robots are godless

Cornersmith cafe in Marrickville

2011-12-17T14:44:00.000+11:00

Features
name: Cornersmith
email: info@cornersmith.com.au
address: 314 Illawarra RdMarrickville NSW 2204 (corner of Petersham and Illawarra Roads)
decor: neo industrial, marble tables, polished concrete floor, white walls
food: gourmet
users: hipsters
opened: 17 December 2011
music: some kind of bluesy twing twang
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cornersmith/294576130569750
twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/search/cornersmith
g+: https://plus.google.com/s/cornersmith

Photos from Arthur Phillip High School (APHS) class of 1991 20th reunion at Parramatta RSL

2011-11-20T21:36:00.001+11:00

download via
https://picasaweb.google.com/108473766390167102000/20101119APHSReunion

Samsung Galaxy S 2

2011-10-30T22:18:00.000+11:00

It is not often that one get his own xmas present, but about a week ago my ebay delivery came through. I am now the proud but not too proud operator of a Samsung Galaxy S II. It set me back about $550ish which I think is good, but more costly than any handset that I had recently.

This post, like the others tagged with my, is again a place holder for notes relating the the equipment. So here is what I know:

At low screen brightness, the center part of the screen looks like it has a smuge, like a cloud of semi conforming pixels. My friend with an unrelated galaxy s2 has the same situation. So I guess it is normal -- also I don't care.

The handset is a dream to use.
Skype video calls are awesome; you can switch between forward or backward cameras.

2011 10 22 google plus sydney photographers circle photo walk

2011-10-23T13:51:00.002+11:00

https://picasaweb.google.com/108473766390167102000/20111022GooglePlusSydneyPhotographersCirclePhotoWalk#

WATCH: TED with Henry Markram

2011-10-11T21:20:00.001+11:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_column

2011 10 08 sydney ride festival

2011-10-08T16:42:00.001+11:00

https://picasaweb.google.com/108473766390167102000/20111008SydneyRideFestival

http://whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/events/11059-launch-event-bff-street-fair-of-riding-goodness

my flash benchmarks

2011-10-07T22:53:00.000+11:00

Corsair SATA SSD 32GB

Elite Pro CF 8GB

Kingston DataTraveler 150 32GB USB

Memorette CF 266x

OME (UDISK PDI01) 64GB USB

Intel P-SSD1800 8GB

Sandisk Extreme 8GB SD card

Sandisk Ultra 8GB SD card

Asus Eee PC 1015PX

2011-09-27T22:47:00.003+10:00

I got this Asus Eee PC 1015PX (aka eee pc r051px) netbook about 2 weeks ago, from JBHIFI for about $400. I also got an external DVD burner and got a $20 discount, or something like that. (review) (official)

This was an upgrade from an Acer [Acer Aspire One NAV50 (aka AO532 N450 spec);since 20100413] because I felt that I needed a faster machine to do some 1080p video editing. This new one has a 1.6GHz dual core atom with DDR3.

NOTES:

ubuntu works well out of the box
only one speaker
bluetooth works well with with external Logitech speaker; but once connected it does not disconnect and revert to built in speaker without rebooting.
screen could be brighter, speaker could be louder, the right shift could be bigger rather than next to the enter key, the screen could open up more
this netbook has a mat screen which is less effective to wipe, unlike my previous acer with a glossy screen
thick
mic sound quality is crappy (not unlike the Acer), but I suppose it needs different drivers but who knows
track pad works well with 2 finger scroll
comes with a 6 cell battery and a tiny power supply wall wart, which is nice
power connector is small and does not look like it can take much punishment
SD card reader works out of the box
boots pretty fast
I swapped out the original HDD for my Corsair 32GB SSD that I already had in the Acer; getting inside the case via the keyboard was a pain
1080p HD video from my dslr does not play smoothly at all

ARTcycle ride

2011-09-24T20:04:00.003+10:00

The other day, via the internets, I found ARTcycle, an artist cyclist group.

Today I joined them on the Green Ring ride, for the Sydney Town Hall to Mascot leg. The content was good, the pace was not too difficult, and made some new friends.

Here are my photos.

https://picasaweb.google.com/108473766390167102000/20110924ARTcycleRide

fix bike tail light

2011-08-28T20:02:00.002+10:00

So a few weeks ago yet again I was too cheap to spring for an proper bike light from a bike store and opted to get this unit from the two dollar shop. Soon I found out that as I rode in the dark I had no tail light.

The design fault here is that when you go over a hump it jars the unit, and the battery disconnects for a split second, turning the unit off -- or at least that's my theory.

The solution was to solder a capacitor across the battery terminals. The capacitor provides power for that brief moment as the batteries disconnect and spring back into position. It appears to do the trick.

The capacitor was salvaged from a power supply that I picked up for a dollar at The Bower. I don't remember the value, but possibly 200uF 10V, the usual power filter cap.

Huawei Sonic android mobile phone notes

2011-08-28T14:27:00.001+10:00

-btw- this handset died on me after a month

I got the Huawei Sonic (U8650) last weekend -- from South Granville Woolworths for $188 unlocked.

I've been wanting an android 2.3 for a while, but off course the Samsung Galaxy S2 is just out of my price range.

This handset is a downgrade from my previous Ideos X5. It has a lesser CPU, less screen resolution, and a lesser camera. Nonetheless I chose to continue with the Huawei bonanza of Woolworths Android proliferation -- also all former handsets get handed down to needy friends. Anyway, I a google fanboy. This is my third Huawei android in 18 months and not likely to be the last.

Notes:

responsiveness is sluggish at times
the headphones jack is compatible with ubiquitous iphone headsets (unlike my last 2 androids)
directional finder seems to use a proper 3D compass, so it points your gps screen in the correct direction no matter how you hold it [revision: after Maps updates, the direction finder is on the fritz, and I can't find any setting options that corrects it]
the Google goggles app does not work, or even install -- error message is "This item is not compatible with your device." Based on my reads, it has something to do with not having an auto focus camera. wtf, it's just just a camera
11 September 2011, touchscreen suddenly became unresponsive. Rebooting did not help. Contacted the manufacturer twice via http://huaweimobile.com.au/contact -- NO RESPONSE :: RIP 11-09-11
factory reset :: remove battery, insert the battery, hold down volume up and power buttons for about 12 seconds. that will get to the Android system recovery screen. use volume up down for menu and power button to select

2011 08 14 Ban Live Animal Export rally at Martin Place Sydney

2011-08-15T12:22:00.002+10:00

On Sunday we went to this event, and took a few photos. If you are unaware, this was part of a national rally that was organised by Animals Australia.

https://picasaweb.google.com/108473766390167102000/20110814BanLiveAnimalExportRallyAtMartinPlaceSydney?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCPqDztb-i_HtfA&feat=directlink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlinW-O0IwU

Story via Animals Australia
http://www.animalsaustralia.org/media/in_the_news.php?article=2807

fix faulty Aldi Lumina ceramic heater by removing a blown thermal fuse

2011-06-27T22:56:00.002+10:00

This post is virtually the same as the previous one about the electric blanket. Yadi yadi yada, and remove a thermal fuse from the ceramic heater and everything works just fine. Here is a bunch of pictures that tell the story about fixing this heater and a bit more perhaps.

IMHO the fuse is redundant, and also killing the unit prematurely. The heavy lifting of safety is done by a thermal switch (see photo further down). I tested it, and it cuts out after 20 seconds after having the air intake blocked, real good - oh it was toasty, off and quite safe.

BTW, warranty void, me thinks.

thermal fuse in the white tube - to be removed

the thermal fuse is for 94C

after cutting out the fuse, it is good to twist and solder the wires for good conductivity -- and put the white tube back over it when you're done

the thermal fuse -- still safe

some wiring

oscillating fan in the base, in you're interested

thermostat and off/fan/lo/hi switch

fix faulty Aldi Lumina electric blanket by removing a blown thermal fuse

2011-06-13T11:31:00.004+10:00

I purchased 2 electric blankets from Aldi, $15 each, for the old dog to stay warm this winter. The value seemed awesome. Within about 2 week they stopped working. Yadi yadi yada. I found that the best way to fix them was to snip off the spent Thermal Fuse, leaving the connecting wires, then twisting the wires together, effectively bypassing the fault. I'll take my chances.

African Queen in Marrickville

2011-05-16T17:37:00.005+10:00

318 Illawarra Road Marrickville NSW 2204

This is just a random post. As at 2011 05 31 this place is still on my to do list.

