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     2.6  
     2.7 +** Cure for Color Blindness 
     2.8 +
     2.9 +   Could it be possible to administer some retroviruses via direct
    2.10 +   injection to the retina, to cause some of the cells in the retina
    2.11 +   to begin expressing different color pigments? The brain ought to
    2.12 +   easily sort out the rest and enable color vision. Furthremore,
    2.13 +   could we add some more colors to baesline human eyes? Theory --
    2.14 +   people who are color blind have better color spatial accuity for
    2.15 +   the colors they can see, because this it the tradeoff here involved
    2.16 +   with the retrovirus therapy. Re-purposing color detectors to see
    2.17 +   new colors at the expense of spatial acuity for the old set of
    2.18 +   colors.
    2.19 +
    2.20 +** Passion of the Christ Missed Opportunity 
    2.21 + 
    2.22 +   In the Passion of the Christ, they do the entire show using Latin,
    2.23 +   Aramaic, etc, with subtitles. They should have had a part where
    2.24 +   Jesus does the sermon on the mount, he turns to the camera, and
    2.25 +   starts speaking in English, with no subtitles. It would have been
    2.26 +   1.) biblically accurate and 2.) awesome. It would have been such a
    2.27 +   powerful example of Jesus' divinity, and it felt like they were
    2.28 +   setting up for it the entire movie, and they missed it!
    2.29 +   
    2.30 +** Xenobiotic Chimeric Methalation Rewriting
    2.31 +
    2.32 +   You make chimeric sea urchins with human reproductive stem cells,
    2.33 +   so that the sea urchins produce sea urchin like HUMAN sperm and
    2.34 +   eggs. Then you can have two males / females reproduce without the
    2.35 +   methylation problem, by using the sea urchins as intermediades. And
    2.36 +   the normal problems of human chimeras are avoided because the sea
    2.37 +   urchins are too simple. 
    2.38 +
    2.39 +** Physical PGP Signatures
    2.40 +   
    2.41 +   You punch into your phone "I want to sign a contract" It gives you
    2.42 +   a gensym (or you enter a name) like:
    2.43 +   https://contracts.example.com/car-insurance-2015-09-26
    2.44 +   
    2.45 +   Then you sign your name, date, and include the link on the contract
    2.46 +   under "PGP sig". Then you take a picture with your phone and enter
    2.47 +   your signing password. It gets uploaded to your website and the
    2.48 +   image gets PGP signed with your key. Now you have a timestamped
    2.49 +   archive of the contract, and anyone can verify it by looking at the
    2.50 +   physical contract itself! 
    2.51 +
    2.52 +** The Digital Third Eye
    2.53 +
    2.54 +   You wire in a third optical input to the human brain, but it
    2.55 +   doesn't tranduce light form the real world, bus instead is
    2.56 +   connected to the "internet of things" and shows you metadata about
    2.57 +   things you are looking at // serves as an interface to your own
    2.58 +   mind and body. Then eventually simply real things without metadata
    2.59 +   seem flat and fake compared to the objects in cities and other
    2.60 +   annotated areas. This third eye doesn't occupy any of your normal
    2.61 +   visual field but actually EXPANDS your visual field.
    2.62 +
    2.63 +** Ultimate Limits of Monogamy
    2.64 +
    2.65 +   Let's say that you're immortal and monogamous. The longer you live
    2.66 +   with your partner, the more you build an internal model of them,
    2.67 +   and they you. Eventually these models may become complete, and then
    2.68 +   you two are actually one single recursive entity which references
    2.69 +   itself. As you offload more processing to the other (such as old
    2.70 +   couples actually do -- "remember when we were at that place,
    2.71 +   what-was-his-name honey?"), then computationally you are a single
    2.72 +   mind distributed across two bodies. (There's a reason why old
    2.73 +   couples often die as a pair). You might decide to actually merge
    2.74 +   bodies eventually. But then, you were both monogamous, so the
    2.75 +   combined person will be monogamous (and lonely because it lacks a
    2.76 +   partner). So you get married again, rinse, wash, repeat. All the
    2.77 +   monogamous people within a certain "compatability group" eventually
    2.78 +   become one. Our "social center of mass" doesn't lie within our own
    2.79 +   bodies! 
