TODO

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Things to add to this wiki, to my brain, etc
Running QS experiment on sleep improvement, trialling the effects of:
- red-light
- curtains drawn/undrawn
- caffeine
- device usage
- meditation
- Impacts of low sleep on cognition, memory a la Guzey's theses on sleep
Running QS experiment on caffeine's nootropic effects on me using my Anki and Dual-N Back data
Underrated transhuman developments. What radical changes to the human condition have gone pretty unnoticed, and what future changes, albeit mundane, would be consequential?
- Sleep on/off switch (melatonin)
- Nausea on/off switch (hyoscine etc)
- Thought deleter — anxious or persistent thoughts could be targeted and neutralised, or put on hold for a predetermined period of time (i.e. before a test.) (aderall)
- Temperature regulator (clothes)
- Pain on/off switch with added phone notifications (aspirin)
- Prickle resistant feet (shoes)
Ways cyberpunk got everything right
- “De-seriousing” of politics / Snow Crash, written as satire of Cyberpunk/Late Capitalism, managed to be more prophetic than most as a result of that
- Crypto states - El Salvador’s “Bitcoin city”
- Rich men on par with the president in importance/clout/fame i.e. Uncle Enzo, Mr Lee’s Greater Hong Kong
- Jeff Bezos and Amazon
- Elon Musk and SpaceX
- Private cities (https://readwrite.com/2020/09/16/why-big-tech-companies-are-building-cities-and-why-many-are-worried/), on par with Snow Crash’s “franchise nation states”
- “Central Inteligence Corporation” — google earth, google search, Bellingcat, open source intelligence
- Metaverse
- VR Chat/ Alt Space/ Decentraland
- Cryptoanarchy/ proliferation of private money in high inflation areas i.e. Argentina https://cryptobriefing.com/argentina-may-adopt-bitcoin-to-curb-inflation/
- The Raft / refugee crisis
- Delineated seriousness— the NYTimes home page proclaims two op-eds, equal size, one on the potential for a new civil war, the other proliferation of cat memes
- Rich get a lot richer, poor get slightly richer (weirdtopia not dystopia)
- Gig workers - “Kouriers”, uber drivers, door dash etc
Solutions to:
- Haskell road to math, logic and programming (https://7chan.org/pr/src/The_Haskell_Road_to_Logic,_Maths_and_Programming.pdf)
- Haskell School of Music (https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/hudak/Papers/HSoM.pdf)
- Haskell from first principles (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25587599-haskell-programming-from-first-principles)
History/ progress could be incredibly short (Fukuyama’s theory 2.0) if we take the “engineering paradise”/mass mind upload route in the next few centuries, and stick with that status quo until universe heat death etc
Utopias in film:
- Friends
- Seinfield
- Australian Survivor
- The repair shop
- Great British Bake Off
- Grand Designs
Anti-transhumanist propaganda in film/ critical theory and real life
- The Eternals
- Spiderman: no way home
- Gods of Egypt
Duolingo
Lojban
Biology
- https://learningstatisticswithr.com/
- Principles of Synthetic Biology (https://www.edx.org/course/principles-of-synthetic-biology?index=product&queryID=52cc9bdc7b147c6de1d62d12f3db529a&position=1)
- Data analysis for genomics (https://www.edx.org/professional-certificate/harvardx-data-analysis-for-genomics?index=product&queryID=c884aca35d77fa893eede8da425ae12f&position=1)