this way as we get better computer vision.
 
-- candy screw :: edible candy screw with candy nuts that you can screw
-                 as well. 
+ - validate chemopreservation :: chemopreservation is difficult to
+      validate because it destroys the functionality of a brain, and
+      brain simulation will take a long time to mature as a
+      technology. However, one very powerful way to validate
+      chemopreservation would be to have a person/animal learn
+      something with high complexity such as a number or the solution
+      to a maze, or a flashbulb memory. Then you preserve their brain
+      chemically, slice it up, and read /that specific memory/ from the
+      detailed brain scan. Much more difficult, but much more doable.
 
-- better bibliography :: when writing a thesis or paper, have the
-     bibliography not just be an opaque list of resources, but have it
-     be a list of /summaries/ and /qualities/ that each paper has in
-     the context of the paper being written. When examining a
-     bibliography, I want to know if reading the papers in the
-     bibliography are worth my time, and I also am probably also
-     interested in exactly the things that are being discussed in the
-     paper I'm reading. The bibliography is the perfect place to
-     provide information about the referenced papers from the
-     author's perspective. I will use this biographic form in my own
-     thesis. 
+ - candy screw :: edible candy screw with candy nuts that you can screw
+                  as well. 
 
-- digital inter-library loan :: libraries at universities already do
-     inter-library loans for books, so why not do the same for access
-     to stupid paywalled digital papers? All the universities could
-     allow access to articles for registered students to all the files
-     available through any participating university. This could be
-     achieved by sending requests through proxies at participating
-     universities. Each university would decide who at the university
-     can access the proxy network. Access to the proxy network could
-     be made easy using something like http://libx.org/.
+ - better bibliography :: when writing a thesis or paper, have the
+      bibliography not just be an opaque list of resources, but have it
+      be a list of /summaries/ and /qualities/ that each paper has in
+      the context of the paper being written. When examining a
+      bibliography, I want to know if reading the papers in the
+      bibliography are worth my time, and I also am probably also
+      interested in exactly the things that are being discussed in the
+      paper I'm reading. The bibliography is the perfect place to
+      provide information about the referenced papers from the
+      author's perspective. I will use this biographic form in my own
+      thesis. 
 
-- chess visual :: to show the vast size of the game trees considered
-                  by computers, show two people playing chess in a
-                  void. They are floating in space, and there is a
-                  simple chess board between them. Then, as they play,
-                  the game tree's they are considering are drawn
-                  behind him. The root of the tree starts centered in
-                  their heads or whatever they use to think, and the
-                  tree grows out from behind, never crossing the
-                  dividing plane between the two players. Each
-                  player's tree is a different color. As they grow,
-                  there are animations for pruning, etc. Eventually,
-                  they look like the hemispheres of a brain, wings,
-                  etc. A human's tree might occasionally have a long
-                  chain, while the computer tree would be more
-                  uniform. You could compare deep blue and a modern
-                  laptop. Use actual data when fighting two computers! 
+ - digital inter-library loan :: libraries at universities already do
+      inter-library loans for books, so why not do the same for access
+      to stupid paywalled digital papers? All the universities could
+      allow access to articles for registered students to all the files
+      available through any participating university. This could be
+      achieved by sending requests through proxies at participating
+      universities. Each university would decide who at the university
+      can access the proxy network. Access to the proxy network could
+      be made easy using something like http://libx.org/.
 
-- time verification :: some standard way to verify that some piece of
-     data was recorded at a specific time. Might involve a time
-     server, a key for each time period, something like that.
+ - chess visual :: to show the vast size of the game trees considered
+                   by computers, show two people playing chess in a
+                   void. They are floating in space, and there is a
+                   simple chess board between them. Then, as they play,
+                   the game tree's they are considering are drawn
+                   behind him. The root of the tree starts centered in
+                   their heads or whatever they use to think, and the
+                   tree grows out from behind, never crossing the
+                   dividing plane between the two players. Each
+                   player's tree is a different color. As they grow,
+                   there are animations for pruning, etc. Eventually,
+                   they look like the hemispheres of a brain, wings,
+                   etc. A human's tree might occasionally have a long
+                   chain, while the computer tree would be more
+                   uniform. You could compare deep blue and a modern
+                   laptop. Use actual data when fighting two computers! 
 
-- tamper proof gold bars :: [[http://www.tungsten-alloy.com/gold-plated-tungsten-alloy-bar.html][this site]] offers gold plated tungsten bars
-     as "novelty" items. One reason to prefer coins is because they
-     are much harder to counterfeit because there is less surface area
-     to mass ratio. However, gold bars are still a great design
-     because they can hold a lot of value in a small space. A gold bar
-     could be given the same protections (and more) that gold coins
-     have to offer by changing it into a "gold book", which would have
-     hundreds of "pages" of gold bound together. This could be
-     implemented with multiple steel rods going through the book which
-     can be removed, or some more classier mechanism for holding the
-     pages. The point is that the bar can be EASILY subdivided (and
-     people would perform this test before buying), thus guaranteeing
-     it's authenticity.
+ - time verification :: some standard way to verify that some piece of
+      data was recorded at a specific time. Might involve a time
+      server, a key for each time period, something like that.
 
-- aurellem shirt :: I should make an aurellem star symbol tee-shirt. 
+ - tamper proof gold bars :: [[http://www.tungsten-alloy.com/gold-plated-tungsten-alloy-bar.html][this site]] offers gold plated tungsten bars
+      as "novelty" items. One reason to prefer coins is because they
+      are much harder to counterfeit because there is less surface area
+      to mass ratio. However, gold bars are still a great design
+      because they can hold a lot of value in a small space. A gold bar
+      could be given the same protections (and more) that gold coins
+      have to offer by changing it into a "gold book", which would have
+      hundreds of "pages" of gold bound together. This could be
+      implemented with multiple steel rods going through the book which
+      can be removed, or some more classier mechanism for holding the
+      pages. The point is that the bar can be EASILY subdivided (and
+      people would perform this test before buying), thus guaranteeing
+      it's authenticity.
 
-- touch vision :: inspired by GelSight, I want to reexamine cortex and
-                  see if I could implement touch as a very low range
-                  form of vision.
+ - aurellem shirt :: I should make an aurellem star symbol tee-shirt. 
 
