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     2.6  
     2.7 +** copper + ethylene glycol 
     2.8 +   If red blood cells are rendered impermeabale to EG when Cu is
     2.9 +   present, then maybe you can destroy RBCs by a mixture of EG and Cu?
    2.10 +   (By osmotically crushing them?)
    2.11  
    2.12 +** Qualia Intuition Explained
    2.13 +   Let's say that you lacked the sense of smell. How could you learn
    2.14 +   what "acrid" means without it? How could you explain it to someone,
    2.15 +   without analogy to other smells? It's true that linguistically,
    2.16 +   there's no way to communicate thsi concept to someone who can't
    2.17 +   smell. We mind-project this real linguistic separation into reality
    2.18 +   and get qualia, thinking that because it's beyond the reach of
    2.19 +   language it's also beyond physical reality as well!
    2.20  
    2.21 +** Spinal Relay 
    2.22 +   You have a small air-gapped repeater built into your spine in order
    2.23 +   to help with spinal injury, connect with prosthetics, and to
    2.24 +   monitor/control your body. Also, you could add the ability to save
    2.25 +   "macros"! Would want to also pair with suitable encryption!
    2.26 +
    2.27 +** Human Cysts
    2.28 +   There should be communities of people with varying enforced
    2.29 +   separations from the rest of society in order to gaurd against
    2.30 +   various catastrophies.
    2.31 +
    2.32 +** Bioelectric Synthesis 
    2.33 +   Have a device which stores a lot of energy, and processes blood by
    2.34 +   creating sugar from waste produces over the day. You still need
    2.35 +   water, vitamins, minerals, etc, but this can handle the bulk of
    2.36 +   your energy demands and be recharged from the wall.
    2.37 +
    2.38 +** Chelation as a Method to Improve Cryoprotectant Permeability
    2.39 +   Copper (and potentially other metallic ions) can reduce
    2.40 +   cryoprotectant permeability, so chelation might help to make them
    2.41 +   more permeable. Perhaps this could be why dog brains are more
    2.42 +   premeable to glycerol than most other animals?
    2.43 +
    2.44 +** Transgender Fruit Analogy
    2.45 +   A tomato is a fruit but its a vegetable inside.
    2.46 +
    2.47 +** Video Game Controllers as Actual Controllers 
    2.48 +   Console controlers like the n64 trident are excellent, durable
    2.49 +   tools for fine control. We should use them to control all sorts of
    2.50 +   things like robots by default. You should use it for your projects,
    2.51 +   since it's unlikely you'll be able to come up with something
    2.52 +   better. Compared to console controllers, the ones we use for
    2.53 +   robots/RC stuff are hopelessly clunky.
    2.54 +
    2.55 +** Bubble Computers
    2.56 +   Bubbles and water droplets moving from place to place are great
    2.57 +   analoges for "holes" in transistors. You could totally build a
    2.58 +   computer with nonlinear bubble accumulators.
    2.59 +
    2.60 +** Dark Blood Bag
    2.61 +   Blood bags in hospitals should be dark colored to protect the blood
    2.62 +   from damage from light.
    2.63 +
    2.64 +** Chimeric double-male double-female organism
    2.65 +   Chimeric organism with XX and XX patterns from two males and two
    2.66 +   females. On average, it has the correct methylation pattern. Would
    2.67 +   it work? Could half of the cells then be programmed to die at a
    2.68 +   later stage after the organism has "bootstrapped"?
    2.69 +
    2.70 +** Fixed protein packets as drug delivery mechanism
    2.71 +   Group of fixed proteins in a network which is used as
    2.72 +   medicine. Hemoglobin, for false blood, maybe?
    2.73 +
    2.74 +** Proof of the Afterlife
    2.75 +   Website where you enter your pgp signed encrypted file, then swear
    2.76 +   by all the gods that you'll haunt me (Robert McIntyre) with the
    2.77 +   decryption password when you die, along with whatever other
    2.78 +   messages you have. protocol -- I video, throw rock (to prove you're
    2.79 +   not just faking), get password. Like James Randi's prize.