-- Revision Saturday, August 27 2011 --

Yesterday we finally achieved crossing this place off our to do list, by having dinner at the here. The food was terrific! The place was not busy, so the service focused on us. They have a fantastic vegetarian sub-menu! We sampled about 3 or 4 dishes -- I should have noted which ones. The flavour contrasts with what we usually get in Marrickville, which is spicy Asian styled -- the food at the African queen was quite mild, well balanced and not confronting, or safe for all diners. The service was home styled and very considerate. I look forward to returning to sample some more of the menu.

WATCH: Sugar: The Bitter Truth

2011-04-19T20:16:00.001+10:00

Huawei IDEOS X5 android mobile phone notes

2011-04-04T10:18:00.010+10:00

Yesterday I went to DSE and upgraded my phone from Huawei U8230 (android 2.1) to the IDEOS X5 aka Huawei U8800 (android 2.2).

This is my proud second android, and it's pretty awesome.

I will update this post later.

photos link

notes:

if the phone speaker stops working then turn off, remove battery for a minute, turn on. it should start working again (link)
Friday, June 03 2011 :: Yesterday I accidentally discovered that now I have a WIFI hotspot, like those "MI-FI" modems selling for around $100. The feature must have come across with a recent system update. This compliments the pre-existing USB tether feature. I am now considering ditching my 3G USB modem dongle in favour of the hotspot -- fewer gadgets, fewer internet access costs, albeit greater dependence on the phone but such is life.
audio plug pinouts -- 3.5mm plug, TRRS (tip ring ring sleeve), T=left R1=right R2=mic S=ground -- multi-meter proof: T to S 32ohm, R1 to S 32ohm, T to R1 62ohms, R2 to S = 2ohms when mic button pressed -- full function is not compatible with iphone headset, because it has RS and S switched

Tip=left
Ring1=right
Ring2=mic
Sleeve=ground

this phone went to Ed

WATCH: PETA, If This Is Kosher ...

2011-04-01T20:06:00.001+11:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WviIO1oAYM0

badidea2011

2011-03-27T15:12:00.002+11:00

This page contains misc thoughts jotted down before forgetting them. In general, anything found here is no good at all, but occasionally I revisit it.

Sunday, January 30 2011 while having a badidea session, I noticed that this was the situation:
On increasing the rate of idea creation: after intense exercise, circulation is peaked, but energy and available oxygen is used up by the body. However, after a brisk walk, circulation is also up but available calories and increased oxygen (from increased rate of breathing) are not used up by the whole body, hence are available for the brain. The availability to the brain should facilitate an increased rate of processing and incidental creativity for a short but useful session.

Friday, March 25 2011
via the gigapixel experiment.
1) reflective/refractive crystal multiplexer delay line via geometry approximating a plural series (multi input, multiplexed output)
2) reflective rotating spinner or double spinner
3) reflective (glitter embedded substrate) / refractive noise geometry based source rotator calibrated to reconstruct a standard image; passive solid (rock/panel) component has an offsets profile; discard if unable to recalibrate
4) non solid (liquid/gas) distortion scanning (drop wobble / gas density/volume distorter), by wave / loop signal

Saturday, March 26 2011

2 gigapixel pinhole scanner camera: tried scanner in a box prototype. image was useless.

Sunday, March 27 2011
hobo kitchen kiosk. different hobo stew of the day. hobo kitchen books. hobo charity giving. hobo blog, internets, free wifi, classifieds.

WATCH: Julian Assange's Lawyer - Rob Stary slams the Australian Government on Vimeo

2011-03-20T15:35:00.001+11:00

Julian Assange's Lawyer - Rob Stary slams the Australian Government from Kazam Casrane on Vimeo.

Julian Assange's Lawyer - Rob Stary slams the Australian Government on Vimeo

WATCH: Deb Roy: The birth of a word

2011-03-15T23:04:00.001+11:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE4ce4mexrU

WATCH: Robert Sapolsky: Are Humans Just Another Primate?

2011-02-24T21:46:00.002+11:00

http://fora.tv/2011/02/15/Robert_Sapolsky_Are_Humans_Just_Another_Primate#chapter_17

WATCH: TED Naomi Klein: Addicted to risk

2011-01-19T19:45:00.000+11:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZhL7P7w3as

Happy Birthday John C

2011-01-18T15:04:00.002+11:00

WATCH: David Sloan Wilson: Evolving the City

2011-01-13T21:43:00.001+11:00

http://fora.tv/2010/09/29/David_Sloan_Wilson_Evolving_the_City

David Sloan Wilson blog

wiki

WATCH: Daniel Ellsberg and Julian Assange Talk WikiLeaks

2011-01-02T20:22:00.001+11:00

http://fora.tv/2010/10/25/Daniel_Ellsberg_and_Julian_Assange_Talk_WikiLeaks

Letter to the RTA requesting crossing lights

2010-12-14T09:26:00.005+11:00

This letter is in regard to the unsafe pedestrian crossing condition at the intersection of Cowper St and Parks, Parramatta (NSW 2150).

Currently there are signs installed advising pedestrians to cross at a nearby intersection. Cowper street, though previously quiet, has in recent years been significantly redeveloped with high density apartments and offices, and development is continuing. It is unrealistic for the RTA to expect pedestrians to abide by the signs telling them to cross elsewhere, and I can attest from experience that people do take their chances at this intersection -- I work in the area.

My modest proposal is for the RTA to install traffic lights at the said intersection, and not delay much longer with this safety issue.

I provide this photo and map link

http://picasaweb.google.com/bobnewmanemail/2010Misc#5549249385499511970

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=parramatta&sll=-33.841687,151.0034&sspn=0.006648,0.013797&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Parramatta+New+South+Wales,+Australia&ll=-33.819673,151.006705&spn=0.000831,0.001725&z=19

Best regards

Bob ...

[letter submitted via web form http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=feedback.form]

Tuesday, January 18 2011

Response from the RTA:

Ref: GE10/7968

Dear Bob

I refer to your email about a pedestrian crossing at the intersection of Cowper Street and
Parkes Street, Parramatta

Parramatta City Council is responsible for Cowper Street and Parkes Street, as these are
local and regional roads respectively. As such, the issues raised in your email are matters for
consideration by the council.

Should you wish to discuss the matter further, you may wish to contact the council on
(02) 9806 5000. Alternatively, the council’s email address is council@parracity.nsw.gov.au.

Kind regards

Jagtar ...
RTA Customer Services

Tuesday, January 18 2011
Forwarded to the Council:

Dear Parramatta City Council

I forward this letter that I had earlier written to the RTA but today was referred to the Council, for your consideration. In this email from here onward references to the RTA to mean as the Council:

{... as above}

Tuesday, February 7 2011

Response from the Council:

This is not a favorable turning point.

Here is an illustration of the planned Council fence (red) and additional long walk (green):

Parks Street is a significant road. It seems that in this instance the 'local' Council is not acting in the best interest of local residents and pedestrians.

The letter is signed by the Manager for Traffic and Transport, hence the biased anti-pedestrian solution. Had the matter been referred to the "Manager for community development" (a sensible responsibility at any local council), a simple zebra crossing would have been painted, and at a fraction of the cost of the proposed concrete median and fence structure. From observation, that segment of road does not exceed 40km/h in rush hours, and is often stopped between red lights anyway. Alternatively, pedestrian crossing lights synchronized with existing nearby lights would also do it -- and at no consequence to traffic flow, while providing a binding protocol for pedestrians to wait and traffic to give way while stopped. But I'm not an expert.

Ah, I give up.

Huawei U8230 android mobile phone notes

2010-12-05T15:48:00.008+11:00

Finally, I got my first android! No regrets. I love it!

The price was right, and I opted to just get it. Sure, I would have much rather gotten a Samsung Galaxy S because of its far superior spec (and correspondingly higher price), but the Huawei U8230 will serve me just fine for now.

purchased 25 November 2010, $299 from Dick Smith Parramatta, unlocked
links: Huawei support site includes manual pdf; google
spec: android 2.1, android market, 1500 mAh battery, 3.2MP forward camera / vga backward camera, 3.5 inch display / TFT / 320 x 480, micro sd up to 16GB, no FM radio, GPS, 3G / 3G broadband internet, WIFI, USB charge and connectivity.
hate: bluetooth receive files only; cannot connect to headset; 2.5mm non standard audio connector (but it should not be too hard to find spares on ebay); USB non standard clip plug; skype works but mixed results, skype out mostly bad; no video skype; only kinda all day battery life, provided that you stay plugged in overnight and until you leave the house in the morning; no google docs editing
love: android; google account integration for contacts, calendar, gmail/talk; latitude, reader, maps
SIM of choice: Virginbroadband prepaid, has data, can receive calls and SMS but not send; can place calls via skype out; ordered BYO SIM card kit for $10 but yet to install / currently swapping sim between the phone and my usb dongle that i normally use with my netbook
some web content is formatted for mobile screens, things look a bit different

my photos link

this phone went to Karen

support for a ban on live animal exports

2010-12-04T13:12:00.003+11:00

TO: senator.ludwig@aph.gov.au
RE: support for a ban on live animal exports
DATE: Saturday, December 04 2010

Dear Senator

I am writing to you to express my support for a ban on Australian live animal exports.

