Mercurial > thoughts
changeset 160:23d205b9854e
more ideas.
author | Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> |
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date | Mon, 22 Feb 2016 17:00:02 -0800 |
parents | ba80a6a67b55 |
children | 8f44e4061701 |
files | org/ideas.org org/my-greatest-fear.org |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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1.1 --- a/org/ideas.org Sat Jan 30 11:49:46 2016 -0800 1.2 +++ b/org/ideas.org Mon Feb 22 17:00:02 2016 -0800 1.3 @@ -19,6 +19,44 @@ 1.4 getting credit. 1.5 #+end_quote 1.6 1.7 + - blockchain based experential memory :: 1.8 + 1.9 + - a hidden world of early life :: I imagine that the bridge form the 1.10 + first life forms to even very simple single celled organisms was 1.11 + probably very interesting and a lot more diverse than we give it 1.12 + credit for. Unfortunately, I doubt that we're going to find any 1.13 + good evidence for such creatures, since they don't seem like the 1.14 + type of organisms that would preserve well. All sorts of really 1.15 + neat delf replicating molecules and assemblies of molecules, and 1.16 + we'd have no record of any of them. The only way to get an idea 1.17 + of these types of life will be to make them again in the lab. 1.18 + 1.19 + - brain insurance :: for the preserved brain 1.20 + 1.21 + - remote control ants / pidgeons :: train/evolve them to want to 1.22 + follow an EM gradient or magnetic field. put a camera on. 1.23 + 1.24 + - musical neural inversion :: get a simple model of emotional and 1.25 + auditory circuits, "invert" the model based on sound input, and 1.26 + generate music with constrating satisfaction. Might find some 1.27 + music that's simultaneously "alien" (lacking a top-down design) 1.28 + yet still deeply emotionally coherent and satisfying. 1.29 + 1.30 + - simulated fire :: for those who say that simulated water can't get 1.31 + you wet, just see what happens if you attach your nerves to 1.32 + simulated output of FIRE. I gaurantee you're going to have a bad 1.33 + time. 1.34 + 1.35 + - use lasers to cut large plasticized brains :: 1.36 + 1.37 + - gravity telescope the size of the solar system :: 1.38 + 1.39 + - information bearing layer :: to find the spatial / logical scale of 1.40 + the main information containing layer of an information storage 1.41 + device, look at where correlated change happens, and then to see 1.42 + if it's digital, look beyond that and see if the changes are 1.43 + uncorrelated. 1.44 + 1.45 - sperm fitness correlation :: it's evolutionary advantageous for a 1.46 species' sperm to fail to function exactly when the fetus they 1.47 would create would fail. But it's really hard to make this
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