    2.80 +
    2.81 +** Medieval name for ethylene glycol
    2.82 +   Icebane
    2.83 +
    2.84 +** Overflow Hikau
    2.85 +    A hiku about buffer overflows, with garbage C code inside.
    2.86 +
    2.87 +** The White Knight
    2.88 +   The son of a nobleman and steeped in the knightly tradition since
    2.89 +   birth, he rides across the land with his family greatsword,
    2.90 +   "Privilege", defending the principles of chivalry, and his codes of
    2.91 +   honor.
    2.92 +   
    2.93 +   WHITE KNIGHT: (*rides up to a peasant on his magnificent white
    2.94 +   stallion*) Hold, Peasant! You would eat bread while sitting on the
    2.95 +   ground? Where is your honor, that you would not eat like a man,
    2.96 +   sitting at the dinner table?
    2.97 +   
    2.98 +   Peasant: I haven't /got/ any dinner table...
    2.99 +
   2.100 +   WHITE KNIGHT: (*decapitates peasant with Privlege, without even
   2.101 +   dismounting from his horse*) Another day spent defending the honor
   2.102 +   of everyone!
   2.103 +
   2.104 +   Basically, the White Knight is /such/ an asshole.
   2.105 +
   2.106 +** Technological Deflation
   2.107 +   Even the richest robber baron from the 1920's could not afford a
   2.108 +   cardiac bypass surgery, even with literally all the money they
   2.109 +   had. As technology advances, the price of bread may go up, but the
   2.110 +   capabilities which money gives you also dramatically increase.
   2.111 +
   2.112 +** Mental Integrity Test
   2.113 +   If your brain starts to decay, you might not notice the damage
   2.114 +   until it's too late. This would be a mental integrity test that you
   2.115 +   take every few weeks that measures your performance and compares it
   2.116 +   to a baseline. The tests are all designed to catch the early signs
   2.117 +   of degenerative brain diseases. For example, you might use
   2.118 +   performamce on a smell-memory assoaction test to detect early-onset
   2.119 +   Alzheimer's.
   2.120 +
   2.121 +** Mind Bank
   2.122 +   This is a brain bank that has brains well-enough preserved that the
   2.123 +   minds inside are still viable.   
   2.124 +
   2.125 +** Online paper reviews for scientific papers
   2.126 +   This really needs to be a thing and would be great for the
   2.127 +   scientific community. I want an online thing like yelp or something
   2.128 +   that lets you comment on scientific papers and rate them for
   2.129 +   clairty, etc.
   2.130 +
   2.131 +** Binary-Continuous Feedback
   2.132 +   I was fascinated by a soda machine that shut itself off by filling
   2.133 +   a carefully balanced cup, which fell away from the fill-switch once
   2.134 +   the cup had become heavy enough. Makes me think of minsky's
   2.135 +   "ultimate machine" or Dylan's autosearch engine.
   2.136 +
   2.137 +** Trolley Cryonics 
   2.138 +   According to the book "Moral Tribes", people can more rationally
   2.139 +   think about death when it exists in a "non-primary action
   2.140 +   path". Perhaps this could be a good way to explain cryonics / organ
   2.141 +   donation? 
   2.142 +
   2.143 +** Binary Metric
   2.144 +   You make up new unit names for "2 centimeters", "4 centimeters",
   2.145 +   "16 centimeters", as well as "1/2 centimeters", "1/4 centimeters",
   2.146 +   etc. Names might be duocentimeter, quatrocentimeter,
   2.147 +   hemidemisemiliter, etc. Then no one will be happy!  BUT, it helps
   2.148 +   solve metric's problem of intermediate units. (a centimeter is too
   2.149 +   small, a meter is too large!)
   2.150 +   
   2.151  ** A simple merge procedure for uploads
   2.152     Putting aside the philosophical problems around mind-uploading for
   2.153     a moment, imagine that you were /already/ a computer program

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     3.4  getting credit.
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     3.6  
     3.7 + - I just had sex spinal tap <<2016-07-12 Tue>> :: measure signals
     3.8 +      coming from your spinal cord to detect orgasm w/ machine
     3.9 +      learning. Then your fucking app can post to facebook
    3.10 +      automatically saying "I just had sex".