-- high school science :: this is a lesson in scientific ethics. The
-     goal is to calculate /g/, the local gravitational
-     acceleration. The students are told that the textbook says it's
-     /exactly/ 9.81 before they start the experiment. See how they
-     doctor their results to get closer to the textbook value. It's
-     neat because for any given school, /g/ is probably *not* exactly
-     equal to 9.81, because that is just an average!
+ - touch vision :: inspired by GelSight, I want to reexamine cortex and
+                   see if I could implement touch as a very low range
+                   form of vision.
 
-- opencourseware subtitles :: there are ladies who type up lectures
-     while they are being given. These recordings should be kept and
-     given to OCW for subtitles. If the timestamps of keys are
-     recorded, then it is easy to make subtitles.
+ - high school science :: this is a lesson in scientific ethics. The
+      goal is to calculate /g/, the local gravitational
+      acceleration. The students are told that the textbook says it's
+      /exactly/ 9.81 before they start the experiment. See how they
+      doctor their results to get closer to the textbook value. It's
+      neat because for any given school, /g/ is probably *not* exactly
+      equal to 9.81, because that is just an average!
 
-- screen locking timing :: you use your computer camera to see if you
-     are sitting in front of the computer. If you are, then the screen
-     will never lock. If you are, then the screen will lock with a
-     30-40 second timeout. It's an extension of using inactivity to
-     initiate the countdown, just with more information.
+ - opencourseware subtitles :: there are ladies who type up lectures
+      while they are being given. These recordings should be kept and
+      given to OCW for subtitles. If the timestamps of keys are
+      recorded, then it is easy to make subtitles.
 
-- mirror toilet :: a toilet with a square basin made or mirror instead
-                   or porcelain. That way, you can see how good of a
-                   wipe job you have done / watch how your excretion
-                   system works.
+ - screen locking timing :: you use your computer camera to see if you
+      are sitting in front of the computer. If you are, then the screen
+      will never lock. If you are, then the screen will lock with a
+      30-40 second timeout. It's an extension of using inactivity to
+      initiate the countdown, just with more information.
 
-- test dummies :: why don't we clone anencephalic humans and use then to
-                  test /in vivo/ human organ systems and drugs? It
-                  would be ethical as long as there are women who are
-                  willing to host the clones, and it would be a
-                  tremendous resource for studying the human body. I
-                  see nothing wrong with it morally, since no one is
-                  suffering, and it stands to save many lives throughout
-                  more advanced technology.
+ - mirror toilet :: a toilet with a square basin made or mirror instead
+                    or porcelain. That way, you can see how good of a
+                    wipe job you have done / watch how your excretion
+                    system works.
 
-- X-ray telepresence :: given that a doctor is operating on a patient
-     via telepresence, one cool things you can do is shine X-rays into
-     the patient to view the insides during real time. If the system
-     was coupled with a Bayesian model of the layout of the structure,
-     and the x-rays were only fired whenever the uncertainty of the
-     model reached a certain threshold, then the radiation damage
-     and surgery risk could be minimized.
+ - test dummies :: why don't we clone anencephalic humans and use then to
+                   test /in vivo/ human organ systems and drugs? It
+                   would be ethical as long as there are women who are
+                   willing to host the clones, and it would be a
+                   tremendous resource for studying the human body. I
+                   see nothing wrong with it morally, since no one is
+                   suffering, and it stands to save many lives throughout
+                   more advanced technology.
 
-- superfluid vascular system :: I wonder what would happen if you
-     replaced the blood in a human with a superfluid. What would the
-     physical dynamics be? Would the superfluid flow through the
-     vasculature, or would it ignore it and travel through the cells,
-     or something else entirely. Since superfluids need to be cold to
-     retain their superfluidity, how would the dynamics change during
-     perfusion of a superfluid, where the fluid gains and looses
-     superfluidity as it goes deeper into the body and is cooled by
-     superfluid from upstream. In summary there are two things to
-     simulate 1.) replace all blood in human with superfluid
-     instantly. 2.) perfuse superfluid into human.
+ - X-ray telepresence :: given that a doctor is operating on a patient
+      via telepresence, one cool things you can do is shine X-rays into
+      the patient to view the insides during real time. If the system
+      was coupled with a Bayesian model of the layout of the structure,
+      and the x-rays were only fired whenever the uncertainty of the
+      model reached a certain threshold, then the radiation damage
+      and surgery risk could be minimized.
 
-- projective guessing :: I think that we read and see things by
-     making a really good guess about what we're expecting to see,
-     and then searching for our guess in what we see. If it really
-     doesn't match, then we start to make more guesses / analyze the
-     image from first principles, but most stuff is projective
-     guessing.
+ - superfluid vascular system :: I wonder what would happen if you
+      replaced the blood in a human with a superfluid. What would the
+      physical dynamics be? Would the superfluid flow through the
+      vasculature, or would it ignore it and travel through the cells,
+      or something else entirely. Since superfluids need to be cold to
+      retain their superfluidity, how would the dynamics change during
+      perfusion of a superfluid, where the fluid gains and looses
+      superfluidity as it goes deeper into the body and is cooled by
+      superfluid from upstream. In summary there are two things to
+      simulate 1.) replace all blood in human with superfluid
+      instantly. 2.) perfuse superfluid into human.
 
-- Intestinal flora maintenance :: why not inoculate babies at birth
-     with "ideal" gut flora instead of whatever bullshit they
-     naturally get, thus giving them optimal digestive/nutrient
-     extraction capabilities. Might also be able to make their farts
-     not stink for life, too. MORE IMPORTANTLY, might help to
-     preventatively stop some forms of /colic/, which affects 1 in 5
-     babies and causes constant screaming and pain for about 5 weeks.
+ - projective guessing :: I think that we read and see things by
+      making a really good guess about what we're expecting to see,
+      and then searching for our guess in what we see. If it really
+      doesn't match, then we start to make more guesses / analyze the
+      image from first principles, but most stuff is projective
+      guessing.
 
-- server culture : mirrors :: make a distributed system where people
-     can mirror the websites of people they like -- essentially cover
-     the server costs of favored websites. This could make popular
-     websites run at no cost. The system would require that the
-     mirrored content be the same as the official source. Sort of like
-     bit-torrent for websites.
+ - Intestinal flora maintenance :: why not inoculate babies at birth
+      with "ideal" gut flora instead of whatever bullshit they
+      naturally get, thus giving them optimal digestive/nutrient
+      extraction capabilities. Might also be able to make their farts
+      not stink for life, too. MORE IMPORTANTLY, might help to
+      preventatively stop some forms of /colic/, which affects 1 in 5
+      babies and causes constant screaming and pain for about 5 weeks.
 
