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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
    • https://twitter.com/Ukraine/status/1468206078940823554?cxt=HHwWhICyhczpjuAoAAAA
    • https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1483194959989719059?cxt=HHwWpoCyrab9rpUpAAAA
    • US Capitol riots https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/qanon-shaman-capitol-rioter-who-wore-horns-pleads-guilty-n1278479
  • 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

  • Esperanto (https://www.beeminder.com/enochthechronocom/esperanto)
  • Hebrew (https://www.beeminder.com/enochthechronocom/duolingo)

• Lojban

  • https://lojban.io
  • https://la-lojban.github.io/

• 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)