My position is that the practice is immoral, cruel and inconsistent with a forward looking industrial society.

Further, our live export industry undermines Australian diplomatic efforts in countering whaling as it leaves us with no moral high ground at all. Also it leaves us looking like the pot calling the cattle black when we criticise other nations' practices, such as seal hunts and over fishing.

Best regards
...

[ via http://www.animalsaustralia.org/investigations/live-export-investigation-2010.php ]
[ also to the PM http://www.pm.gov.au/PM_Connect/contact_your_pm_form ]
[ Senator the Hon Joe Ludwig, Senator for Queensland, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Manager of Government Business in the Senate ]

Granville library meager printing availability letter

2010-11-09T15:00:00.003+11:00

TO: http://www.parracity.nsw.gov.au/home/contact_us
RE: Granville library meager printing availability
DATE: Tuesday, November 09 2010

Today I walked into my local library, in Granville, and was disappointed somewhat. After filling in a membership form, getting a card issued in order to purchase credit to add to the card to use the printer, I then was advised that there is a half hour wait for the next available PC. I saw 4 PCs in use by members, 1 not in any apparent use, 1 reserved for staff, and 2 reserved for controlling print jobs. Noting for quick hop on hop off use. This was on a Tuesday, early afternoon, not seemingly a peak demand time at all.

To contrast, Merrylands library, only one suburb away, where there are many PCs, with what looks like a much healthier utilization rate. Among their simple user friendly solutions are multipurpose catalog/print PCs. Printing there is pain free, and certainly does not need an advanced booking. I have also seen other libraries with what appear to be similar provisions.

Today I use a cheap netbook with cheap 3G internet. I do not have any use for a local library in terms of reading or borrowing their books or almost any other services which I am sure are in operation. I would use our library more if it was useful to me, and would recommend to others if that was the case. But the lack of provision of such simple services like what I described here do not inspire positive feedback. We seem to get more useful results from ubiquitous convenience stores with a cheap PCs and internet access.

Best regards
Bob Newman

[ open letter at http://robotsaregodless.blogspot.com/2010/11/granville-library-meager-printing.html ]

Spirulina nausea

2010-11-01T19:31:00.000+11:00

About a month ago I started eating Spirulina. I dilute 1 flat table spoon of powder with 1 cup of water, and take this twice per day. The taste is not good but it is tolerable knowing that it is a vegan superfood hence good for me.

Today I had to stop. After using it for some 3 weeks without any adverse events, in about week 4 I may have served myself a slight overdose; about 1 heaped tablespoon with a cup of water. Shortly thereafter I felt some nausea, but was not sure if it was from the spirulina or other foods that I followed it up with, a bad combo, or a contamination. Today, in about week 5 of the trial, I made myself a dilute serving, a teaspoon to 1 cup of water. I had two sips and got immediate nausea, and stopped.

There does not seem to be spirulina intolerance on google, but there are adverse reactions reported.

I'm not sure at all that I factored out everything, but I'm taking a break from it. I've never hit such a hard limit on a food.

AAO 543h current drain

2010-10-08T15:09:00.002+11:00

Wasted some time on taking power usage measurements for the netbook, at the PSU (DC-DC 12V input PSU attached to a 12V battey with a multimeter set to 10A current pass through).

The average idling overhead of the system is was 890mA to 1000mA (no open apps), peaking at 1300A (loading igoogle page, with some widgets and chat list).
Using the SSD (adapted CF) instead of HDD saves only 50 to 100mA.
With the display off by shutting the lid, the system idled in the 800mA something range, with no apps open.

Spending money on upgrading to a good SSD presents poorer value than saving the money for an upcoming system, like a tablet form, in my mind anyway.

Unrelated:

Last night I installed Ubuntu 10.10rc to the SSD. The system failed to boot without the bootable install USB drive. The trick was to boot as is, and enter this command: sudo grub-install /dev/sdb

Also, note2self, to remove the password lock after sleep, run gconf-editor, apps, gnome-power-manager, lock, suspend untick.

Hitch 22: A Memoir

2010-10-08T02:39:00.002+11:00

Mostly on my way leaving America way back in July, I picked up Hitch 22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens. I have always been a fan his performances on video, but finally I read one of his books, the latest one. It is good, if you are a fan -- I am.

The catch seems to be holding contradictory positions -- to strive to improve the human condition and be open minded, while resisting totalitarianism and unhelpful ideologies by being single minded.

WATCH: Steven Gubser: The Little Book of String Theory

2010-09-10T16:50:00.000+10:00

http://fora.tv/2010/09/07/Steven_Gubser_The_Little_Book_of_String_Theory#chapter_20

Letter to the ATO about the lack of web based lodgement

2010-08-19T16:51:00.000+10:00

https://olt.ato.gov.au/feedback/Complaints_Feedback.asp
and this is what I wrote...

When will I be able to lodge my tax on the web?

I live in a household of 4 to 5 ubuntu linux laptop users, and e-tax just does not seem to work on our platform. The app gets stuck on screen 11 I believe where it asks to roll over a previous year's file and becomes unresponsive.

This is a shame, because as I was keen to use your paperless lodgment app in it's early days when it was an innovative step forward, it had since failed to change with the times to a universal platform that the web had clearly become. I have no problems with online banking or just about any other conceivable data service.

And so this year, like the last several few years, I will again have to use a paper form to do my very simple tax. This is not a progressive state of the ATO's technology. As web access is becoming evermore ubiquitous -- via iphones, androids, ipads, netbooks, upcoming smartbooks, and reportedly upcoming web enabled TVs, all of which have only web accessibility in common and certainly not any one flavour of operating system -- when does the ATO intend to upgrade to a web based lodgment platform?

This is not a linux issue, which would also have merit in its own right. This is about fair accessibility to government services.

note2self2010

2010-08-19T11:37:00.003+10:00

mantra: lack of imagination
there is no need for trying to act out silly fantasies or have your genes play tricks with you
fail faster -- if a project is doomed, shut it down quickly; don't tie your ego to any one project -- if it stumbles, you'll be unable to move forward; real entrepreneurs fail; fail a lot but enjoy yourself along the way; if you handle these things well, 'you will succeed.'" [Jimmy Wales]
remember the race against time
drink water
go outside into the sun
regularly move around a bit

badidea2009

2010-08-15T18:16:00.004+10:00

This page contains misc thoughts jotted down before forgetting them. In general, anything found here is no good at all, but occasionally I revisit it. Also this is a closed document from 2009.

Saturday, January 10 2009
02:34 AM
-badidea- normal daily unsavory compromises. when will it be when technology will deliver me to my happy place where my mode of existence is perfect with respect to the physical world. a point where my corporeal entity that hosts my mind will be self sustaining, at least for a given period that is longer than a day or so, where my mind can do what it wants to without regard for the need to constantly necessity of interfacing with the world to sustain the body. so, technology is the key; current technology fails; current technology does facilitate some of it; the survival period is about one day but would like to be extend to a lifetime, say 30 years, or some amount; otherwise not speculating on mind transference or dealing with death and the continuity of the larger super organism abstracts. without endeavoring to factor in or out one's world view and culture and fear of death to shift to another position that does not suffer those things and does not cost the person to waste his time on contemplating such things. hmm. started with technology, finished on a grey area between culture, psychology, individual world view, and philosophy. why does it never get easy and reduce in complexity into a single course of action.

Thursday, January 22 2009
12:12 PM
-badidea- watched robert reich youtube snippet.consider unconventional entrepreneurship, post bankruptcies and a variety of sanctions via the encumbents, inertia and errors and anomalies. also from earlier today, consider social/economic entraprenuership by finding people, jobs and connecting them, via a so far undiscovered driver; find the driver. A scalable activity mass may result.

-badidea- youtube,fora re infused capital via banking bailout and litigation via lessig. on individuals' economic interactions and lifestyle. if establishments favor incumbents, then a nouveau must unconstrained itself. individuals remain vaguely functional withing existing systems but a body aggregate would forge an unconstrained path. consider this with the backdrop of stability and continuity to the uninformed newcomer. the novelty is that of the qualities and apparent behaviors of an aggregate overlay, with relatively simple adjustments to individual behavior, certainly not warranting any substantial change in interaction with existing systems. said that, with darwinian selection other selections, waves of reformat would be visible on pundit analysis.

