# HG changeset patch # User Robert McIntyre # Date 1468383385 25200 # Node ID 7a6b855cfb99805ca086cdf3ec759a427962adda # Parent 3547c072c29fa9931c4912b0b4a6f10b63c295cd more ideas, other stuff. diff -r 3547c072c29f -r 7a6b855cfb99 images/star-arctic.jpg Binary file images/star-arctic.jpg has changed diff -r 3547c072c29f -r 7a6b855cfb99 org/good-ideas.org --- a/org/good-ideas.org Sun Apr 24 21:52:01 2016 -0700 +++ b/org/good-ideas.org Tue Jul 12 21:16:25 2016 -0700 @@ -40,8 +40,150 @@
#+END_HTML +** copper + ethylene glycol + If red blood cells are rendered impermeabale to EG when Cu is + present, then maybe you can destroy RBCs by a mixture of EG and Cu? + (By osmotically crushing them?) +** 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? It's true that linguistically, + there's no way to communicate thsi concept to someone who can't + smell. We mind-project this real linguistic separation into reality + and get qualia, thinking that because it's beyond the reach of + language it's also beyond physical reality as well! +** 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"! Would want to also pair with suitable encryption! + +** 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. + +** Chelation as a Method to Improve Cryoprotectant Permeability + Copper (and potentially other metallic ions) can reduce + cryoprotectant permeability, so chelation might help to make them + more permeable. Perhaps this could be why dog brains are more + premeable to glycerol than most other animals? + +** Transgender Fruit Analogy + A tomato is a fruit but its a vegetable inside. + +** 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 + Bubbles and water droplets moving from place to place are great + analoges for "holes" in transistors. You could totally build a + computer with nonlinear bubble accumulators. + +** Dark Blood Bag + Blood bags in hospitals should be dark colored to protect the blood + from damage from light. + +** Chimeric double-male double-female organism + Chimeric organism with XX and XX patterns from two males and two + females. On average, it has the correct methylation pattern. Would + it work? Could half of the cells then be programmed to die at a + later stage after the organism has "bootstrapped"? + +** Fixed protein packets as drug delivery mechanism + Group of fixed proteins in a network which is used as + medicine. Hemoglobin, for false blood, maybe? + +** Proof of the Afterlife + Website where you enter your pgp signed encrypted file, then swear + by all the gods that you'll haunt me (Robert McIntyre) with the + decryption password when you die, along with whatever other + messages you have. protocol -- I video, throw rock (to prove you're + not just faking), get password. Like James Randi's prize. + +** Medieval name for ethylene glycol + Icebane + +** Overflow Hikau + A hiku about buffer overflows, with garbage C code inside. + +** The White Knight + The son of a nobleman and steeped in the knightly tradition since + birth, he rides across the land with his family greatsword, + "Privilege", defending the principles of chivalry, and his codes of + honor. + + WHITE KNIGHT: (*rides up to a peasant on his magnificent white + stallion*) Hold, Peasant! You would eat bread while sitting on the + ground? Where is your honor, that you would not eat like a man, + sitting at the dinner table? + + Peasant: I haven't /got/ any dinner table... + + WHITE KNIGHT: (*decapitates peasant with Privlege, without even + dismounting from his horse*) Another day spent defending the honor + of everyone! + + Basically, the White Knight is /such/ an asshole. + +** 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. + +** 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 + This is a brain bank that has brains well-enough preserved that the + minds inside are still viable. + +** Online paper reviews for scientific papers + This really needs to be a thing and would be great for the + scientific community. I want an online thing like yelp or something + that lets you comment on scientific papers and rate them for + clairty, etc. + +** Binary-Continuous Feedback + I was fascinated by a soda machine that shut itself off by filling + a carefully balanced cup, which fell away from the fill-switch once + the cup had become heavy enough. Makes me think of minsky's + "ultimate machine" or Dylan's autosearch