-- map programming :: one problem with functional programming is that
-     in order to remain functional, you have to pass up arguments up
-     into each calling function to get the full range of behavior
-     from the lower level functions. Normally people come to a
-     compromise involving abstraction and sparing use of dynamic
-     variables to configure runtime behavior. What would be the
-     advantages of making a programming language where every function
-     receives one argument, a map, which contains all the symbol
-     bindings it would ever need? This map is passed on to all
-     subordinate functions. This way, you could replace functions on
-     the fly, and arrange for there to be sensible defaults,
-     etc. Might cause more harm than good but is an interesting idea.
+ - server culture : mirrors :: make a distributed system where people
+      can mirror the websites of people they like -- essentially cover
+      the server costs of favored websites. This could make popular
+      websites run at no cost. The system would require that the
+      mirrored content be the same as the official source. Sort of like
+      bit-torrent for websites.
 
-- rest nest :: a small EEG device you would attach to your head when
-               you go to sleep at night. ML algorithms would determine
-               your particular sleep cycles. This would mostly be an
-               alarm clock that you could give a time range, say
-               7:00AM - 7:15AM, and it would wake you up during an
-               ideal time corresponding to then end of one of your 90
-               min sleep cycles. You would feel much more rested upon
-               waking up, and would wake up faster. There might be
-               some other uses for the EEG data as well.
+ - map programming :: one problem with functional programming is that
+      in order to remain functional, you have to pass up arguments up
+      into each calling function to get the full range of behavior
+      from the lower level functions. Normally people come to a
+      compromise involving abstraction and sparing use of dynamic
+      variables to configure runtime behavior. What would be the
+      advantages of making a programming language where every function
+      receives one argument, a map, which contains all the symbol
+      bindings it would ever need? This map is passed on to all
+      subordinate functions. This way, you could replace functions on
+      the fly, and arrange for there to be sensible defaults,
+      etc. Might cause more harm than good but is an interesting idea.
 
-- image compression :: use a library like gimp or opencv to process an
-     image to make it have less entropy, then store the reverse of
-     those operations along with the compressed simpler image as a
-     super-compressed image file (possibly accepting some
-     losses). Trades file size for decompression time, and allows one
-     to cheat by using information in gimp/opencv to compress the
-     image. 
+ - rest nest :: a small EEG device you would attach to your head when
+		you go to sleep at night. ML algorithms would determine
+		your particular sleep cycles. This would mostly be an
+		alarm clock that you could give a time range, say
+		7:00AM - 7:15AM, and it would wake you up during an
+		ideal time corresponding to then end of one of your 90
+		min sleep cycles. You would feel much more rested upon
+		waking up, and would wake up faster. There might be
+		some other uses for the EEG data as well.
 
-- fixed cryopreservation :: why not use a fixative to buy enough time
-     to ramp up cryoprotectants to an acceptable level at room
-     temperature? Then, the whole system can be rapidly cooled and
-     vitrified. This method "severs the biological link" in that the
-     fixatives are highly toxic, but current vitrification procedures
-     do this anyway since there can be a lot of freezing damage.
+ - image compression :: use a library like gimp or opencv to process an
+      image to make it have less entropy, then store the reverse of
+      those operations along with the compressed simpler image as a
+      super-compressed image file (possibly accepting some
+      losses). Trades file size for decompression time, and allows one
+      to cheat by using information in gimp/opencv to compress the
+      image. 
 
-- dilated security camera :: a security camera that would capture
-     full video footage of everything at 60fps but then decide to keep
-     only every 1 frame every 5 seconds unless there's something
-     "interesting" happening.
+ - fixed cryopreservation :: why not use a fixative to buy enough time
+      to ramp up cryoprotectants to an acceptable level at room
+      temperature? Then, the whole system can be rapidly cooled and
+      vitrified. This method "severs the biological link" in that the
+      fixatives are highly toxic, but current vitrification procedures
+      do this anyway since there can be a lot of freezing damage.
 
-- bitcoin wallet :: Part of "server culture", this would be something
-                    like "coin.your-domain.com" which would serve as
-                    your personal trusted access to your own bitcoins
-                    from anywhere.
+ - dilated security camera :: a security camera that would capture
+      full video footage of everything at 60fps but then decide to keep
+      only every 1 frame every 5 seconds unless there's something
+      "interesting" happening.
 
-- libpay :: this would be a free library which would enable
-            micro-donations to software projects and other projects,
-            so that you could donate a penny to "emacs" and it would
-            be automatically split up to every person who has ever
-            contributed to emacs in proportion to the amount of
-            community esteem, code quantity, bugs fixed, whatever the
-            community decides. This might make it possible for
-            programmers to live entirely off of free programming.
+ - bitcoin wallet :: Part of "server culture", this would be something
+                     like "coin.your-domain.com" which would serve as
+                     your personal trusted access to your own bitcoins
+                     from anywhere.
 
-- distributed graphics :: Browser based graphics-card accelerated
-     distributed computing API.
+ - libpay :: this would be a free library which would enable
+             micro-donations to software projects and other projects,
+             so that you could donate a penny to "emacs" and it would
+             be automatically split up to every person who has ever
+             contributed to emacs in proportion to the amount of
+             community esteem, code quantity, bugs fixed, whatever the
+             community decides. This might make it possible for
+             programmers to live entirely off of free programming.
 
-- pronouns :: use capital letters A-Z instead of pronouns. They solve
-              pronoun referents and gender neutrality, are short to
-              say, and you can encode useful information into the
-              choice of letter. For example, instead of "Meetings
-              shall be presided over by the president, unless she is
-              absent." USE "Meetings shall be presided over by the
-              president, unless P is absent." We already use this a
-              little, since I and U are reserved for the subject and
-              object respectively.
+ - distributed graphics :: Browser based graphics-card accelerated
+      distributed computing API.
 
-- phone DSP :: software app that inserts an audio DSP between the
-               input to a phone and the output. The DSP is delicious
-               and configurable, and can allow men to make their
-               voices deeper, etc. The app would allow you to hear
-               your own voice as others hear it. Most people hate how
-               their own voice sounds. The app would also allow one to
-               immediately change the parameters of the DSP using good
-               presets.
+ - pronouns :: use capital letters A-Z instead of pronouns. They solve
+               pronoun referents and gender neutrality, are short to
+               say, and you can encode useful information into the
+               choice of letter. For example, instead of "Meetings
+               shall be presided over by the president, unless she is
+               absent." USE "Meetings shall be presided over by the
+               president, unless P is absent." We already use this a
+               little, since I and U are reserved for the subject and
+               object respectively.
 