Friday, January 30 2009
-badidea- on protests via naomi wolf, stopping commercial activity is key, new model for stopping activity via asymmetric tactics rather than head on unarmed citizens vs military. AT via communication means. Hyper peaceful, or otherwise. to disintegrate business as usual activity, to disintegrate traditional authority structures that give means to corrupted leadership. protocols to disintegrate structure and activity from identified errors and reintegrate to correct the error. active driver one: is control of resources and agglomerating flows. passive driver: maslow hierarchy. chaotic driver: discontent to action. passive driver: tendency to agglomerate into activity, aka peer pressure aka flocking. passive driver: desperate communication maneuvering to consolidate power. passive driver: leadership qualities of leadership. Identify and or undermine the motivation?

Friday, January 30 2009
re above. The current global financial situation illustrates grand scale interdependence. From corporate work, we know that there is not a lot available in terms of redundancy and robustness. Traffic jams and commuter trains illustrate how an incident can have sever effects on the system. Sure the system overcomes errors but it takes time, and has a punishing effect on the power incumbents. Hence only a lightly coordinated disruption via the public acting in unison has wide reaching effects. With prior system/business/intelligence analysis critical points can be identified; this I assume is normal practice of the CIA for sovereign state disruption. Conversely the system will try to defend itself to maintain status quo.

Global unifiers include classical government modes, contemporary global supply chains, cultural convergence via classical media spurring aggrigate want, the internet in classical media terms. The aggregate systems work well with a docile host population, under educated or otherwise educated and in aggregate not too bright; also the systems are ever more dependent on pools of ever more able thinkers as culture and by extension it's technology develops.

The interneet is a double edge sword, put as a truism, as a mass many to many communication conduit, it can disrupt and reform all of the above. Also put as a truism, based on observation, it wants to spread to all people, hence cannot be truly disruptive in a classical revolutionary sense. Hence is the grand unifier.

Given the above, the internet is the new battle ground for neo revolutionary activity, neo asymmetric tactics, and a stage for self emergent protocols for activity. Also keeping in mind that the internet is a technology, technology is a component of culture, global culture tends to homogeniety, and hence the itnernet is the post classical culture post classical media post classical want driver super homogenefier. Variation remains and continues to develop based on attached substrates, namely the dispositions of individuals, especially in terms of their values, abilities, and bleeding edge culture, like the ability to find and follow memes, and the tendency to learn and change; this quality is clearly not applicable to individuals across the board. Hence chaotic variation is set to continue, and no simplistic homogeneity exists.

individual features eligible for exploit and protocol emergence:

shame, controversy, scandal workaround: observe the neo cons, fox: non fact based dialog has been made a mainstay. this is a protocol development for robustness, effective in suppressing classical merit based dialog; is a homogenifier, effective on the non elite thinkers that make up the vast majority. may be eligible as a post religious unifier masquerading as almost secular dialog (as apposed to religious dogma based dialog under any religion); can insert any cultural suggestion into the aggregate, affecting action and compliance. otherwise shame was an effective protocol for asymmetric tactical attacks
internet people protocols: the virulence can turn around a test subject protocol via vast numbers of people within days more or less. as a test bed, a lab, it clearly hosts the bleeding edge of protocol innovation and testing. it is everything to everyone, for those wired. that said, the elements of the substrate are a cluster of elite thinkers unlike the previous point, hence it and everything connected to it is unlike the other classical (via normal supply chain, jobs, maslow individual drivers) and neo classical (via model media, want generators, and other cultural diffusers and activators) mass
internet and classical protocols: remember that communication is to the present and the future. it has a time and aggregate aspect, and writes into many areas of culture.
culture: amorphus mass overlaying the human condition, spanning area and time. Leaders produce culture legacies: bush, putin, sadam, mugabie, all these and many other sources write, insert and overwrite, into the culture under their sphere of influence. Clearly there is a battle of the spheres, as if they too were emergent entities, sometimes altering boundaries like via invasion or CIA activity, flow of aid (a type of trojan horse), and trade agreements.
classical leadership: to explore the nature of the exploit, mask out the leader person and conventional personality and treat them as a hapless body used to carry and express the nature of an opportunistic entity. also keep in mind that the opportunist may also be hapless, with the system expressing a result as an aggregate. exploration and analysis of all overlapping systems via all overlapping models is appropriate, also hard.
good and bad: consider value judgments as insertion points. There is a disconnect between good and bad from everyday life, flooded with moral hazards. What of basing an analysis on results? How loaded is the zeitgeist with values? If almost all of today's analysis is based on values, which can be observed as another substrate and filled with arbitrary baggage, then that leaves a whole balance area completely unexplored. To what extent is that balance area exploited or under exploited, understood or under understood? An impression of it has not been stamped into common knowledge.

For now the above are put as opportunities for developing a bh model. since yesterday, or maybe again, my need for a bh is a need to explain the seemingly absurd, or maybe otherwise pointless world that i live in. the need probably arises from a cognitive diver that no doubt reduplicates in a portion of the human substrate.

Also note of not previously put, the now several weeks old idea of analysis via motionless 4 dimensional objects that make up the substrate, fractal resemblance and ability to reference other fractal levels for clues.

On motivation drivers, dennis miller made an indication on o'reily recently that i took away as, these agents, classical media personalities at least, go to where the money is. Further this indicates that following that trail of money is not an adequateness abstraction. A useful derivative model needs to be found or developed.

On people protocols and the foundation of a state entity, there is the classical dichotomy of coordination via a head character or by protocols in the case of democracy and the rule of law. This is another point to build a model for examining our world in terms of protocols rather than will of characters. Or otherwise to suggest that protocols are the model for looking at aggregates.

Saturday, February 14 2009
while watching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxFfUsDgnaU @ 56min
forget bh. although could still be interesting to get a cloud brain substrate.
The universe as we know it is a mathematical expression of something with boundary condition. If you take dna feedstock, put into proximity via a container, apply temperature, you have something with boundary conditions, and something else is expressed; with scale different levels of complexity get expressed deterministically. Implying that mathematics and physics can at some point unify also. On the state of the art of theoretical physics, it is an exploration of finding a geometry for it all. On perspective, a change in geometry could be akin to flat vs round earth.

Wednesday, February 18 2009
02:56 PM
good dream night: Earlier, saw a web page with an artist woman using an old house with a fake fault entrance, to create a art piece with all sorts of cultural artifacts inside; also looked at polished concrete floors for ideas re my room and mother's multiply indicated reno inclination. Went to bed late, after a coffee. Got up multiple times to number one, until the good dreams started. Close to the morning there were 2, the first one merged into the second one. First one I did not remember by the time I woke up. The second was like this. starts in bed ass up, with woman somehow passed out on top. woman starts to number one, first person (I )is aware and figures out what is happening. Woman wakes up embarrassed and furious, not quite recognizing the origin of the situation. storms off, to work presumingly, but after maybe an agreement was indicated that I will make it up to her with arbitrary house work, maybe to safe face but duno. I get up and start walking through the house. The home is a single level large warehouse / gallery, labyrinth type not unlike ikea. each room has a tetris block floor with irregular passages with a naturally occurring main path. along the rooms, thousands of art sculptures. each room tends to have furniture, like sofas, as it is the woman's home. All the sofas seem to be of the faux suede fabric, dark colors, browns, purples, greys, just like the walls and floors. The sculptures, some made of junk, but all sorts, tend to be painted with a color that matches the rest of the room, per each. Somewhere in the dream, maybe the fist one multiply merges into the second one, it seems that the second one is movie watched in some cinema, first a preview, then gets restarted with after effects, tending on topographical decoration of the ceiling with over lay colors like upside down google street view, in the topography art manner of the youtube google talks woman who pioneered topography art in her second phase of the 80s. it was in part a fusion of interior decoration, topographical graphic design, the lebowski maud character.

I was quite amazed waking up, and witnessed some light of dawn in my room, took a colage of photos because it also looked good, with my camera phone; later stitched them in picasa, but the white balance was not quite right, still captured a semblance of the moment sans the emotion and high res grain and color. Then had the following bad idea, or before.

-badidea- after looking at htc dream having just been released by optus, and watching a few youtubes re it. camera phone device used as a pointer and to render all kinds of things by using the camera, motion / orientation sensor, display. camera photo stitcher: as the phone grabs frames in real time and is moved around, it paints with incoming images, finds its own reference points, takes advantage of motion/orientation data. also, after wrestling with blender and opting out: use display with cross hairs to trace around what you see to get a 2d shape. button/pallet to make an extrusion. user modify to ding into it, like working with clay only using the phone device as a pointer tool with 3d motion sensor. also, camera incoming data with motion sensor can make an effective 3d mouse, more accurate than the motion sensor alone.