    3.11 +
    3.12 + - a billion years of suffering, finally quieted by a noble oil spill <<2016-07-11 Mon>> ::
    3.13 +
    3.14 + - pig egg extraction  <<2016-07-10 Sun>> :: put human stem cells into
    3.15 +      a pig embryo, get the pig to grow human eggs / human
    3.16 +      reproductive systems, use the pig as an artificial womb. Also
    3.17 +      can get high quality <5 year old eggs from post memopausal women
    3.18 +      bu making their stem cells grow new eggs. In general, we should
    3.19 +      do a lot more transgenic xenobiologu!
    3.20 +
    3.21 + - cortex-doubling <<2016-06-26 Sun>> :: could we do something like
    3.22 +      the cortex-transplanting experiments except with an aim to
    3.23 +      greatly increase the size of the brain's cortex-- take a whole
    3.24 +      cortex from one embryo and just "shove it in" to the other
    3.25 +      animal? 
    3.26 +
    3.27 + - use optical methods to scan in a vynl recored <<2016-06-26 Sun>> ::
    3.28 +
    3.29 + - chilled cubes of quartz instead of ice to cool down a drink
    3.30 +      <<2016-06-22 Wed>> :: or troll people with lukewarm "ice"
    3.31 +   water. Aristotle said that quartz was permementaly frozen ice, why
    3.32 +   not take advantage. And why didn't Aristotle invent child
    3.33 +   psychology? 
    3.34 +
    3.35 + - seedless fruits <<2016-06-22 Wed>> :: could we make sedless fruits
    3.36 +      by breeding for increasingly /asymettric/ seed distribution?
    3.37 +      That way, we could breed until the seeds are on the surface of
    3.38 +      the fruit, then untill they're at the stem, then until they're
    3.39 +      off on their own branch near the fruit. could be cool!
    3.40 +
    3.41 + - can dogs hear our muscles contracting? <<2016-06-22 Wed>> ::
    3.42 +      muscles make an infrasonice sound when they contarct. In
    3.43 +      general, might this be an unintended side channel when it comes
    3.44 +      to animal experiments.
    3.45 +
    3.46 + - authenticity and responsibility display similar mental glitches
    3.47 +      <<2016-06-21 Tue>> :: oh, you mirdered someone by presing a
    3.48 +   button-- then you're not repossible. If you print out an artwork,
    3.49 +   then it's not "authentic". In both cases we take the requirement
    3.50 +   for hands to be involved too far and cant't see through a layer of
    3.51 +   indirection 
    3.52 +
    3.53 + - better fixatives with aldehyde dehydrogenaze inhibitors?
    3.54 +      <<2016-06-20 Mon>> :: the idea is to disable the aldehyde
    3.55 +   dehydrogenaze enzymes that might react with aldehydes and retart
    3.56 +   progress. This might be irrelevant given how many fixative
    3.57 +   molucules might be used during fixation, but these systems might be
    3.58 +   coupled with negative downstream effects? See
    3.59 +   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldehyde_dehydrogenase for more details.
    3.60 +
    3.61 + - batch multiple credit card transactions for a coffee shop
    3.62 +      <<2016-06-19 Sun>> :: if you get a foffee, then get another
    3.63 +   thing later on the same credit card, then the coffee shop should
    3.64 +   batch these transactions together at the end of the day to avoid
    3.65 +   multiple fees.
    3.66 +
    3.67 + - a man has to have balls to cut off his own balls <<2016-06-17 Fri>> ::
    3.68 +
    3.69 + - kerning art <<2016-06-16 Thu>> :: an extention to LaTeX that puts
    3.70 +      really subtle smiley facse and shit into the whitespacing of a document
    3.71 +
    3.72 + - glare analysis <<2016-06-15 Wed>> :: take a computer model of a
    3.73 +      building, use ray-tracing to simulate there light goes during
    3.74 +      different times of the day, and see if the light will bother
    3.75 +      anyone in "standard" positions, such as desks, counters, etc.