    2.80 +
    2.81 +** Dream Rewinding 
    2.82 +
    2.83 +   How to record a complete dream without disturbing it or modifying
    2.84 +   your brain? you need to be an upload: split yourself, and one of
    2.85 +   you stays awake whike the other sleeps. then you detect a dream in
    2.86 +   progress by monotoring rapid eye movememt in your sleeping self,
    2.87 +   and you wake yourself up every few minutes and tell yoursef about
    2.88 +   the dream. Then sleeping-your restarts the dream, continuation
    2.89 +   passing style, forgetting everything that was just said, and you
    2.90 +   repeat this process until the dream is over. Then awake-you and
    2.91 +   sleeping-you merge each other by taking sleeping-you and replaying
    2.92 +   the memories of awake-you, and you write a final report on the
    2.93 +   dream using the "saccade" reports to jog your memory.
    2.94 +
    2.95 +   It would really let you directly test theories of memory because
    2.96 +   you can test a person every second if you want to. I see a couple
    2.97 +   ways this could play out: you could report a dream that follows a
    2.98 +   linear narrative, with the story advancing a little bit each time
    2.99 +   (the "storytelling" hypothesis), you might say something totally
   2.100 +   different each time (the "garbage memory access" hypothesis), or
   2.101 +   something even weider like where you report exactly the same thing
   2.102 +   between seconds 0-20, then something totally different during
   2.103 +   seconds 20-40, etc.
   2.104 +
   2.105 +** Denser than Osmium
   2.106 +
   2.107 +   Do the "misicibility" thing with an osmium alloy to get something
   2.108 +   even more dense. Basically osmium + something else might be denser
   2.109 +   then pure osmium.
   2.110 +
   2.111 +** AI Hypnosis 
   2.112 +  
   2.113 +   Hypnosis might be good for studying AI, becuse it might probide a
   2.114 +   "debugger" for ananlyzing the human mind. I briefly tried this
   2.115 +   while at MIT, but it needs MUCH more work to be properly
   2.116 +   evaulated. Also, things you can do under hypnosis provide
   2.117 +   constraints on what the mind's capabilities are. Also, hypnosis
   2.118 +   iteslf is a worthwhile thing to study in its own right. 
   2.119 +
   2.120  ** The Ocean Becomes a Drop 
   2.121     Upload faces challenges to grow into the type of person that can
   2.122     join the greater society -- a god. They have to go though quests

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     3.4  getting credit.
     3.5  #+end_quote
     3.6  
     3.7 - - toilet + fume hood ::
     3.8 + - auto book ::handwritten by machine; illuminated. Like old medieval
     3.9 +   books. Use a model of handwriting so the letters are different. 
    3.10  
    3.11 - - wind speed force :: two wind socks one weighted
    3.12 + - url resolver :: pick the longest vaid url that's a rooted substring
    3.13 +      of the requested URL. unambigupously corrects for links that
    3.14 +      have things like periods and ending parens at the end of a link.
    3.15 +
    3.16 + - soul black marble :: for existential threats, what if solu magic
    3.17 +      was true, and undertale whatever, destroy the world
    3.18 +
    3.19 + - heart preservation + heart bypass to allow time for healing :: you
    3.20 +      cryopreserve a heart, then "recondition" it inside the patient
    3.21 +      while under bypass to allow time for it to heal. 
    3.22 +
    3.23 + - intelligent microwave osmium perfusion w/ CAT scan ::
    3.24 +
    3.25 + - assembling new word-sounding words by concatenation and random deletion ::
    3.26 +
    3.27 + - amber brain preservation? :: would this work, without having to do
    3.28 +      the heavy metal bits? Maybe chemical fixation with aldehydes
    3.29 +      followed by hot amber and then high pressure for several months?