Saturday, February 21 2009
11:15 PM
-badidea- watching jeferson's moose vid. restrictions on speech are restrictions of thought, ado with the internet. thought police is trying to be it.

Sat 07 Mar 2009 13:35:32 EST
-badidea- came across a shared RSS item.

“why should I trust the science - it’s biased/has vested interests/goes against my religion/philosophy.”... "science is not technology"

sure, confront computer science geeks, material scientists, and various labcoattype researchers that what they are doing is not really science - it's technology, just tinkering with wires and switches, mixing stuff up, and poking around the unhuman. People using the scientific method to tease out useful information from natural systems to fit their view is inherently bias, to illustrate a preconception or to weigh one down with data if only to impress others. but at some point the results turn into useful devices, like all sorts of energy conversion and information conveying systems. These theocrats would prefer to receive devices without any of the work leading up, that is without the process of teasing out useful information from the natural world - and their demagogues would have you believe that they would discontinue further such work toward as yet unknown future devices, assuming just for a moment that they are truthful, pure, and lead their followers to success. Luckily other drivers that are far more powerful and seem to dwarf the combined weight of the religious right - greed and ambition, for money and power, to the rescue or otherwise for its own sake! Also, getting gluetrapped with a spiritual person may distract one from broader consideration. Super human conditions may also benefit from the natural selection model, where the success of superstition can be mapped with other overlays, like the rate of technological consumption, mortality and poverty, mastery of administrative and resource conversion systems, rate and extent of scientific innovation. Whether winning or losing a distinct argument about a value judgment, it could leave one unsatisfied if that person has a science centric worldview. However, persons like Dawkins and Hitchens seem to derive amusement from actively trolling the religious base, with pro science or anti religion - they are biased and unapologetic about it. Hence there is clearly a range in dialog between those who are religious and otherwise, with rhetorical methods and bias not being exclusive to any group. Also maybe with the spurring that it gets from such dialog, the spiritual overlay is maintained and continues to test and adapt itself to fill a maximum extent that the substrate will hold? Aside from the simplistic meme explanation of the proliferation of spiritual constructs, or the corporeal viral analogy with an innately deterministic relationship between a spiritual theme and it's host population - do anti spiritual attacks cause a defensive response, polarizing communities, and provisioning an agreeable substrate with fractal like scale independence, where the existence and extent of the theme is largely dependent on it's opposite?

This would be difficult to test as it is imaginable that spiritual groups rally to such as their churches, and construct fear and differentiation between themselves and outsiders. So it is not simply a homogeneous spiritual group across all of humanity. But compatible groups do cluster around compatible ideas and activities, where such can be used as a factor for a homogeneity test. A contemporary example would be testing a conglomerate group's sentiment on abortion, regardless of other points.

But if the opposite of opposite is integration, and integration cannot be achieved because of contentious points, and a democracy based social administration system is based on dialog and openness to contention - then opposition is self sustain.

The novelty of testing the hypothesis even if by finding a suitable test group would do little beyond serving up an academic result.

At this point, rather than dissolving an overlay it may be more useful to feed competing overlays. This is for a higher substrate to deal with, leaving nothing to do on a personal level.

08:40 PM
-badidea- while playing fora is russia ready for change. no political or economic system sustainable, that is why it changes. a derived factor is the direction and extent of change. identifying and mapping this into aggregates may indicate a constant. human science and discovery systems seem driven by a force compelling alignment between itself and the natural world. why? to optimize productivity, under a state of no change? seems counter to evidence of embodied in change. to accelerate change, where productivity is in terms of the rate of scientific progress. adversarial behaviors and natural selection, and internal stress seem consistent as they produce scientific advancements. keep in mind that science, technology, administrative resource allocation systems, culture, and maybe others are parts of the unitary body. a thriving part is one that produces unitary advancement. can a resource part be spent, like ancient greece and other former centers of advancement? or is the spent part mislabeled based on limited perception, or an incorrect or otherwise classical demarcation? like national borders rather than say spanning zeitgeist clusters.

Tuesday, March 10 2009
11:43 AM
-badidea- private property is a major difference between the first world and the rest. legal private property seems to inspire people to work committed and long hours to pay for their mortgages and other desires. on allocation of resources, private property enables people to not need to cooperate in their private lives, unlike their work lives which ironically is where they spend most of their life. on addressing private property in a legal studies sense, it is not what we think on a day to day sense. hence, any competing system should address that need to separate one self and accumulate stuff into own bucket of sorts, and have it be sanctioned by a common legal system that preserves equity.
04:47 PM
-badidea-
again i am toying with the idea of commons in living arrangements. I would prefer not to live with mother, or beth, but some third parties; a commons or a multi person flat sharing arrangement seems like the only solution that enables high density and low cost. and no doubt there would be character friction but maybe that could be solved with transients. why has no scheme come to light.

Thursday, March 19 2009
-badidea- on living homeless. the home seems to be full of non productive maintenance and distractions. shower and shave at a public pool for cost of entry ($) (can be mitigated by membership pass), also go for a dip and workout. in the daytime, job, school, library, park. food, eat less, buy fresh produce and bread. store bulk valuables like books and laundry a locker. connectivity and battery recharge via public library and other facilities. challenge: sleep security. decoupling needing to work to make money to maintain domicile is an person economics game changer, with disruptive aggregate. on yet another front, defy the traditional scarcity model.
--nextday-- discovered cyber drifters in Japan via bb http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/19/people-live-in-tiny.html
like the internet makes information free, abundant and limited only by ingenuity, divorcing people from old media regimes fixated on controlling availability; so too would a divorce be due between people and imposed and perceived availability of housing. even cheap housing is too expensive in principle. maybe there is value in having multiple concurrent options - i dont care about the box, i just want a box around me wherever i currently am for other reasons - just like the idea that cars are irrelevant, but rather it is getting from from a to b that is the main concern.

Wednesday, March 25 2009
-badidea- lolzy -- smurf universe replaced with jew; jewberries, papajew, handyjew, grumpyjew, jew omniverb

Thursday, March 26 2009
watching red state blue state poor state rich state
-badidea- red voters should get mccain and palin and blue voters should get obama. a 2 system nation. if reds are so afraid of becoming poorer under a democratic nanny state system then let them find out at their own cost just how far they can yet descend.

Friday, March 27 2009
while watching a conference on branding marketing of conventional products, including foods - rendering an unfavorable sentiment to that sector of the economy - awful drivel that I would welcome seeing the demise of. It really highlights the reality of the dunce consumer phenomenon times 300 million in USA alone. However, my subjective anti sentiment seems to be balanced out by my objective observations of systems and abstractions, leaving my troubled by not rushing in foolhardy into miscellaneous errors.
Need to fit non consumerism, a non reliance on everyone constantly going to the mall to sustain a western economy. Not flipping houses. Not going out to drink coffee and wine and dine. Not be burdened with a mortgage and other debts. So what else is there? What is the motivator to sustain economic commitments when there is no personal debt or petty desires? Could shift to other petty desires, like gear, or other new and old services that would support a cyber society - even if that is a niche audience. Basics are still valid, like food, shelter, utilities, institutions. It would have to be a self adjusting system, not dependent on massive tax burden and elitist governmental redistributions and resulting structures, but rather more of an anarchistic libertarian model. Today's big ticket items are military industrial complex, inappropriate medicine, and disposable consumerism high taxation, immovable bureaucracies and flipping - further bolstered by directed top down culture. Would economic upheaval and cultural decentralization via internet become the change? Facilitating faster cycle times for darwinian innovation, such as massive outpoor of participation or spontaneous boycotts. Also the net must be on, as it is a self organizing attractor, compelling participation while routing around errors and inefficiencies. As time goes on, reliance on the internet increases, evermore so that any elitism opting to turn off a node will cause a societal collapse, localized and with cascading features, usually responding with innovative resiliences. This is yet to be tested with case study patterns. Something must be done, something must be identified.

Friday, March 27 2009
watching alan boss presentation at long now looking for planets.
on bh, on interplanetary scale, per previous drawn out time scale making organisms hard to spot because of misaligned time windows. well, inversely, fill the void with many unit and spotting will be easier. what have we not found yet, ask and put aside? what is constant among all organisms is they alter their environment, by moving resources, optimizing arrangements or whatever - a change in environment is the foot print across all known scales of organisms. world or bh hunters, or et intelligence needs to look for change along those lines, rather than current research of looking for lateral and Doppler wobbles. granted that current research is simply a progression in innovation, not needing to be helpful, only to continue progress. Conventional markers includes moving horizons of tv transmissions, space junk, nuclear detonations. not yet looked at are reflections and interference patterns, in horizons and derivatives, including hallmarks. to explore known game changing phenomena, like gravitational waves which are currently in the process of basic detection, but may be a future signal probe for complex signals. complex signal hypothesis may derive work where a science and concept form chicken and egg problems.