    3.76 +
    3.77 + - almost-silent whispers in the brain  <<2016-06-14 Tue>> :: a set of
    3.78 +      silent synapses are triggered in such a way to create a wealth
    3.79 +      of important memories, none of which are accessable to the person!
    3.80 +
    3.81 + - jumping forward in time, by changing your brain
    3.82 +      <<2016-06-11 Sat>> :: and also, the state-space evolution of a
    3.83 +   brain has loops, etc
    3.84 +
    3.85 + - "draw your own computer" -- an MIT IAP class <<2016-06-11 Sat>> ::
    3.86 +      you take an 8.5x11 sheet of paper and draw out a simple CPU on
    3.87 +      it (with connections for a decent RAM chip, and two serial
    3.88 +      ports). You'd use a fine pen and a magnifying glass, draw from a
    3.89 +      template, and the class would go over the circuits you're
    3.90 +      drawing as you draw them. Then you do some VERY BASIC
    3.91 +      photolithography to make it real! Then you write in a nice game
    3.92 +      of ZORK or something! Possibly this could be a two-three day
    3.93 +      class depending on how complicated the drawing has to be. 
    3.94 +
    3.95 + - knife with gallium core and M&M resin on the outside
    3.96 +      <<2016-06-10 Fri>> :: "melts in your enemies' guts, not your
    3.97 +   scabbard" 
    3.98 +
    3.99 + - pizza lathe printer <<2016-06-09 Thu>> :: spin pizza, apply
   3.100 +      toppings. make it be intriciate. like a tomato sauce
   3.101 +      spirograph. "spirograph pizza"
   3.102 +
   3.103 + - "conception" of memory <<2016-06-09 Thu>> :: this is almost a
   3.104 +      kabbalistic mystery, that the molecules used in conception might
   3.105 +      be the same used to conceive a memory: from Kadell: In Xenopus oocytes, maternal RNA is silent until activated by the
   3.106 +cytoplas- mic polyadenylation element binding protein (CPEB) (Richter
   3.107 +1999). In Aplysia a new iso- form of CPEB (ApCPEB) with novel
   3.108 +properties was found in neurons. Blocking this isoform at a marked
   3.109 +(active) synapse prevented the main- tenance but not the initiation of
   3.110 +long-term syn- aptic facilitation (Si et al. 2003a,b).
   3.111 +
   3.112 + - mind erasure, all cells live <<2016-06-09 Thu>> :: trypsin in the
   3.113 +      brain -- dissociate neurons without killing them. 
   3.114 +
   3.115 + - delicate flavors pumped through your blood and into your tounge and
   3.116 +      organs <<2016-06-08 Wed>> :: the infinite snack pump
   3.117 +
   3.118 + - imagemagick converter for ffmpeg <<2016-06-07 Tue>> :: make it so
   3.119 +      that you can execute any imagemagick command on every frame of a
   3.120 +      video by using ffmpeg.
   3.121 +
   3.122 + - dyln duel decks -- elbows vs. NO <<2016-06-04 Sat>> ::
   3.123 +
   3.124 + - knife garnish <<2016-06-04 Sat>> ::
   3.125 +
   3.126 + - the "easy" and "hard" problems of mathematics <<2016-06-02 Thu>> ::
   3.127 +      the "easy" problem is to jsut do things like prove the rieman
   3.128 +      hypothesis. The "hard" problem is to show why 2 /is/ 2 and not
   3.129 +      some other number, and what makes /this/ 2 different form
   3.130 +      /that/ 2. You know, to really /explain/ it.
   3.131 +
   3.132 + - naming convention for marriage <<2016-05-25 Wed>> :: hyphenate your
   3.133 +      names with a new family last name, then the kids just get the
   3.134 +      family name. Then other people can call you "Mr. family-name",
   3.135 +      etc. By Dylan Holmes.
   3.136 +
   3.137 + - light of the mind <<2016-05-23 Mon>> :: a researcher is
   3.138 +      experimenting with transgenic viruses to do optogenetic
   3.139 +      experiments, accidentally infects himself. Then from then on,
   3.140 +      his neurons actually glow with light inside his skull. 