engine. + +** Trolley Cryonics + According to the book "Moral Tribes", people can more rationally + think about death when it exists in a "non-primary action + path". Perhaps this could be a good way to explain cryonics / organ + donation? + +** Binary Metric + You make up new unit names for "2 centimeters", "4 centimeters", + "16 centimeters", as well as "1/2 centimeters", "1/4 centimeters", + etc. Names might be duocentimeter, quatrocentimeter, + hemidemisemiliter, 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 Putting aside the philosophical problems around mind-uploading for a moment, imagine that you were /already/ a computer program diff -r 3547c072c29f -r 7a6b855cfb99 org/ideas.org --- a/org/ideas.org Sun Apr 24 21:52:01 2016 -0700 +++ b/org/ideas.org Tue Jul 12 21:16:25 2016 -0700 @@ -19,6 +19,202 @@ getting credit. #+end_quote + - I just had sex spinal tap <<2016-07-12 Tue>> :: measure signals + coming from your spinal cord to detect orgasm w/ machine + learning. Then your fucking app can post to facebook + automatically saying "I just had sex". + + - a billion years of suffering, finally quieted by a noble oil spill <<2016-07-11 Mon>> :: + + - pig egg extraction <<2016-07-10 Sun>> :: put human stem cells into + a pig embryo, get the pig to grow human eggs / human + reproductive systems, use the pig as an artificial womb. Also + can get high quality <5 year old eggs from post memopausal women + bu making their stem cells grow new eggs. In general, we should + do a lot more transgenic xenobiologu! + + - cortex-doubling <<2016-06-26 Sun>> :: could we do something like + the cortex-transplanting experiments except with an aim to + greatly increase the size of the brain's cortex-- take a whole + cortex from one embryo and just "shove it in" to the other + animal? + + - use optical methods to scan in a vynl recored <<2016-06-26 Sun>> :: + + - chilled cubes of quartz instead of ice to cool down a drink + <<2016-06-22 Wed>> :: or troll people with lukewarm "ice" + water. Aristotle said that quartz was permementaly frozen ice, why + not take advantage. And why didn't Aristotle invent child + psychology? + + - seedless fruits <<2016-06-22 Wed>> :: could we make sedless fruits + by breeding for increasingly /asymettric/ seed distribution? + That way, we could breed until the seeds are on the surface of + the fruit, then untill they're at the stem, then until they're + off on their own branch near the fruit. could be cool! + + - can dogs hear our muscles contracting? <<2016-06-22 Wed>> :: + muscles make an infrasonice sound when they contarct. In + general, might this be an unintended side channel when it comes + to animal experiments. + + - authenticity and responsibility display similar mental glitches + <<2016-06-21 Tue>> :: oh, you mirdered someone by presing a + button-- then you're not repossible. If you print out an artwork, + then it's not "authentic". In both cases we take the requirement + for hands to be involved too far and cant't see through a layer of + indirection + + - better fixatives with aldehyde dehydrogenaze inhibitors? + <<2016-06-20 Mon>> :: the idea is to disable the aldehyde + dehydrogenaze enzymes that might react with aldehydes and retart + progress. This might be irrelevant given how many fixative + molucules might be used during fixation, but these systems might be + coupled with negative downstream effects? See + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldehyde_dehydrogenase for more details. + + - batch multiple credit card transactions for a coffee shop + <<2016-06-19 Sun>> :: if you get a foffee, then get another + thing later on the same credit card, then the coffee shop should + batch these transactions together at the end of the day to avoid + multiple fees. + + - a man has to have balls to cut off his own balls <<2016-06-17 Fri>> :: + + - kerning art <<2016-06-16 Thu>> :: an extention to LaTeX that puts + really subtle smiley facse and shit into the whitespacing of a document + + - glare analysis <<2016-06-15 Wed>> :: take a computer model of a + building, use ray-tracing to simulate there light goes during + different times of the day, and see if the light will bother + anyone in "standard" positions, such as desks, counters, etc. + + - almost-silent whispers in the brain <<2016-06-14 Tue>> :: a set of + silent synapses are triggered in such a