-- predestined body learning :: a good example of predestined learning
-     might be the mirror neurons.
+ - phone DSP :: software app that inserts an audio DSP between the
+		input to a phone and the output. The DSP is delicious
+		and configurable, and can allow men to make their
+		voices deeper, etc. The app would allow you to hear
+		your own voice as others hear it. Most people hate how
+		their own voice sounds. The app would also allow one to
+		immediately change the parameters of the DSP using good
+		presets.
 
-- restaurant receipt :: use a carbon copy receipt instead of two stupid
-     copies. 
+ - predestined body learning :: a good example of predestined learning
+      might be the mirror neurons.
 
-- anti google glass :: glasses with mounted lasers and computer vision
-     that targets the cameras in google glass and destroy them.
+ - restaurant receipt :: use a carbon copy receipt instead of two stupid
+      copies. 
 
-- wearable towel :: towel with clasp, velcro, whatever, that allows
-                    one to wear the towel more securely than just
-                    wrapping it tightly and hoping for the best.
+ - anti google glass :: glasses with mounted lasers and computer vision
+      that targets the cameras in google glass and destroy them.
 
-- crossdressing :: Easiest way to disguise oneself as a woman is to
-                   wear a burka.
+ - wearable towel :: towel with clasp, velcro, whatever, that allows
+                     one to wear the towel more securely than just
+                     wrapping it tightly and hoping for the best.
 
-- book-mode :: intelligent color highlighting for books and
-               articles. It would disambiguate pronouns and involved
-               references. For example, if "Rachael" was assigned the
-               color red, and "the blonde haired girl" refers to
-               "Rachael", then "the blonde haired girl" would be
-               colored red. Also, you could disambiguate multi part
-               run-on sentences by highlighting each
-               subcomponent. Maybe would also have applications to
-               scientific reading.
+ - crossdressing :: Easiest way to disguise oneself as a woman is to
+                    wear a burka.
 
-- Handheld light Rain measurement :: this would be a clear, teflon
-     coated plastic disk with a camera underneath the disk. You would
-     be able to hold the device out and it would measure the rate of
-     accumulation of water droplets from fine mists and light rain by
-     using computer vision to measure the diameters of the drops.
+ - book-mode :: intelligent color highlighting for books and
+		articles. It would disambiguate pronouns and involved
+		references. For example, if "Rachael" was assigned the
+		color red, and "the blonde haired girl" refers to
+		"Rachael", then "the blonde haired girl" would be
+		colored red. Also, you could disambiguate multi part
+		run-on sentences by highlighting each
+		subcomponent. Maybe would also have applications to
+		scientific reading.
 
-- Big Brother Farming :: This would be a vision system that would
-     individually monitor each plant and turn on water, etc to ensure
-     maximum/uniform growth for each plant. 
+ - Handheld light Rain measurement :: this would be a clear, teflon
+      coated plastic disk with a camera underneath the disk. You would
+      be able to hold the device out and it would measure the rate of
+      accumulation of water droplets from fine mists and light rain by
+      using computer vision to measure the diameters of the drops.
 
-- Discrete Faucet :: A faucet with discrete ticks instead of
-     continuous. 
+ - Big Brother Farming :: This would be a vision system that would
+      individually monitor each plant and turn on water, etc to ensure
+      maximum/uniform growth for each plant. 
 
-- Laser Circle :: take a glass microfiliment and shine a laser at one
-                  end at an oblique angle. It will make a perfect,
-                  large circle on the wall, converting a laser beam
-                  into a laser cone, preserving most of the energy of
-                  the laser.
+ - Discrete Faucet :: A faucet with discrete ticks instead of
+      continuous. 
 
-- Invisible Glass :: Take a container of liquid and embed a
-     glass sculpture made out of glass that has exactly the same index
-     of refraction and color of the liquid. Then the sculpture will be
-     totally invisible in the container, and will only be revealed
-     when the liquid is drained. The container might be a fancy
-     wine/spirit bottle or an hourglass.
+ - Laser Circle :: take a glass microfiliment and shine a laser at one
+                   end at an oblique angle. It will make a perfect,
+                   large circle on the wall, converting a laser beam
+                   into a laser cone, preserving most of the energy of
+                   the laser.
 
-- Caterpillar people :: A race of caterpillar like creatures gains
-     intelligence after eons of predation by birds, etc. These
-     caterpillar creatures still undergo metamorphosis into a large
-     butterfly-like creature. The metamorphosis process turns the
-     caterpillar's brain into mush and reforms it into a minimal,
-     dumb, truly insect-like mind, completely destroying the person
-     the caterpillar was. The society develops all sorts of customs and
-     religious interpretations of the metamorphosis. It is viewed as
-     good and natural by some since it is part of their life cycle and
-     necessary to propagate the species, as only the butterflies can
-     mate. Some think that the butterflies are still the same person
-     because they have the same soul, even they no longer posses the
-     memories or personality of the original caterpillar. Some see the
-     butterfly form as the "true form" of the species, since the
-     butterflies can fly, mate, and are beautiful. Many make a big
-     deal out of the fact that 1-2% of the caterpillar's mind is
-     actually preserved in the butterfly. Some see it as a terrible
-     tragedy and argue that the caterpillars should try to stop the
-     metamorphosis by technology. Practically, some very important
-     members of society undergo hormone therapy and/or surgery to
-     prevent metamorphosis so that they can live longer as themselves.
+ - Invisible Glass :: Take a container of liquid and embed a
+      glass sculpture made out of glass that has exactly the same index
+      of refraction and color of the liquid. Then the sculpture will be
+      totally invisible in the container, and will only be revealed
+      when the liquid is drained. The container might be a fancy
+      wine/spirit bottle or an hourglass.
 