    3.30 +
    3.31 + - zappy fat ::
    3.32 +
    3.33 + - electrocaloric effect :: see
    3.34 +      https://dx.doi.org/10.1146%2Fannurev-matsci-062910-100341,
    3.35 +      [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocaloric_effect][wikipedia article]]
    3.36 +
    3.37 + - albino fruit ::
    3.38 +
    3.39 + - cryoprotectant that increases the nutritional value fo food ::
    3.40 +
    3.41 + - faucet enerty :: how much power do you get from an average faucet
    3.42 +      compared to the wall socket?
    3.43 +
    3.44 + - high pressure fixation :: could this defeat the "myelin unraveling"
    3.45 +      problem? Maybe -- if the "unraveling" is actually BUBBLES like
    3.46 +      you might get during the bends, caused by the fixation reaction!
    3.47 +
    3.48 + - eat fixed tissue :: can you EAT glutaraldehyde preserved tissue, if
    3.49 +      you wash away all the free aldehydes and make sure that the
    3.50 +      reaction is complete? Can you also cook the tissue? Maybe it
    3.51 +      would be good!
    3.52 +
    3.53 + - intelligence sorting ::
    3.54 +
    3.55 + - hyperbaric fixation :: apparently with divers with the "bends", you
    3.56 +      get bubbles in the myelin in particular. Maybe hyperbaric
    3.57 +      fixation would be able to eliminate these bubbles!
    3.58 +
    3.59 + - blood + cryoprotectant :: might be more gentle than normal things?
    3.60 +      Why not use it? (b/c you might need extracellular ion
    3.61 +      concentrations), also zeta potentials! But you could filter the
    3.62 +      blood, and get a lot from a slaughterhouse perhaps.
    3.63 +
    3.64 + - the matrix has a "lord of space" and a "muse of time" ::
    3.65 +
    3.66 + - ultra fast fluorocarbon cooling :: perfuse brain w/ cryoprotectant,
    3.67 +      cool to -20°C. Then clear out everything w/ fluorocarbon (or
    3.68 +      something else that doesn't interact w/ cells and has very low
    3.69 +      viscosoty at low temperatures), and then immediately switch to
    3.70 +      fluorocarbon at around -135°C. Should very quickly cool the
    3.71 +      brain (even faster than persufflation!) and would also avoid the
    3.72 +      dehydration problems associated w/ persufflation. Even better,
    3.73 +      you have a mechanism for rapidly warming the brain --
    3.74 +      immediately switch to warm fluorocarbon. Everything is always
    3.75 +      still liquid and pressurized. Should buy you a couple % decrease
    3.76 +      in CPA toxicity.
    3.77 +
    3.78 + - gameboy IR link over wifi through emilation ::
    3.79 +
    3.80 + - living memory is the start of history :: the natural dividing line
    3.81 +      is between living and dead history, and is created retroactively
    3.82 +      with the advent of brain preservation technology and then
    3.83 +      realized by mind uploading. It can still creep forward from
    3.84 +      death of individuals. We're still living in pre-history!
    3.85 +
    3.86 + - the memory of God is the soul :: mind-uploading + christian
    3.87 +      theology ==> the soul falls out nicely from omniscience. 
    3.88 +
    3.89 + - alternating stir plate :: a magnetic stir bar that alternates back
    3.90 +      and forth. Is it more efficient?
    3.91 +
    3.92 + - rsync with md5 (or whatever) database :: Now if you're rsync'ing
    3.93 +      something over to the server, if the file matches something
    3.94 +      already on the server, then it gets copied over from wherever it
    3.95 +      is on the server (then each block's signature is checked like
    3.96 +      with normal rsync, so that you get exactly the same behaviour).
    3.97 +
    3.98 + - mvln :: uses a backing database to gaurantee that when you move a
    3.99 +      folder, that all the links that point to it can remain
   3.100 +      consistent across your system.
   3.101 +
   3.102 + - centrifugal drinking :: spin the bottle around and tubes from the
   3.103 +      bottom convey drink up to the top. (don't know why I came up
   3.104 +      with this one...)