way to create a wealth + of important memories, none of which are accessable to the person! + + - jumping forward in time, by changing your brain + <<2016-06-11 Sat>> :: and also, the state-space evolution of a + brain has loops, etc + + - "draw your own computer" -- an MIT IAP class <<2016-06-11 Sat>> :: + you take an 8.5x11 sheet of paper and draw out a simple CPU on + it (with connections for a decent RAM chip, and two serial + ports). You'd use a fine pen and a magnifying glass, draw from a + template, and the class would go over the circuits you're + drawing as you draw them. Then you do some VERY BASIC + photolithography to make it real! Then you write in a nice game + of ZORK or something! Possibly this could be a two-three day + class depending on how complicated the drawing has to be. + + - knife with gallium core and M&M resin on the outside + <<2016-06-10 Fri>> :: "melts in your enemies' guts, not your + scabbard" + + - pizza lathe printer <<2016-06-09 Thu>> :: spin pizza, apply + toppings. make it be intriciate. like a tomato sauce + spirograph. "spirograph pizza" + + - "conception" of memory <<2016-06-09 Thu>> :: this is almost a + kabbalistic mystery, that the molecules used in conception might + be the same used to conceive a memory: from Kadell: In Xenopus oocytes, maternal RNA is silent until activated by the +cytoplas- mic polyadenylation element binding protein (CPEB) (Richter +1999). In Aplysia a new iso- form of CPEB (ApCPEB) with novel +properties was found in neurons. Blocking this isoform at a marked +(active) synapse prevented the main- tenance but not the initiation of +long-term syn- aptic facilitation (Si et al. 2003a,b). + + - mind erasure, all cells live <<2016-06-09 Thu>> :: trypsin in the + brain -- dissociate neurons without killing them. + + - delicate flavors pumped through your blood and into your tounge and + organs <<2016-06-08 Wed>> :: the infinite snack pump + + - imagemagick converter for ffmpeg <<2016-06-07 Tue>> :: make it so + that you can execute any imagemagick command on every frame of a + video by using ffmpeg. + + - dyln duel decks -- elbows vs. NO <<2016-06-04 Sat>> :: + + - knife garnish <<2016-06-04 Sat>> :: + + - the "easy" and "hard" problems of mathematics <<2016-06-02 Thu>> :: + the "easy" problem is to jsut do things like prove the rieman + hypothesis. The "hard" problem is to show why 2 /is/ 2 and not + some other number, and what makes /this/ 2 different form + /that/ 2. You know, to really /explain/ it. + + - naming convention for marriage <<2016-05-25 Wed>> :: hyphenate your + names with a new family last name, then the kids just get the + family name. Then other people can call you "Mr. family-name", + etc. By Dylan Holmes. + + - light of the mind <<2016-05-23 Mon>> :: a researcher is + experimenting with transgenic viruses to do optogenetic + experiments, accidentally infects himself. Then from then on, + his neurons actually glow with light inside his skull. + + - microwaves to accelerate cryoprotectant uptake + <<2016-05-21 Sat>> :: works for osmium during embedding, so why not + for cryoprotectants? + + - breed very small dogs, bats, mice, etc <<2016-05-21 Sat>> :: for + neuroscience research. I wonder how many generations it would + take to surpass the 2g limit of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitti's_hog-nosed_bat][bumblebe bats]]? Then the + reduced species would be ideal for whole-brain scanning. + Depending on the tech curves, it may indeed be more feasible to + start with something like an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_shrew][Etruscan shrew]], bred it for 100 + generations to be a quarter of the size, and then proceed with + brain scanning, rather than starting directly! + + - sun dogs at the final stand <<2016-05-21 Sat>> :: "It was always a + one way trip," said the Hero of the Sun. The rest of the heros + could only watch as he made his final stand. Amidst the dark, + icy gloom, he summoned one last powerful bit of sun-magic, + sacrificing himself to hold back the forces of darkness. From + hundreds of miles away, the sky brightened with an artificial + dawn, and the sky shown with the hero's name: + [[../images/star-artic.jpg]]. + + With [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g53zcpaXT8o&t=21m23s][this]] playing in the background. + + - space elevator based on string <<2016-05-20 Fri>> :: You have a + small dumb robot that walks up and down strings while carrying + something. You launch a "spider" robot from a satelite with a + bunch of string, tethering one end on earth and one end in + grosynchronus orbit. Then you successively make the string + bigger. + + - lavender oats -- oatmeal w/ tea -- turns out it doesn't work all that well <<2016-05-17 Tue>> :: + + - all the atoms in a head, all the stories that can be <<2016-05-17 Tue>> :: + + - boltzman brain april fools <<2016-05-17 Tue>> :: + + - exochemotherapy <<2016-05-16 Mon>> :: let's say you have lung + cancer, or some other cancer you might need to treat with + radiation. Perhaps it could be good to remove the organ from the + body (while still having it attached), and apply radiatio, etc. + + - glutaraldehyde as biological glue to bind implants <<2016-04-28 Thu>> :: + + - the blank lonliness of singularity <<2016-04-28 Thu>> :: I think + that at least for me, I've always been missing the important + spiritual aspect of /duality/. /Duality/ here means that you + exist as two or more copies at the same time. There so much I + want to focus on, especilly the orthogonal worlds of science and + society, that my natural state of orginazation would be to + /both/ hole myself up in a lab and work on discovering truth, + AND work on talking with peopls and making a great network of + friends. I want to be able to really talk with myself! + + - low voltage em imaging + fib sem directly of ASC brains <<2016-04-25 Mon>> :: + + - dildo-shaped earplugs <<2016-04-25 Mon>> :: just put dicks in both + your ears. Make them double ended. In general, use earplugs as a + platform for making neat things mounted to your ears, like foam + flowers or ribbons or whatever. + - ASC as a police evidence preservation technique <<2016-04-18 Mon>> :: - multi metal fixation w/ formamide <<2016-04-18 Mon>> :: osmium @@ -622,6 +818,8 @@ present, then maybe you can destroy RBCs by a mixture of EG and Cu? + - *##### ENTRIES PAST THIS LINE HAVE BEEN PROCESSED FOR GOOD IDEAS #####* + - 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 @@ -706,7 +904,7 @@ - scientist online paper reviews :: - - binary feedback ::like with the soda machine + - binary feedback :: like with the soda machine - trolley cryonics :: change the cryonics protocol around so that the death occurs in a non-primary action loop. @@ -718,8 +916,6 @@ - do it once -- upload :: - - *##### ENTRIES PAST THIS LINE HAVE BEEN PROCESSED FOR GOOD IDEAS #####* - - a simple merge procedure for uploads :: - cure for color blindness :: could it be possible to administer some @@ -1117,21 +1313,21 @@ you could re-use the heat from creating the ice to melt the ice? - 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. + 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. Evidence that this might be possible: + http://science.sciencemag.org/content/334/6061/1413.long - 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. + 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. - 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! + solution with flavor. When the flower turns the right color, it + is also flavored and ready to eat! - 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 diff -r 3547c072c29f -r 7a6b855cfb99 org/immortality-songs.org --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/org/immortality-songs.org Tue Jul 12 21:16:25 2016 -0700 @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +#+Title: Songs about Immortality + +Panda Eyes and Teminite +Immortal Flame +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GByGJqmYBuo&feature=youtu.be + diff -r 3547c072c29f -r 7a6b855cfb99 org/social.org --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/org/social.org Tue Jul 12 21:16:25 2016 -0700 @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +#+Title: Heuristics for productive social interactions + + +If someone asks you "have you ever talked to X", they are thinking +that that person might be helpful to you. Your answer shoud almost +always be "what should I talk to X about?". (desiree) + + +Don't ask people yes/no questions where the "no" answer might be +dissappointing. So for example, asking "did you son accomplish that +before graduating high school?" implies that the no answer means that +the son was "slacking". Ask "how old was your son when he