-     This is a continuation of Marvin Minsky's ideas about pain being
-     something that preserves our bodies while destroying our minds,
-     something that is a remnant from our too harsh animal days that
-     hasn't caught up to the fact that we have very complex brains
-     now. It's a worst-case scenario about a maladaptive genetic
-     legacy. Also, it's inspired by "There She Is!!!", which makes a
-     compelling point about homosexuality by introducing a second
-     gender characteristic (bunny/cat, male/female), which makes
-     homophobia look very silly. Here, our own biological legacy of
-     pain and death is made to look like the tragedy it is through the
-     lens of the the caterpillar people.
+ - Caterpillar people :: A race of caterpillar like creatures gains
+      intelligence after eons of predation by birds, etc. These
+      caterpillar creatures still undergo metamorphosis into a large
+      butterfly-like creature. The metamorphosis process turns the
+      caterpillar's brain into mush and reforms it into a minimal,
+      dumb, truly insect-like mind, completely destroying the person
+      the caterpillar was. The society develops all sorts of customs and
+      religious interpretations of the metamorphosis. It is viewed as
+      good and natural by some since it is part of their life cycle and
+      necessary to propagate the species, as only the butterflies can
+      mate. Some think that the butterflies are still the same person
+      because they have the same soul, even they no longer posses the
+      memories or personality of the original caterpillar. Some see the
+      butterfly form as the "true form" of the species, since the
+      butterflies can fly, mate, and are beautiful. Many make a big
+      deal out of the fact that 1-2% of the caterpillar's mind is
+      actually preserved in the butterfly. Some see it as a terrible
+      tragedy and argue that the caterpillars should try to stop the
+      metamorphosis by technology. Practically, some very important
+      members of society undergo hormone therapy and/or surgery to
+      prevent metamorphosis so that they can live longer as themselves.
 
-- relationships as a business :: [[http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Up-or-Out-Solving-the-IT-Turnover-Crisis.aspx][Turnover-Crisis]] is an excellent talk
-     about the "culture of quitting," which is about better business
-     by letting people go instead of keeping them around past their
-     "apex". Focuses on information transfer. Cool idea of an alumni
-     network, which for relationships would be a group of satisfied
-     ex-lovers, who would recommend new people your way, and who might
-     consider coming to you again, refreshed from their time away with
-     new stories/experiences. I should look for examples of this and
-     how they worked out.
+      This is a continuation of Marvin Minsky's ideas about pain being
+      something that preserves our bodies while destroying our minds,
+      something that is a remnant from our too harsh animal days that
+      hasn't caught up to the fact that we have very complex brains
+      now. It's a worst-case scenario about a maladaptive genetic
+      legacy. Also, it's inspired by "There She Is!!!", which makes a
+      compelling point about homosexuality by introducing a second
+      gender characteristic (bunny/cat, male/female), which makes
+      homophobia look very silly. Here, our own biological legacy of
+      pain and death is made to look like the tragedy it is through the
+      lens of the the caterpillar people.
 
-- coffee with tea :: /rlm-tea/ contains 2% sugar, 10% cream, and 20%
-                    dylan coffee. /dylan coffee/ contains 5% sugar,
-                    20% cream, and 10% rlm-tea. Start your mornings
-                    with recursion!
+ - relationships as a business :: [[http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Up-or-Out-Solving-the-IT-Turnover-Crisis.aspx][Turnover-Crisis]] is an excellent talk
+      about the "culture of quitting," which is about better business
+      by letting people go instead of keeping them around past their
+      "apex". Focuses on information transfer. Cool idea of an alumni
+      network, which for relationships would be a group of satisfied
+      ex-lovers, who would recommend new people your way, and who might
+      consider coming to you again, refreshed from their time away with
+      new stories/experiences. I should look for examples of this and
+      how they worked out.
 
-- psychic crystal :: in a science fiction story, this would be an
-     object that is very easy to move physically but is extremely
-     difficult to move with telekinesis.
+ - coffee with tea :: /rlm-tea/ contains 2% sugar, 10% cream, and 20%
+                     dylan coffee. /dylan coffee/ contains 5% sugar,
+                     20% cream, and 10% rlm-tea. Start your mornings
+                     with recursion!
 
-- http://betsofbitco.in/ :: what a great place for an AI/person to
-     prove themselves as a good predictor. I wish this could be
-     automated. 
+ - psychic crystal :: in a science fiction story, this would be an
+      object that is very easy to move physically but is extremely
+      difficult to move with telekinesis.
 
-- true reflection :: don't forget about that mirror in the student
-     center!, it's two mirrors at right angles, like staring at a
-     corner of a room. The light reflects so that it shows you what
-     you actually look like, instead of your mirror image.
+ - http://betsofbitco.in/ :: what a great place for an AI/person to
+      prove themselves as a good predictor. I wish this could be
+      automated. 
 
-- remote control wasp :: use computer to drive wings with remote
-  power/logic.
+ - true reflection :: don't forget about that mirror in the student
+      center!, it's two mirrors at right angles, like staring at a
+      corner of a room. The light reflects so that it shows you what
+      you actually look like, instead of your mirror image.
 
-- encrypted email phone book :: public (distributed?) database of
-     email->private-key pairs, to enable automatic encryption.
+ - remote control wasp :: use computer to drive wings with remote
+   power/logic.
 
-- universal eye color :: every equivalent creature will see each
-     others' eyes as black -- it's universal. Even if the creatures
-     see in radio waves, and their eyes are 2m long pieces of jagged
-     metal, when those creatures look at each other, they will see
-     black, the absence of light and color (since it's being absorbed
-     by the sensor array).
+ - encrypted email phone book :: public (distributed?) database of
+      email->private-key pairs, to enable automatic encryption.
 
-- intelligent microwave :: it learns where the hot nodes of its fields
-  are, and uses them to evenly heat any food item. It has an infrared
-  camera or something to keep track of how hot the food is. That way,
-  you don't get bowls where the edges are boiling, while the center is
-  still frozen. Requires a little bit of intelligence/vision, since
-  the exact pattern of heating totally depends on the exact shape of
-  the food.  Wouldn't need a carousel, and wouldn't need a timer,
-  just a desired temperature. Could also detect ice, and automatically
-  defrost the parts which are frozen. Might be able to work much
-  faster since it can avoid overheating; might have problems with
-  heating the insides of thick things, might need a weight sensor too.
+ - universal eye color :: every equivalent creature will see each
+      others' eyes as black -- it's universal. Even if the creatures
+      see in radio waves, and their eyes are 2m long pieces of jagged
+      metal, when those creatures look at each other, they will see
+      black, the absence of light and color (since it's being absorbed
+      by the sensor array).
+
+ - intelligent microwave :: it learns where the hot nodes of its fields
+   are, and uses them to evenly heat any food item. It has an infrared
+   camera or something to keep track of how hot the food is. That way,
+   you don't get bowls where the edges are boiling, while the center is
+   still frozen. Requires a little bit of intelligence/vision, since
+   the exact pattern of heating totally depends on the exact shape of
+   the food.  Wouldn't need a carousel, and wouldn't need a timer,
+   just a desired temperature. Could also detect ice, and automatically
+   defrost the parts which are frozen. Might be able to work much
+   faster since it can avoid overheating; might have problems with
+   heating the insides of thick things, might need a weight sensor too.
   