   3.141 +
   3.142 + - microwaves to accelerate cryoprotectant uptake
   3.143 +  <<2016-05-21 Sat>> :: works for osmium during embedding, so why not
   3.144 +  for cryoprotectants?
   3.145 +
   3.146 + - breed very small dogs, bats, mice, etc <<2016-05-21 Sat>> :: for
   3.147 +      neuroscience research. I wonder how many generations it would
   3.148 +      take to surpass the 2g limit of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitti's_hog-nosed_bat][bumblebe bats]]? Then the
   3.149 +      reduced species would be ideal for whole-brain scanning.
   3.150 +      Depending on the tech curves, it may indeed be more feasible to
   3.151 +      start with something like an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_shrew][Etruscan shrew]], bred it for 100
   3.152 +      generations to be a quarter of the size, and then proceed with
   3.153 +      brain scanning, rather than starting directly!
   3.154 +
   3.155 + - sun dogs at the final stand <<2016-05-21 Sat>> :: "It was always a
   3.156 +      one way trip," said the Hero of the Sun. The rest of the heros
   3.157 +      could only watch as he made his final stand. Amidst the dark,
   3.158 +      icy gloom, he summoned one last powerful bit of sun-magic,
   3.159 +      sacrificing himself to hold back the forces of darkness. From
   3.160 +      hundreds of miles away, the sky brightened with an artificial
   3.161 +      dawn, and the sky shown with the hero's name:
   3.162 +      [[../images/star-artic.jpg]].
   3.163 + 
   3.164 +      With [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g53zcpaXT8o&t=21m23s][this]] playing in the background.
   3.165 +
   3.166 + - space elevator based on string <<2016-05-20 Fri>> :: You have a
   3.167 +      small dumb robot that walks up and down strings while carrying
   3.168 +      something. You launch a "spider" robot from a satelite with a
   3.169 +      bunch of string, tethering one end on earth and one end in
   3.170 +      grosynchronus orbit. Then you successively make the string
   3.171 +      bigger. 
   3.172 +
   3.173 + - lavender oats -- oatmeal w/ tea -- turns out it doesn't work all that well <<2016-05-17 Tue>> ::
   3.174 +
   3.175 + - all the atoms in a head, all the stories that can be <<2016-05-17 Tue>> ::
   3.176 +
   3.177 + - boltzman brain april fools <<2016-05-17 Tue>> ::
   3.178 +
   3.179 + - exochemotherapy <<2016-05-16 Mon>> :: let's say you have lung
   3.180 +      cancer, or some other cancer you might need to treat with
   3.181 +      radiation. Perhaps it could be good to remove the organ from the
   3.182 +      body (while still having it attached), and apply radiatio, etc.
   3.183 +
   3.184 + - glutaraldehyde as biological glue to bind implants <<2016-04-28 Thu>> ::
   3.185 +
   3.186 + - the blank lonliness of singularity <<2016-04-28 Thu>> :: I think
   3.187 +      that at least for me, I've always been missing the important
   3.188 +      spiritual aspect of /duality/. /Duality/ here means that you
   3.189 +      exist as two or more copies at the same time. There so much I
   3.190 +      want to focus on, especilly the orthogonal worlds of science and
   3.191 +      society, that my natural state of orginazation would be to
   3.192 +      /both/ hole myself up in a lab and work on discovering truth,
   3.193 +      AND work on talking with peopls and making a great network of
   3.194 +      friends. I want to be able to really talk with myself!
   3.195 +
   3.196 + - low voltage em imaging + fib sem directly of ASC brains <<2016-04-25 Mon>> ::
   3.197 +
   3.198 + - dildo-shaped earplugs <<2016-04-25 Mon>> :: just put dicks in both
   3.199 +      your ears. Make them double ended. In general, use earplugs as a
   3.200 +      platform for making neat things mounted to your ears, like foam
   3.201 +      flowers or ribbons or whatever. 