Friday, March 27 2009
In a scenario where the best and brightest, and even nominal, become engaged in scientific work, while the rest engage in basic economic activity, there would be a far greater availability of scientific output, vastly accelerating cycle times of output.

Friday, March 27 2009
The economic system, and humanity output, could make, identify and assimilate the best and brightest to integrate into the system that feeds into the bh. It may be clearly doing this already, maybe on an unexpected timescale and methods.

Friday, March 27 2009
Differentiate between routines science, like planet hunting, contemporary space vehicles, ergonomics, advanced chemistry, etc. - and high concept game changer science, like that from Newton, Darwin, Einstein. Theoretical physicists are the closes that come to that but have become routine. If one per century then maybe we are due for the next science golden child, or their idea and person have not been identified yet, or is is generally due within a decade or two. Routine research based science builds capacity, like technology builds network speed and storage, with an incidental benefit being the contemporary internet and derivatives.

Saturday, April 04 2009
-badidea- while wasting time on ebay. cottage industry and self employment. make fashion items. anything and stick it on ebay. there is not much stuff there. good or interesting stuff is especially limited. variety sucks. the good thing about fashion is that it is a cottage industry, can be made anywhere by anyone, and without any forward commitment - you think of something, make it and put it out there, stop or change any time. seems easy to create value. seems easy to scale, lots of idle hands with no vision. satisfies a constant want. merit based. open source ideas. Integrates into idea producing society.

Sunday, April 05 2009
-badidea- to responsibly and non destructively mitigate civil protest crowds, gas them with weed.

Tuesday, April 07 2009
group aptitude index. take out the geniuses and the dunces, and average the remaining of the group to get the group's propensity to be able to make stuff. identify group overlays that compose new things, versus the other ones, may identify interesting factors.

Monday, April 13 2009
-badidea- watching video with Jacqueline Novogratz, sayit to whom much is given much is expected; failing to connect the dots: evolution was given over a decade ago, moore's law was given decades ago, failing to create abstractions that show what is set to fail and what would succeed. see past helping individuals, institutions are and old model also, look at what clearly succeeds. maybe apply and speed play conventional history to arrive at successful models. also on micro finance, it seems like it is sustainable and profitable, and may be a story of success over conventional finance against current bank collapses; maybe the lesson to take away is to identify a size beyond which a banking industry is unsustainable and destined to fail or can be show as a net loss to its context society, and a spirit of denial under a confidence based economy.

Thursday, May 07 2009
-badidea- watched Authors@Google Peter Schiff. Clearly there are differing views on the economy and economics. Shiff is a libertarian - in my view classically prudent at face value but simplistic and inconsistent with competing patterns that show long term consistency, but I suspect that economcis camps are like ideologies. There are competing models of how the world works. All of humanity consumes, works, and produces change, change over an extended term. The driver in my view is deterministic per the program. Individual were not cognizant of what they are contributing because the long view is not visible within real time, or even time frame and ability to see. Alternative models also include: nothing ever changes, or acknowledging relative changes per a variety of models. My takeaway here is: determinism, and change over time; both are visible via the long view and models. I still would like to know what is the solution or the next end state, and if my hunch re general post materialism will take and efficient allocation of labor (with finance being a construct, and land being artificially limited, labor in general is the finite input for change or the processor of general transformation).

Monday, May 18 2009
-badidea- always pit pests against other pests, like the farmers and CSIRO. our habitat is being rendered in habitable, or otherwise harmful to our wellbeing, by something that is seeing us as pests; the poor are pitted against other poor, prison inmates are put with other such like, rich are taken advantage of by other rich. a novelty mode, an innovation to the system, has a temporary advantage, before it destroys its host or balances out. this is in an event view, not bh2 time spanning view. drawing out of that, industry like the fossil fuel industry, is has a seemingly self evident design to use it's host but let it run its life cycle. At the end of the cycle it metamorphosis into a more advanced arrangement, still sustained by the host. At this point the host can be abstracted as a substrate. Incidentally the justice is built into the sin; grubby with grubby for generations, but if a linage shoots off from that then life cycle propositions are different and linage goes somewhere else. Example: from an initial mixed pool, merit or functional behavior traces a tendency to separate one form type from another. to conclude, the common social entity systemically sin bins offenders with patterns of preventable and self inflicted conditions to consistent rewards. For example poor working class suburbs, slums, common class, and the elites - one clear signature is visible by looking at where people live, what they do, and how they live. my error was inclusion on a level playing field; this is naive and not reflected by evidence, also nowhere is there a initial state unless one is arbitrarily selected as a reference point. revised, the substrate has merit and function, where even merit resolves into function. ancillary conclusion: current distribution of substrate qualities are self optimized for best results forward, if a bh mind is at the helm, otherwise it is just normal complexity. of course normal complexity does not explain anything so it should not be used as an explanation as it does not add value to information so is inconsistent with a linage of abstraction development corresponding to state of the art science.

Friday, 22 May 2009
for webcam gestures. use a reference shape, like eye wear or a finger gesture, for size and depth rotation reference. tracking a shape should be a lot easier then guessing an arbitrary point because there is more data to infer from.

Sunday, 5/31/09 10:28 PM
-badidea- youtube Alva Noe; network event, if an event is not happening at a cellular or neural level yet it is happening nonetheless then it is happening in the network, per previous idea of something like wave over substrate, flat and n dimentional. The dude is looking at the wrong thing, but producing an interesting body of dialog that my be useful at some point to me; an alternative me type agent to refer to for whatifs.

6/6/09 7:13 PM
-badidea- watching Rodney Brooks on robotics and computation. netbook 2 webcam system, or otherwise sensing, put on top of car dashboard to watch the road and interface with car controls. brute force computation offloaded to the could in real time. the cloud input gains real world experience and controls learning. the AI needs to build prediction simulation and compare to real world sensing to fill gaps in perception. my in, programming netbook AI with could brute force computation.

Thursday, 6/11/09 1:16 PM
-badidea- after reading re recall of bacteria laden sanitizing lotion. need portable available microscope. just a lens with a cam, with maybe different colored LEDs for some kind of multi spectrum inspection, including UV. Cheap. works on stuff around, as well as body samples, just put it up against your skin. must have high magnification, which is not difficult to achieve with a handful of tiny lenses, on a wheel perhaps. should use a generic 8mp cd. unit is about as complex as a cheap camera. a diy solution will do just fine.

20090714 after reading slashdot re NASA deorbiting ISS , NASA does not have ownership of it. if they try to pull out their modules peacefully then the rest of the consortium can reconfigure the station to do without, even replace. if negotiations degenerate utterly and US still insists then they would have to blow it up. such an event would cause a long lasting cloud of orbiting debris, knocking out existing hardware in a domino effect. further, it would render orbital space destructing to future mission -- no more satellite technology. also, other space missions would be imperiled, or canceled, if the debris field makes earth orbit destructive to all vehicles. the net effect could be a denial of access to space for the foreseeable future. all of this with one hostile act by anyone. There would be downward consequences, cultural and logistical. On the upside, it could be an earth saving plan for catastrophic incoming objects up to a certain size -- a meteor shield, albeit with grave consequences, a lesser evil.

Sunday, 8/9/09 1:02 PM
-badidea- on the motion model, if the information arrangement is static under 4d. to discover destiny is to retrace forward to the origin of the discovery. previously, if information arrangement is one way only, because of stacking or dependence on prior state, hence forbidding effective time travel forward, and having an unresolved change wave backward, then to fixate on a discovery course determines future event and hence writes back a change wave of events leading up to the discovery moment. here discovery means an event with associated information that seemingly is a point of convergence for any number of space time features, an unmistakable nexus feature. also here time travel backward affects large events, because blank cannot be localized, almost like it resembles a probabilistic model such as the electron cloud around the atom.
-badidea- i'm not interested in what you have, or being a part of what is already being done. i am interested in what we don't have but aught to. the exception is removing a supply constraint on what you have.