-  + Would be much cleaner than other microwaves, since food would
-    "sputter" and splash liquid much less.
+   + Would be much cleaner than other microwaves, since food would
+     "sputter" and splash liquid much less.
 
-  + Throw in some SIFT+R processing to match previously cooked foods
-    and learn the exact heating profiles for things that have been
-    cooked before -- it can get faster the more it's used.
+   + Throw in some SIFT+R processing to match previously cooked foods
+     and learn the exact heating profiles for things that have been
+     cooked before -- it can get faster the more it's used.
 
-- compression :: brain-aware image compression algorithm
+ - compression :: brain-aware image compression algorithm
 
-- Credit card proxy :: would be a company which works like paypal
-     except for real world transactions
+ - Credit card proxy :: would be a company which works like paypal
+      except for real world transactions
 
-- Flesh pillow :: a pillow like the arm or torso of a human, complete
-                  with simulated temperature, bones, and heartbeat.
+ - Flesh pillow :: a pillow like the arm or torso of a human, complete
+                   with simulated temperature, bones, and heartbeat.
 
-- super screw :: a screw which has only one or two threads and instead
-                 uses compression to fit into a hole (the whole shank
-                 of the screw is split into multiple pieces to
-                 accomplish this; the tip is a point, then the middle
-                 bulges out and gets compressed when screwed in.
+ - super screw :: a screw which has only one or two threads and instead
+                  uses compression to fit into a hole (the whole shank
+                  of the screw is split into multiple pieces to
+                  accomplish this; the tip is a point, then the middle
+                  bulges out and gets compressed when screwed in.
 
-- light filter :: (like light tweezers) to mechanically separate
-                  fluids with different index of refraction
+ - light filter :: (like light tweezers) to mechanically separate
+                   fluids with different index of refraction
 
-- chalk eraser project :: maybe make a directional eraser, for easy
-     release of chalk dust, like fur, and how it likes to rest in a
-     certain direction.
+ - chalk eraser project :: maybe make a directional eraser, for easy
+      release of chalk dust, like fur, and how it likes to rest in a
+      certain direction.
 
-- silver socks :: socks laced with silver for the antimicrobial
-                  properties.
+ - silver socks :: socks laced with silver for the antimicrobial
+                   properties.
 
-- UROP :: magnet gear/metal teeth tape 
+ - UROP :: magnet gear/metal teeth tape 
 
-- Rod of Moses :: device to distill urine through evaporation and
-                  easily dispose of urea crystals for use in desert --
-                  produce drinkable water.
+ - Rod of Moses :: device to distill urine through evaporation and
+                   easily dispose of urea crystals for use in desert --
+                   produce drinkable water.
 
-- UROP :: Make the LED in line with the flow for the micro injector, so
-          that it may transmit maximum flow.  Motor that changes
-          distance of internal magnet from windings depending on
-          desired speed so as to obtain maximum power efficiency.
+ - UROP :: Make the LED in line with the flow for the micro injector, so
+           that it may transmit maximum flow.  Motor that changes
+           distance of internal magnet from windings depending on
+           desired speed so as to obtain maximum power efficiency.
 
-- lottery scraper :: web scraper which monitors various lotteries,
-     looking for "special" gimmick changes in the rules (like 4x
-     winnings on Wednesdays) and computes expected value...
+ - lottery scraper :: web scraper which monitors various lotteries,
+      looking for "special" gimmick changes in the rules (like 4x
+      winnings on Wednesdays) and computes expected value...
 
-- Memristiors novel design :: make an evolutionary algorithm to make
-  old stuff using all four basic circuit elements.
+ - Memristiors novel design :: make an evolutionary algorithm to make
+   old stuff using all four basic circuit elements.
 
-- Conductive concrete :: concrete that has embedded metal fibers so
-     that it can conduct electricity.
+ - Conductive concrete :: concrete that has embedded metal fibers so
+      that it can conduct electricity.
 
-- little bitty melting pot :: might be useful for some types of
-     manufacturing/3D printing -- how small can an induction melter be
-     made, for example.
+ - little bitty melting pot :: might be useful for some types of
+      manufacturing/3D printing -- how small can an induction melter be
+      made, for example.
 
-- power strip/timer programmable combination :: meh
+ - power strip/timer programmable combination :: meh
 
-- algorithms :: which learn what their inputs are and in what order,
-               and can adapt to changing circumstances -- they
-               remember previous arguments and adapt so as to respond
-               to different connections.
+ - algorithms :: which learn what their inputs are and in what order,
+		and can adapt to changing circumstances -- they
+		remember previous arguments and adapt so as to respond
+		to different connections.
 
-- true pure tones :: hear a true pure tone by direct stimulation of the
-     nerves of the ear
+ - true pure tones :: hear a true pure tone by direct stimulation of the
+      nerves of the ear
   
-- mechanical analogue to the electrical op-amp ::  would be an object
-     with two levers -- you pull on one lever and the other moves the
-     same way, no matter what's in the way or what it is driving. This
-     analogy could be useful to teach op amps to people.
+ - mechanical analogue to the electrical op-amp ::  would be an object
+      with two levers -- you pull on one lever and the other moves the
+      same way, no matter what's in the way or what it is driving. This
+      analogy could be useful to teach op amps to people.
 
-- paper folding device :: make it convenient to fold lots of papers in
-     various ways.
+ - paper folding device :: make it convenient to fold lots of papers in
+      various ways.
 
-- concrete epoxy :: epoxy with sand/ some other solid material.
+ - concrete epoxy :: epoxy with sand/ some other solid material.
 
-- light capacitor :: suspend some ball of material with a high index
-     of refraction and shine light into it so it gets stuck -- would
-     the light stay trapped forever? Could you build up unlimited
-     quantities of light inside the sphere (which could then be
-     released slowly by frustrated internal reflection?
+ - light capacitor :: suspend some ball of material with a high index
+      of refraction and shine light into it so it gets stuck -- would
+      the light stay trapped forever? Could you build up unlimited
+      quantities of light inside the sphere (which could then be
+      released slowly by frustrated internal reflection?
 