   3.202 +
   3.203   - ASC as a police evidence preservation technique <<2016-04-18 Mon>> ::
   3.204  
   3.205   - multi metal fixation w/ formamide <<2016-04-18 Mon>> :: osmium
   3.206 @@ -622,6 +818,8 @@
   3.207        present, then maybe you can destroy RBCs by a mixture of EG and
   3.208        Cu? 
   3.209  
   3.210 + - *##### ENTRIES PAST THIS LINE HAVE BEEN PROCESSED FOR GOOD IDEAS #####*
   3.211 +
   3.212   - qualia intuition explained :: let's say that you lacked the sense of
   3.213        smell. How could you learn what "acrid" means without it. How
   3.214        could you explain it to someone, without analogy to other
   3.215 @@ -706,7 +904,7 @@
   3.216  
   3.217   - scientist online paper reviews ::
   3.218  
   3.219 - - binary feedback ::like with the soda machine
   3.220 + - binary feedback :: like with the soda machine
   3.221  
   3.222   - trolley cryonics :: change the cryonics protocol around so that the
   3.223        death occurs in a non-primary action loop.
   3.224 @@ -718,8 +916,6 @@
   3.225  
   3.226   - do it once -- upload ::
   3.227  
   3.228 - - *##### ENTRIES PAST THIS LINE HAVE BEEN PROCESSED FOR GOOD IDEAS #####*
   3.229 -
   3.230   - a simple merge procedure for uploads ::
   3.231  
   3.232   - cure for color blindness :: could it be possible to administer some
   3.233 @@ -1117,21 +1313,21 @@
   3.234        you could re-use the heat from creating the ice to melt the ice?
   3.235  
   3.236   - ultra strength :: allow a person to visualize their muscle
   3.237 -                     recruitment patterns. Give them adrenaline and let
   3.238 -                     them feel what it's like to have the normal limits
   3.239 -                     removed. See if they can replicate the effects.
   3.240 +      recruitment patterns. Give them adrenaline and let them feel
   3.241 +      what it's like to have the normal limits removed. See if they
   3.242 +      can replicate the effects. Evidence that this might be possible:
   3.243 +      http://science.sciencemag.org/content/334/6061/1413.long
   3.244  
   3.245   - phone names :: make a PX record for domain names that's like the MX
   3.246 -                  record, except that it is a phone number instead of
   3.247 -                  an IP address. That way, you can use the domain name
   3.248 -                  registration system to provide names for phone
   3.249 -                  numbers. Then, as long as you control the domain, you
   3.250 -                  can point people to your current phone number by
   3.251 -                  updating that record. 
   3.252 +      record, except that it is a phone number instead of an IP
   3.253 +      address. That way, you can use the domain name registration
   3.254 +      system to provide names for phone numbers. Then, as long as you
   3.255 +      control the domain, you can point people to your current phone
   3.256 +      number by updating that record.
   3.257  
   3.258   - edible flowers :: Edible white flowers that you put in a colored
   3.259 -                     solution with flavor. When the flower turns the
   3.260 -                     right color, it is also flavored and ready to eat! 
   3.261 +      solution with flavor. When the flower turns the right color, it
   3.262 +      is also flavored and ready to eat!
   3.263  
   3.264   - suicide cryonics :: according to [[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/magazine/06suicide-t.html][this]], people who commit impulsive
   3.265        suicides have a newfound sense of the importance of life. Perhaps

     4.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
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     4.3 @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
     4.4 +#+Title: Songs about Immortality
     4.5 +
     4.6 +Panda Eyes and Teminite 
     4.7 +Immortal Flame
     4.8 +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GByGJqmYBuo&feature=youtu.be
     4.9 +

     5.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
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     5.3 @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
     5.4 +#+Title: Heuristics for productive social interactions
     5.5 +
     5.6 +
     5.7 +If someone asks you "have you ever talked to X", they are thinking
     5.8 +that that person might be helpful to you. Your answer shoud almost
     5.9 +always be "what should I talk to X about?". (desiree)
    5.10 +
    5.11 +
    5.12 +Don't ask people yes/no questions where the "no" answer might be
    5.13 +dissappointing. So for example, asking "did you son accomplish that
    5.14 +before graduating high school?" implies that the no answer means that
    5.15 +the son was "slacking". Ask "how old was your son when he did that?" or
    5.16 +"did your son accomplish that after graduating?".