8/12/09 3:34 PM
-badidea- Shara mentioned subjectivity and something clicked. is subjectivity tied, indicative of, or otherwise, to the idea of internally modeling the outside world. in turn, if perception is strongly tied to internal modeling and subjectivity is strongly tied to it, then objective reality can take on all manner of nature. the self test or sanity check is to use agreed measuring sticks and other devices to nail down reality and discuss it in common terms, which is normal. The secondary point here is the apparent lacking of systematic exploration and understanding of the nature and severity of subjectivity on the personal, group, human collective scale. What comes to mind are happenings like Fox News and self described conservatives exploiting subjectivity like a virus, and the condition does not seem to have an evolved solution on the personal scale, or at least there is a polarizing effect and self selection, ebbing towards a conjecture of sub speciation over generations. An additional speculative leap, via bh, would be that if bh is a driver and getting off the planet is the next determined step then there may be a requirement for a vast class of scientist type, just in order to make that layer of zeitgeist technology work. There is a supply chain for materials and processing, and then there is a front that uses those resources to move outward. Said that, reserving the option to redefine what is outward; as bh already indicated earlier, out may simply be in a logical sense, but sub species polarization would be required at the point where going up is imminent and needs talented operators, before the up option is equalized and wide divergence reoccurs.

A consequential to the above, a physically polarizing result might occur if there comes a point where personal safety is a concern. Today on huffpo a piece indicates the rise of crazy militia groups in America. If that potential time bomb starts to go off then the preexisting logical polarization of personalities may mirror physically also. Self selection, where like minded persons simply opt out of the mainstream and the heartland, and opt into high tech pockets. Over only a few generations, breeding effects will amplify this. The magic believers will be in equipped, and in turn opt out of such pockets and into mainstream. Self selection works both ways. Now, since these pockets already exist, it is easy to assume that this already happened. The result is already in place, rather than this being a conjecture to do with some future state.

later, while watching unscientific america talk. try the opposite scenario: accelerate the polarization. factor out obstacles like government. transnational corporations may be the key. If this already happened then what would it look like? Petrochem, agribusiness, silicon valley. The corporate entities are the promised land, with resources, decoupled from national border confines, merit based, leveraging large groups, going for winner takes all. Is there a corporate race for sovereignty? I the next fronter offworld, where the required power to seize assets and defund is impractical, even for sovereign super powers, especially when corporations are embedded in all superpowers.

Friday, 8/14/09 11:38 AM
before leaving for tafe. let the dogs out of the house; mother locked them in before leaving for errands. it's a perfect day to be outside.
-badidea- why not, existing robot bodies have a lack of brain to navigate, so give them a human driver. keep the autonomous technology for auto pilot. a human driver inside of an immersion interface should be able to walk any device no matter how clumsy; movement macros may be useful. existing robots are a dime a dozen, only missing a suitable interface to optimize their application.

Sunday, 8/16/09
-badidea- from yesterday when watching swedish crime dvd. human agent grid, or virtual grid. human agents able to take on a misc task via browser interface. enter any remote sensing object, or robotic object anywhere and solve or do what needs doing. human agents like a protocol human
-badidea- from few days ago while walking back home. agent cluster managing an emergency call: cluster initiates when call begins, one agent interfaces with emergence taking the call, other agents initiate and manage field agent dispatches, remote sensors, remote robots, case is handled by an invisible human cluster with combined resources far exceeding a call operator and passive systems as is now.
-badidea- predictive simulator. take reality video, apply reality augmented overly with object movement predictor traces, and history traces. also any other scene relevant predictors based on heuristics.
-badidea- expert hive, expert cluster. resilient to destruction of knowledge held within.
-badidea- indicators of successful human scalable systems: birth/death rate, migration rate
-badidea- axiom: money is not absolute but has a task to do: produce activity. hence, it should always be fiat. shrinking supply always as adverse effects. everything else can be adjusted for. never peg your activity rate to a commodity like via a gold standard. gold standard is a a stupid absolutism by today's standards, requirements, and expectations. commonalities are begged to supply and demand, technology, and taxation. why would you want to peg it to gold? try plutonium or some exotic material that you have a monopoly on and can control supply.

20090823
- while on ACT return train, watching watchmen - on train. landscapes are mesmerizing. like seeing complexity in fractals. not interesting in any typical way, but still an eyeball magnet.
- the prius is a future classic car.

Sun 06 Sep 2009 11:12:27 EST
light from all over the universe passes us to be observable, not all light but a lot. a lot of information passes a modest point that we simply observe. so how much do we miss just because we only occupy this one vantage point? or is most info inferable with a relatively small data set?

note2self
Thu 10 Sep 2009 16:38:31 EST
just failed finrep test1.
re live live to the fullest.no
live life in it's entirety, consider the entire time line. plan to place things onto the line, the entirety will resolve into something unforeseen; components recombine in unforeseen ways.
living everyday as it comes is erroneous, clearly.
micromanaging is also erroneous outside of the task at hand.

also re suit, sleeping outside, vr headset for inducing environmentals into rem sleep. needs conditions, like temperature controls and gravity (for that positioning will need to be applied). a borgian sleep, or programmed sub cycle can be induced and applied anywhere. domicile and domicile cost decoupling can be achieved. safety is a concern; solution is to undergo stasis in a secure plain sight area, off transport as that would be inefficient, just a public place maybe. via the show of sufficient consideration (fashion clout), acceptance could be gained.

Sun 13 Sep 2009 15:57:44 EST
-badidea- proliferation of brain defects and variations, is what is causing unreasonable and absurd societal behaviors. in villages, in small groups, the effects are not visible or are not as open to abstraction. in large societies, all manner of bad behavior that is normally frowned upon is manifested to such an extent where it can be studied, almost as a separate entity to the presumingly reasonable whole. with respect to statistical limits, behavior outside of normal range is substantial enough to take on it's own existence.

Thu 17 Sep 2009 11:54:19 EST
-badidea- via slashdot on-body circuits. sense remapping and augmenting via applying mechanical stimulants to skin areas. the skin offers a lot of surface to feed extra information via.

20090928
-badidea- housing should be free. most basic housing. like food. there is so much of it, and can be made so easily.

Sun 04 Oct 2009 09:17:45 EDT

-badidea- whole room and hallways clad with whiteboards. student dialog. lots of interaction. a constant dialog with usage of boards. experimental study and collaboration approach.

-badidea- from last night's insomnia moment. framework for my venture into uni study. inquiry into culture processes. under grad course work. identify local thinkers on experimental living arrangements, report. diagram. experimental approaches in living arrangements. active experimentation with pods, shares, clusters, for usability, for social effectiveness, for collaboration. find existing uni areas that support this and build on it. find like minded interested persons. produce report, recommendations into further study, with a view to win funding grants, and academic team buildout. examine possibilities. build project wikis.

-badidea- living tube pods for sleeping (like from before; yet to be typed from my paper notes). fbt based on cost, which is low. rest of time would not attract fbt because are only staff amenities, like toilets, kitchens, and common areas. housing factored out, i suspect.

-badidea- waterless shower. faporise oil and sweat residue from the skin by a shot of steam or directed localised infrared heat light while blowing the vapor away with high speed air. when water supply is limited, heavy to carry (like on a plane), or installing a shower is too burdensom.

-badidea- from before. install tubes for bedding, transport, staysis.

-badidea- relative wormage, where worm is person spanning space time over a life time. worms are now longer than ever because of increasd life spans. also because of travel, where effective worm in terms of information encountered is longer. also via information input from the web and media, where we might be effectively living more than one life time vicariously, by being exposed to other person's experiences, and even non persons (eveven abstractions) via information that describes experience. the brain's exposure to more than one lifetime of information, and via more than own person is effectively lenghtening the self worm.

-badidea- active google twitter cross. when thining and writing, a panel would show relevant items from the net. would show old and current activities relating to your current activity. on mass this could result in an active incidental dialog with all persons attached to the machine. augments recall. facilitates self forming groups based on an idea in progress, acting like neurons in a brain, adding to bh activity.

-badidea- gravity sails. if you had a rudder, via another medium. travel. use gravity for effective propulsion. eg. to go up but need a fluid and a rudder that attaches to that fluid to create a traversal ease difference.

-badidea- parasail for container ships, like existing designs that save fuel. but boost the sail to a higher altitude vai a hydrogen filled baloon. higher altitude wind is more powerful and constant. needs a light weight high strenght tether.

-badidea- overnight, had an amazing badidea episode during 4am insomnia. data objects for persons, for companies, match people to jobs; gesture stereo usb webcam for depth, grabbing, simpler than multitouch and with depth only needs software; audio stereo emitter, send wavelet, only needs software for interesting sound radar space rendering; add rich sound to ui with directionality, should solve for blind people. lack of housing and other are natural self regulating parts of system to spur labor output and innovation, non free market provision fails to exist, struggles are essential, creative destruction cycles are essential and should happen more frequently, war and construction exercise the supply chain mirroring person behavior of exercise. essential to think in the dark, the act of interacting with a screen or any outside input stream may stop the process. the priesthood are the economists and academic pundits, my narrative my be in the form of scifi (self limiting) or self help. try session on A0 paper. the best medium for creative though is the mind in a creative state; technology is only a communication medium. solve for ui with fast information assimilation, solve my course work; solve subject matter via suitable ui layout and presentation. datasets and parsing are key; google and open gov are giving ever more datasets; parsers and interactors are the way to process datasets, like persons against companies giving economy views and metaviews that can provide further interaction; equations; the priesthood interacts with equations. add value, like extend life, and all things that increase productivity, bh demands productivity.