-- movie screening :: Movies always are too long at first. One way to
-     shorten them ``scientifically" is to record blink rate during the
-     move and then remove / shorten the frames of the parts in which
-     there are a lot of blinking (average this over multiple people)
-     better yet, put it online and do it across thousands of people. I
-     got this from youtube in which there is an episode of kill bill
-     which is composed entirely of the parts in which people had their
-     eyes closed. slogan: want to make a movie people can't take their
-     eyes off of? Just take those parts out!
+ - movie screening :: Movies always are too long at first. One way to
+      shorten them ``scientifically" is to record blink rate during the
+      move and then remove / shorten the frames of the parts in which
+      there are a lot of blinking (average this over multiple people)
+      better yet, put it online and do it across thousands of people. I
+      got this from youtube in which there is an episode of kill bill
+      which is composed entirely of the parts in which people had their
+      eyes closed. slogan: want to make a movie people can't take their
+      eyes off of? Just take those parts out!
 
-- optimize an article :: capture reading of a scientific article via
-     screen capture while people read it, then use it to make the
-     article better. like the movie-pruning idea.
+ - optimize an article :: capture reading of a scientific article via
+      screen capture while people read it, then use it to make the
+      article better. like the movie-pruning idea.
 
-- super reading program :: teaches people the ideal mental mask to
-     apply during reading so as to read very fast.
+ - super reading program :: teaches people the ideal mental mask to
+      apply during reading so as to read very fast.
 
-- explosive thermite epoxy putty :: one part would contain the rust,
-     one part the aluminum.
+ - explosive thermite epoxy putty :: one part would contain the rust,
+      one part the aluminum.
 
-- reading comprehension :: use the above screen capture routine to
-     make a quiz program that constructs questions about the content
-     you seemed to gloss over while reading. could be easy if the pdf
-     came with embedded questions.  Dylan: automatically generate
-     word-cloud about the parts you found most interesting; help
-     others who read the same stuff by drawing attention to the
-     interesting parts.
+ - reading comprehension :: use the above screen capture routine to
+      make a quiz program that constructs questions about the content
+      you seemed to gloss over while reading. could be easy if the pdf
+      came with embedded questions.  Dylan: automatically generate
+      word-cloud about the parts you found most interesting; help
+      others who read the same stuff by drawing attention to the
+      interesting parts.
 
-- hard sword :: make a samurai sword, but use osmiridum instead of
-                martensite for the cutting part; it should be a better
-                sword.
+ - hard sword :: make a samurai sword, but use osmiridum instead of
+                 martensite for the cutting part; it should be a better
+                 sword.
 
-- close range wireless :: use the induction technology used to
-     recharge electric toothbrushes with no metal links to send data
-     without any metal at all!
+ - close range wireless :: use the induction technology used to
+      recharge electric toothbrushes with no metal links to send data
+      without any metal at all!
 
-- reading :: is a form of synsethesia
+ - reading :: is a form of synsethesia
 
-- DNA printer :: A machine which translates the text eg, "ACTGAC" into
-                  actual DNA
+ - DNA printer :: A machine which translates the text eg, "ACTGAC" into
+                   actual DNA
 
-- black generator :: ferro-fluid magnetic field suspended micro
-     generator to make electricity
+ - black generator :: ferro-fluid magnetic field suspended micro
+      generator to make electricity
 
-- alcohol battery :: alcohol/fluid flow powered battery
+ - alcohol battery :: alcohol/fluid flow powered battery
 
-- folding razor blade sword ::
+ - folding razor blade sword ::
 
-- perfect pitch :: learn perfect pitch using another sense in
-                   combination (sight or touch)
+ - perfect pitch :: learn perfect pitch using another sense in
+                    combination (sight or touch)
 
-- kaleidoscope projector ::
+ - kaleidoscope projector ::
 
-- razor blade de-sharpener :: for guilt free disposal
+ - razor blade de-sharpener :: for guilt free disposal
 
-- bricks :: filled with luminescent plant material
+ - bricks :: filled with luminescent plant material
 
-- bio metallic structure :: metal grids with seeds inside, which grow
-     together and form a durable biological matrix. The metal
-     substrate delivers water. (maybe use plastic instead of metal?)
-     Dylan: enrich plants with inorganic compounds; electrical
-     interfaces in cellular plant matter => remote-controlled
-     photosynthetic/bioluminescent structures.
+ - bio metallic structure :: metal grids with seeds inside, which grow
+      together and form a durable biological matrix. The metal
+      substrate delivers water. (maybe use plastic instead of metal?)
+      Dylan: enrich plants with inorganic compounds; electrical
+      interfaces in cellular plant matter => remote-controlled
+      photosynthetic/bioluminescent structures.
 
-- conducting extracellular matrix :: to allow better control of
-     organic systems and an enhanced nervous system.
+ - conducting extracellular matrix :: to allow better control of
+      organic systems and an enhanced nervous system.
 
-- cross-modal memory hashing :: a way to retrieve memories more
-     robustly. 
+ - cross-modal memory hashing :: a way to retrieve memories more
+      robustly. 
 
-- flossing thimble-guards :: (these actually exist)
+ - flossing thimble-guards :: (these actually exist)
 
-- rules + lattice learning :: integrate lattice learning with rules by
-     generating hypothetical examples
+ - rules + lattice learning :: integrate lattice learning with rules by
+      generating hypothetical examples
 
-- wooden refrigerator :: to give food a better taste Dylan: like
-     barrels for wine, or planks for salmon. Maybe just have "flavor
-     planks" for your pre-existing fridge. Need to mitigate effect of
-     temperature on volatility?
+ - wooden refrigerator :: to give food a better taste Dylan: like
+      barrels for wine, or planks for salmon. Maybe just have "flavor
+      planks" for your pre-existing fridge. Need to mitigate effect of
+      temperature on volatility?
 
-- radioactive transmutation molecule by molecule :: create precious
-     metals or something else economically advantageous.
+ - radioactive transmutation molecule by molecule :: create precious
+      metals or something else economically advantageous.
 