did that?" or +"did your son accomplish that after graduating?". + +In general, avoid binary questions if possible. For example, instead +of asking "Are you married?", ask "What is your home life like?" This +is an important trick that anthropologists use to bridge large social +gaps. The most general version is "what is your story?" + + diff -r 3547c072c29f -r 7a6b855cfb99 org/writing-queue.org --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/org/writing-queue.org Tue Jul 12 21:16:25 2016 -0700 @@ -0,0 +1,158 @@ +* Essay Ideas + + - <<2016-03-14 Mon>> why mind uploading is better and safer than AI :: + can address the idea that the first upload will be slow and still + somewhat a "black box", and then we can safely transition to + faster and faster minds. + + - <<2016-03-14 Mon>> explination of the different meanings of the aurellem sun :: + + - <<2016-03-14 Mon>> mind of the master :: + + +* Post Ideas + + - <<2016-06-12 Sun>> get in the vatican archive :: + + - <<2016-04-25 Mon>> towards goal-oriented speedrunning :: talk + about how we should be using AI to do better speedruns by + assembling together scripts that discover ways to optimally + achieve some goal. + + - <<2016-04-23 Sat>> write about "a soldier's memories" :: + AUTHOR: Younghusband, G. J. + A soldier's memories in peace and war, + CALL NO: DA68.32.Y7 A3 + BARCODE: B000804051 + Main (Gardner) Stacks DUE: 04-23-16 + DATE CHECKED OUT: 03-24-16 04:42PM + + - <<2016-04-07 Thu>> why mind uploading can effectively deter strong AI :: + + - <<2016-04-07 Thu>> why mind uploading works :: + + - <<2016-04-05 Tue>> write about multiple eyes :: The "wide-angle + approximation" as you move the eyes further apart, multiple + cameras, "full covering" etc. + + - <<2016-03-29 Tue>> write about "a soldier's memories" and how the concept of death and war have VERY DRAMATICALLY changed over time :: + + - <<2016-03-15 Tue>> laserkard :: + + - <<2016-03-14 Mon>> sss :: + + - <<2016-03-14 Mon>> somtething else :: + + + +* ZZZ + + +** TODO write "let's burn books" stuff (otherwise we'll run out of library space!) :21CM: + SCHEDULED: <2015-03-02 Mon> + [2015-03-02 Mon 08:30] + +** TODO microscope and telescope sussman :MISC: + SCHEDULED: <2015-03-08 Sun> + [2015-03-08 Sun 11:43] + + +** TODO star trek comments :MISC: + SCHEDULED: <2015-03-10 Tue> + [2015-03-10 Tue 22:48] + + + + + + + +** TODO write "the mind of the master" post :ESSAY: + SCHEDULED: <2015-03-22 Sun> + :PROPERTIES: + :ARCHIVE_TIME: 2015-03-22 Sun 19:08 + :ARCHIVE_FILE: ~/proj/gtd/todo.org + :ARCHIVE_OLPATH: Tasks + :ARCHIVE_CATEGORY: Tasks + :ARCHIVE_TODO: TODO + :END: + [2015-03-22 Sun 17:55] + +** TODO authenticity and the limits of empiricism :ESSAY: + SCHEDULED: <2015-03-25 Wed> + [2015-03-25 Wed 06:59] + +** TODO write "when death entered the world" :ESSAY: + SCHEDULED: <2015-05-03 Sun> + [2015-05-03 Sun 12:11] + + + +** TODO qwrite up password system :ESSAY: + SCHEDULED: <2015-05-03 Sun> + [2015-05-03 Sun 19:59] + + +** TODO write latex gloves, condoms, technology + morality post :ESSAY: + SCHEDULED: <2015-05-18 Mon> + [2015-05-18 Mon 22:36] + + +** TODO write up org-pdf post :MISC: + SCHEDULED: <2015-08-07 Fri> + [2015-08-07 Fri 11:49] + + + +** TODO write "excommunication" :essay: + SCHEDULED: <2015-11-03 Tue> + [2015-09-16 Wed 10:07] + +** TODO write up post about led spiral :MISC: + SCHEDULED: <2015-09-20 Sun> + [2015-09-20 Sun 10:29] + + +** TODO make immortality song list, link to youtube :MISC: + SCHEDULED: <2015-05-28 Thu> + [2015-05-28 Thu 14:56] + + + +** TODO write up griffiths notes :21CM: + SCHEDULED: <2015-11-13 Fri> + [2015-11-13 Fri 09:13] + + +** TODO write up pokemon draft thing :blog: + SCHEDULED: <2015-12-12 Sat> + [2015-12-12 Sat 05:52] + + +** TODO write-up "the server culture" :blog: + SCHEDULED: <2015-12-12 Sat> +[2015-12-12 Sat 06:16] + +** TODO writeup how I do clojure :blog: + SCHEDULED: <2015-12-12 Sat> + [2015-12-12 Sat 06:19] + + +** TODO writeup how to make a mailig list tutorial :proj: + SCHEDULED: <2015-12-17 Thu> + [2015-12-17 Thu 12:21] + + +** TODO lookup http://.*star.*.com :comfort: + SCHEDULED: <2015-12-30 Wed> + [2015-12-30 Wed 16:13] + + +** TODO write "weird pointers" entry :thoughts: + SCHEDULED: <2016-01-08 Fri> + [2016-01-08 Fri 08:51] + + +** TODO write "what doom means to me" :essay: + SCHEDULED: <2016-02-02 Tue> + [2016-02-02 Tue 18:30]