   3.105 +
   3.106 + - DRACOS at single cell stage :: you splice the genes for DRACOS into
   3.107 +      a single human cell at the first stage of development. Then all
   3.108 +      the cells of the person that cell will eventually become will
   3.109 +      automatically produce DRACOS (and the DRACOS will be recognized
   3.110 +      as "self" by the immune system. This creates a powerful
   3.111 +      secondary immune system which will make the person immune to
   3.112 +      almost all viruses. 
   3.113 +
   3.114 + - toilet + fume hood :: because it's dumb to have the entire bathroom
   3.115 +      be a sort of fume hood.
   3.116 +
   3.117 + - wind speed force :: two wind socks one weighted. The angle between
   3.118 +      them tells you the force of the wind.
   3.119  
   3.120   - sshfs to mount root :: you can mount your own root filesystem
   3.121        somewhere else using sshfs. Sort of "normalizes" file
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   3.123        sshfs root@localhost:/ my-root
   3.124        #+END_SRC
   3.125  
   3.126 - - not even a nop of damage ::
   3.127 +- not even a nop of damage :: nop == no-op
   3.128  
   3.129  - twittwe vibratoe ::
   3.130  
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   3.132  
   3.133  - open source contributions :: way to make them public on your website easily.
   3.134  
   3.135 -- active opto-glove :: for ENHANCED touch!
   3.136 +- active opto-glove :: for ENHANCED touch! It's a magnyfing glass for
   3.137 +     your fingers!
   3.138  
   3.139  - glove screen :: for driving directions, etc. Better than a watch!
   3.140  
   3.141 -- osmium + sugar as a histo stain ::
   3.142 +- osmium + sugar as a histo stain :: the suger interacts with the
   3.143 +     osmium and retards its progress. you can see details on slices in
   3.144 +     a light microscope without any more staining, and the EMs are not
   3.145 +     adversely affected. 
   3.146  
   3.147 -- encryption camera :: use public key on memory card
   3.148 +- encryption camera :: use public key on memory card. The camera
   3.149 +     writes files encrypted with this public key.
   3.150  
   3.151  - immaculate AIDS acquisition ::
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   3.154  - edible crayons ::
   3.155  
   3.156  - library chaining ::
   3.157 -
   3.158 + 
   3.159  - hypnosis + that drug that makes you loose continuity :: can the
   3.160       hypnosos plant things during this time?
   3.161  
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   3.163       fixed during "sleep" mode  and those fixed during "awake"
   3.164       mode. (while still using anesthetic of course).
   3.165  
   3.166 -- shit flavored dog treats ::
   3.167 +- shit flavored dog treats :: because dogs would probably like them. 
   3.168  
   3.169  - fume hood incense :: so make sure the fume hood is working
   3.170  
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   3.172       the cells in the retina to begin expressing different color
   3.173       pigments? The brain ought to easily sort out the rest and enable
   3.174       color vision. Furthremore, could we add some more colors to
   3.175 -     baesline human eyes?
   3.176 +     baesline human eyes? Theory -- people who are color blind have
   3.177 +     better color spatial accuity for the colors they can see, because
   3.178 +     this it the tradeoff here involved with the retrovirus
   3.179 +     therapy. Re-purposing color detectors to see new colors at the
   3.180 +     expense of spatial acuity for the old set of colors.
   3.181  
   3.182  - mental integrity test :: if your brain starts to decay, you might
   3.183       not notice the damage until it's too late. This would be a mental

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     4.4  
     4.5    - Back up your personal files to your server.
     4.6  
     4.7 -  - Email lists -- where you can manage lists like at MIT, and people
     4.8 -    can add themselves, etc.
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     5.4 +
     5.5 +* Human by the killers 
     5.6 +  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIZdjT1472Y
     5.7 +
     5.8 +* Land before time
     5.9 +
    5.10 +* Danny boy by eva cassidy
    5.11 +  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSKM0YiU8LU
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