    5.17 +
    5.18 +In general, avoid binary questions if possible. For example, instead
    5.19 +of asking "Are you married?", ask "What is your home life like?" This
    5.20 +is an important trick that anthropologists use to bridge large social
    5.21 +gaps. The most general version is "what is your story?"
    5.22 +
    5.23 +

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     6.4 +* Essay Ideas
     6.5 +
     6.6 +  - <<2016-03-14 Mon>> why mind uploading is better and safer than  AI ::
     6.7 +     can address the idea that the first upload will be slow and still
     6.8 +       somewhat a "black box", and then we can safely transition to
     6.9 +       faster and faster minds.
    6.10 +
    6.11 +  - <<2016-03-14 Mon>> explination of the different meanings of the aurellem sun ::
    6.12 +
    6.13 +  - <<2016-03-14 Mon>> mind of the master ::
    6.14 +
    6.15 +
    6.16 +* Post Ideas
    6.17 +
    6.18 +  - <<2016-06-12 Sun>> get in the vatican archive ::
    6.19 +
    6.20 +  - <<2016-04-25 Mon>> towards goal-oriented speedrunning :: talk
    6.21 +       about how we should be using AI to do better speedruns by
    6.22 +       assembling together scripts that discover ways to optimally
    6.23 +       achieve some goal.
    6.24 +
    6.25 +  - <<2016-04-23 Sat>> write about "a soldier's memories" :: 
    6.26 +   AUTHOR:  Younghusband, G. J.
    6.27 +   A soldier's memories in peace and war,
    6.28 +   CALL NO: DA68.32.Y7 A3
    6.29 +   BARCODE: B000804051
    6.30 +   Main (Gardner) Stacks DUE: 04-23-16
    6.31 +   DATE CHECKED OUT: 03-24-16 04:42PM
    6.32 +
    6.33 +  - <<2016-04-07 Thu>> why mind uploading can effectively deter strong AI ::
    6.34 +
    6.35 +  - <<2016-04-07 Thu>> why mind uploading works ::
    6.36 +
    6.37 +  - <<2016-04-05 Tue>> write about multiple eyes :: The "wide-angle
    6.38 +       approximation" as you move the eyes further apart, multiple
    6.39 +       cameras, "full covering" etc.
    6.40 +
    6.41 +  - <<2016-03-29 Tue>> write about "a soldier's memories" and how the concept of death and war have VERY DRAMATICALLY changed over time ::
    6.42 +
    6.43 +  - <<2016-03-15 Tue>> laserkard ::
    6.44 +
    6.45 +  - <<2016-03-14 Mon>> sss ::
    6.46 +
    6.47 +  - <<2016-03-14 Mon>> somtething else ::
    6.48 +
    6.49 +
    6.50 +
    6.51 +* ZZZ
    6.52 +
    6.53 +
    6.54 +** TODO write "let's burn books" stuff (otherwise we'll run out of library space!)  :21CM:
    6.55 +   SCHEDULED: <2015-03-02 Mon>
    6.56 +   [2015-03-02 Mon 08:30]
    6.57 +
    6.58 +** TODO microscope and telescope sussman 			       :MISC:
    6.59 +   SCHEDULED: <2015-03-08 Sun>
    6.60 +   [2015-03-08 Sun 11:43]
    6.61 +
    6.62 +
    6.63 +** TODO star trek comments 					       :MISC:
    6.64 +   SCHEDULED: <2015-03-10 Tue>
    6.65 +   [2015-03-10 Tue 22:48]
    6.66 +
    6.67 +
    6.68 +
    6.69 +
    6.70 +
    6.71 +
    6.72 +
    6.73 +** TODO write "the mind of the master" post			      :ESSAY:
    6.74 +   SCHEDULED: <2015-03-22 Sun>
    6.75 +   :PROPERTIES:
    6.76 +   :ARCHIVE_TIME: 2015-03-22 Sun 19:08
    6.77 +   :ARCHIVE_FILE: ~/proj/gtd/todo.org
    6.78 +   :ARCHIVE_OLPATH: Tasks
    6.79 +   :ARCHIVE_CATEGORY: Tasks
    6.80 +   :ARCHIVE_TODO: TODO
    6.81 +   :END:
    6.82 +   [2015-03-22 Sun 17:55]
    6.83 +
    6.84 +** TODO authenticity and the limits of empiricism 		      :ESSAY:
    6.85 +   SCHEDULED: <2015-03-25 Wed>
    6.86 +   [2015-03-25 Wed 06:59]
    6.87 +
    6.88 +** TODO write "when death entered the world" 			      :ESSAY:
    6.89 +   SCHEDULED: <2015-05-03 Sun>
    6.90 +   [2015-05-03 Sun 12:11]
    6.91 +
    6.92 +
    6.93 +
    6.94 +** TODO qwrite up password system 				      :ESSAY:
    6.95 +   SCHEDULED: <2015-05-03 Sun>
    6.96 +   [2015-05-03 Sun 19:59]
    6.97 +
    6.98 +
    6.99 +** TODO write latex gloves, condoms, technology + morality post       :ESSAY:
   6.100 +   SCHEDULED: <2015-05-18 Mon>
   6.101 +   [2015-05-18 Mon 22:36]
   6.102 +
   6.103 +
   6.104 +** TODO write up org-pdf post 					       :MISC:
   6.105 +   SCHEDULED: <2015-08-07 Fri>
   6.106 +   [2015-08-07 Fri 11:49]
   6.107 +
   6.108 +
   6.109 +
   6.110 +** TODO write "excommunication" 				      :essay:
   6.111 +   SCHEDULED: <2015-11-03 Tue>
   6.112 +   [2015-09-16 Wed 10:07]
   6.113 +
   6.114 +** TODO write up post about led spiral 				       :MISC:
   6.115 +   SCHEDULED: <2015-09-20 Sun>
   6.116 +   [2015-09-20 Sun 10:29]
   6.117 +
   6.118 +
   6.119 +** TODO make immortality song list, link to youtube 		       :MISC: 
   6.120 +   SCHEDULED: <2015-05-28 Thu>
   6.121 +   [2015-05-28 Thu 14:56]
   6.122 +
   6.123 +
   6.124 +
   6.125 +** TODO write up griffiths notes 				       :21CM:
   6.126 +   SCHEDULED: <2015-11-13 Fri>
   6.127 +   [2015-11-13 Fri 09:13]
   6.128 +
   6.129 +
   6.130 +** TODO write up pokemon draft thing 				       :blog:
   6.131 +   SCHEDULED: <2015-12-12 Sat>
   6.132 +   [2015-12-12 Sat 05:52]
   6.133 +
   6.134 +
   6.135 +** TODO write-up "the server culture" 				       :blog:
   6.136 +   SCHEDULED: <2015-12-12 Sat>
   6.137 +[2015-12-12 Sat 06:16]
   6.138 +
   6.139 +** TODO writeup how I do clojure 				       :blog:
   6.140 +   SCHEDULED: <2015-12-12 Sat>
   6.141 +   [2015-12-12 Sat 06:19]
   6.142 +
   6.143 +
   6.144 +** TODO writeup how to make a mailig list tutorial :proj:
   6.145 +   SCHEDULED: <2015-12-17 Thu>
   6.146 +   [2015-12-17 Thu 12:21]
   6.147 +
   6.148 +
   6.149 +** TODO lookup http://.*star.*.com 				    :comfort:
   6.150 +   SCHEDULED: <2015-12-30 Wed>
   6.151 +   [2015-12-30 Wed 16:13]
   6.152 +
   6.153 +
   6.154 +** TODO write "weird pointers" entry 				   :thoughts:
   6.155 +   SCHEDULED: <2016-01-08 Fri>
   6.156 +   [2016-01-08 Fri 08:51]
   6.157 +
   6.158 +
   6.159 +** TODO write "what doom means to me" 				      :essay:
   6.160 +   SCHEDULED: <2016-02-02 Tue>
   6.161 +   [2016-02-02 Tue 18:30]