-- crowd preservation :: inoculate food with tons of harmless
-     bacteria so that there's no room for bad bacteria as a method of
-     preservation
+ - crowd preservation :: inoculate food with tons of harmless
+      bacteria so that there's no room for bad bacteria as a method of
+      preservation
 
-- old school preservation :: Pasteur - style holding jar with siphon
-     as a way to store liquids at room temperature indefinitely w/o
-     refrigeration.
+ - old school preservation :: Pasteur - style holding jar with siphon
+      as a way to store liquids at room temperature indefinitely w/o
+      refrigeration.
 
-- restaurant policy :: Throw rude people out of restaurant as a matter
-     of course -- make ambiance much better.
+ - restaurant policy :: Throw rude people out of restaurant as a matter
+      of course -- make ambiance much better.
 
-- clean windows :: make something that mixes soap with fire hydrant
-                   water (and reduces the pressure a bit) and use it
-                   to clean windows of buildings.
+ - clean windows :: make something that mixes soap with fire hydrant
+                    water (and reduces the pressure a bit) and use it
+                    to clean windows of buildings.
 
-- ocarina :: make an ocarina out of pure silver
+ - ocarina :: make an ocarina out of pure silver
 
-- fire pen :: pen which burns words on to the page, thus never needing
-              any ink. Is there a way to make it runnable from the
-              human's energy?
+ - fire pen :: pen which burns words on to the page, thus never needing
+               any ink. Is there a way to make it runnable from the
+               human's energy?
 
-- website to design your own soda :: and label, and have it mailed to
-     you / sell it from your own online store.
+ - website to design your own soda :: and label, and have it mailed to
+      you / sell it from your own online store.
 
-- solar panels :: that float on the ocean
+ - solar panels :: that float on the ocean
 
-- handcuffs with more than two cuffs (3?) :: great for daisy chaining
-     people, binding them to environment, etc.
+ - handcuffs with more than two cuffs (3?) :: great for daisy chaining
+      people, binding them to environment, etc.
 
-- vector based SOUND files :: like the pictures but with SOUND. codify
-     sound in a language with enough symbols so that it can describe
-     everything and encode it in that. would be like going from speech
-     to text or smtg. Could also store sound as an image of the
-     wavefront encoded as a vector image.
+ - vector based SOUND files :: like the pictures but with SOUND. codify
+      sound in a language with enough symbols so that it can describe
+      everything and encode it in that. would be like going from speech
+      to text or smtg. Could also store sound as an image of the
+      wavefront encoded as a vector image.
 
-- Mouse :: with a horizontal scroll wheel in addition to the vertical
-           scroll wheel
+ - Mouse :: with a horizontal scroll wheel in addition to the vertical
+            scroll wheel
 
-- logic maintenance system for big institutions :: to make sure the
-     things they are thinking about doing are not retarded
+ - logic maintenance system for big institutions :: to make sure the
+      things they are thinking about doing are not retarded
 
-- http://www.regulations.gov/ :: cool site
+ - http://www.regulations.gov/ :: cool site
 
-- genetically engineered glowing fruit :: sell seeds?
+ - genetically engineered glowing fruit :: sell seeds?
 
-- memory slide :: IF memories are encoded using particular sensory
-                  impressions, what happens if the sensory organ
-                  itself changes? those memories would become
-                  inaccessible. maybe this is why we can't remember
-                  much from our childhoods. also, could this happen
-                  throughout life as well? Could S remember stuff from
-                  his childhood?
+ - memory slide :: IF memories are encoded using particular sensory
+                   impressions, what happens if the sensory organ
+                   itself changes? those memories would become
+                   inaccessible. maybe this is why we can't remember
+                   much from our childhoods. also, could this happen
+                   throughout life as well? Could S remember stuff from
+                   his childhood?
 
-- make a completely indestructible phone :: no moving parts or display
-     you should be able to slam it around all you want, and it will
-     just work. brutally simple. aerogel around the battery, minimal
-     interface - never gets too hot, and can be dropped into water. no
-     holes -- uses field effects for everything from the buttons to
-     inductive charging and data transfer.
+ - make a completely indestructible phone :: no moving parts or display
+      you should be able to slam it around all you want, and it will
+      just work. brutally simple. aerogel around the battery, minimal
+      interface - never gets too hot, and can be dropped into water. no
+      holes -- uses field effects for everything from the buttons to
+      inductive charging and data transfer.
 
-- midi to ocarina "tabs" program :: (online website? buy ocarinas from
-     it too)
+ - midi to ocarina "tabs" program :: (online website? buy ocarinas from
+      it too)
 
-- 3d printing with sound pulses (or just patterns) :: like the 8.03
-     lecture
+ - 3d printing with sound pulses (or just patterns) :: like the 8.03
+      lecture
 
-- lighter flint on spring :: make hot, throw it at something, and it
-     makes sparkles!
+ - lighter flint on spring :: make hot, throw it at something, and it
+      makes sparkles!
 
-- nuclear energy :: Rebranding New+Clear Energy with informational
-                    campaign and public debate forum to enforce its
-                    transparent and open nature. France needn't be the
-                    world leader in nuclear energy. (Dylan)
+ - nuclear energy :: Rebranding New+Clear Energy with informational
+                     campaign and public debate forum to enforce its
+                     transparent and open nature. France needn't be the
+                     world leader in nuclear energy. (Dylan)
 
-- bubbles :: Engineer a material which has both ductility and high
-             surface tension to make the "third"
-             minimal-surface-energy solution to a bubble suspended
-             between two equal-diameter rings. (Solutions are
-             cylindrical catenary curve, two separated half-bubbles,
-             and a double-cone)
+ - bubbles :: Engineer a material which has both ductility and high
+              surface tension to make the "third"
+              minimal-surface-energy solution to a bubble suspended
+              between two equal-diameter rings. (Solutions are
+              cylindrical catenary curve, two separated half-bubbles,
+              and a double-cone)
 
-- Textbook whose content can be varied continuously :: alter level of
-     difficulty, rigor, diction, emphasize crossover with certain
-     other discipline, etc. Content generated dynamically from
-     knowledge base, along with questions that are moreover altered to
-     guide knowledge acquisition. Motivation: One book of
-     knowledge. /One./
+ - Textbook whose content can be varied continuously :: alter level of
+      difficulty, rigor, diction, emphasize crossover with certain
+      other discipline, etc. Content generated dynamically from
+      knowledge base, along with questions that are moreover altered to
+      guide knowledge acquisition. Motivation: One book of
+      knowledge. /One./
 
 ** From Jacob's idea list
 
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