Saturday, December 12 2009

on management theory

contrast models: effective, optimised, sub optimised, cash cows, markets

market overlays: spam types, service types, government types; resilience, me too-ism

model non change: stability indicators and derivatives

market/activity types: deep ocean trawling, drift netting, hooking

is the appearance of thought and congnition, and expectation of it, is it it? how does i relate to our knowledge of our minds. how do reactionary market place and governemntal doings relate to own thought process.

badidea2010

2010-08-15T18:11:00.002+10:00

This page contains misc thoughts jotted down before forgetting them. In general, anything found here is no good at all, but occasionally I revisit it.

Monday, January 04 2010 Some people need a vast income to maintain their lifestyle, that has not net benefit; other's less with similar results. A person's activity intent can be ranked for merit. What equity is bequeathed can continue to play that role. If given to a moron it becomes a net waste, maybe offsetting the giver's net merit.
Live along and connected to a logistics and communication network, at the lowest available price. This prevents the dilution of one's merit rank, by minimizing wasting money hence effort on indulgences that have no lasting value. However the consequence may be that one cannot go outside, not in the same sense as one would if he lived in a nice area. Also there is a hidden cost of living in low cost distant housing, that is the cost of wasting time on logistics, the cost of wasting health, the cost of wasting overhead money on supporting services like logistics and higher costs of delivering other services, the cost of opportunities by not being where activity happens. Which criteria should we optimize for? Or should we aggregate and optimize? Should we solve a system problem by addressing availability in the name of maximizing societal benefits in spite of apparently self optimized systems, or to push for improvements at a normal rate? Should we explore game changers by identifying what is in propagation already and accelerate the propagation as a meme?

Wednesday, January 27 2010 zoom gesture, use accelerometer, move slate away to zoom out, move slate toward to zoom in.

20100117 just geometry. all discovery, especially about natural systems are a determination of the shape, structure and geometry. once know, can be traveled and changed based on our motivations. this can apply to work, organization, biology, physics, any grand unified theory of everything. if geometry is fractal and layered, or complex and plural, then connection and interaction needs to be derived. geometry can be used to abstract derivatives up, down, across, or transly if enough is know. this approach can allow for gaps in knowledge to be later completed, like the with the periodic table approach.

20100118 watching haiti news and its useless government; also remembering a doco on baltimore with interview of the director. there are 3 groups: the group that consists of those who are innately disconnected persons (with relatively few social interactions and poor employment prospects) are an excess humanity, not really part of the other humanity (who works and is effective in their relations with society); the ruling and administrative class; and the normal group. hence my previous guess that getting persons online benefits BH seems unsupported.

20100125 found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_mind_(science_fiction) group mind, with a good definition: a consciousness spread over multiple individuals. just interesting. no integration with culture, technology, or difference in timescale, and scalability.

note2self: if i get lost then restarting at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness the poorly scoped problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind the old problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness the undefined (dont understand hence cannot build), despite the long run at trying to to explain it with conventional analysis and thinking

20100203 while consuming some fora re hati. no apparent shrink wrapped strategy and technologies for managing disaster. re networks, markets, dysfunctions and shortages auto reporting and analytics. needs an open source framework project or multiple.

Monday, February 08 2010 costume, professor farnsworth, lab coat from tafe shop, slippers, lookup pants and top, glasses

17 Feb 2010 19:05:45 EST while coming off a train, after seeing a blind man elsewhere, he had a cane and a sonic range finder with ear phones. mid device with apps for blind people. the device already has a good resolution camera and place/orientation awareness. a camera app should be developed that translates video information into usuaful stereo auditory output. any other sensors should also be creatively deployed to render a rich scape.

Tuesday, March 02 2010 after another countless walk through the central tunnel. there should/could be a self service site for buskers/performers. If it was to exist then it should facilitate better following and reduce venue overlap. Of course there is myspace for some of this function, just no map/calendar overlay, but that kind of a time machine does not seem to exist in the know web universe. too hard / low yield. Also totally scalable and would likely be more applicable to other geo locations. Such a solution would have to leverage existing platforms so as to not proliferate junk tech.

Thursday, March 04 2010 while reading re roomba bot. wifi rc webcam bot. all components are cheap. to check on your house remotely.

Thursday, March 04 2010 To avoid patent infringement, sell smartphones with only a basic phone os, essentially just the hardware that has patents built into the platform already. Then also give an opt in screen that is a selector to download a free os of choice, eg. android. the free distro would give better resilience against damages. The distro maker is community based and has no revenues, hence can only be injunctioned and present a lesser target for future actions. Incidentally distro popularity would be merit based.

Mon 15 Mar 2010 13:41:05 EST from earlier. emergency media repository, to upload photos, geo temporal comentary and other media that is monitored by emergency services. instead of just 000 to describe verbally. could be a live video link to an current incident.

Monday, March 22 2010 after watching ted david logan tribalism - there are different types levels of internode communication, not just the rich stuff but also lesser signals and actions; internet shows this via different media. keep that in mind re groups. on polling world opinion, signal novelty; economic activity is not the only signal -- internet activities, other activities; hence there is an opportunity for a novel pulse, as they system tries and fails many, obviously.

Tuesday, March 23 2010 while watching sbs re dark matter. universe as a wave on a plane of unknowable substrate. stuff moves with the plane. information about the stuff travels like ripples across the plane, picking up information by distorting the wave, what we see as light or other illumination. energy may be added by yet unknown secondary plane, like a bow going over a string in a violin, but in multi plane. something like that would explain the rotation velocity problem of rotating cosmic bodies. universe as soup, larger objects interact with one another to some extent but are otherwise suspended in a fluid that has its own movement. if the fluid has it's own currents and eddies then the apparent failure of gravity to account for observed movement would be relieved.

Sunday, March 28 2010 convince fringe environmentalists to become maximum polluters. for game, out of spite, for demonstration. if the reluctant majority fail grasp the point and show change then dam them all and let's race to the bottom. if regular climate change is inevitable then why delay. the sooner it resolves the sooner can move forward. the same cost will be tolled regardless. alternatives are coming forth. culture war is persistent. voluntary opt ins have a poor track record. the collective neo-con seems manages to innovate against just cause. only tangible oppressions are responded to, possibly ever else history is revised to suit. a newbee trailing edge and corresponding delusion is part of the persistence. all change is an adaptation to requirements, not options. progression through the cycle may reveal other counter intuitives of earlier stages, at first fighting the ideas as we may.

Fri 09 Apr 2010 19:37:22 EST while reading nm on train to canberra. yesterday i saw a video preview of a phone app natural language processor that gives answers and interacts by voice alone. i need an ai. everybody needs an ia. become an ai. transfer into it. with trodes if you have such; else by training your ai by interacting with it, by giving it input of my life, all the communication, all visual input, let it learn. would know that the method is working when the prediction mirrors my intent, with answers prefetching, construct building, integration of all information, datasets, visuals, constructs. in time it could give further value by replicating itself into agents into other systems and substrates. when using large datasets, set operators, differential operations, and the like will produce only such limited results. aim for operating all available information. the ai would help where the interface fails. also an ai, ai types, evolutionary ai, ai linages seem like logical projections. with better code programs can reduce into their genome refactors, small and powerful. then it is a case of informing the ai, by a common substrate overlay. could people and ais have a many to many relationship, where the ais are just interfaces, with their own existances, then plan on many to many ai to ai interaction producing just a nother meta substrate. the bh would alter quckly surely, accelerating to something else. it would be intersting to see how it would inform itself and it's agents at all levels and onto further derivatives. even with the current state of the art, with chip based nodes, eyes, robot tenticles, it seems that that part is still in an ameoba state at real time, where it is swolowing up resources, producing higher order, altering it's context; and then what. components at all levels seem to be fullfilling their role consistantly; regardless of in fighting re ethics and distribution of resources; a drive to higher orders of organization are a persistant theme. incidentally, people in prefab cubicle huts, organized and optimized for utilitarian conditions would satisfy this drive at least for a while until a more novel approach becomes obvious. my ideal, or that of ethics driven assumptions happen to be inconsistaant with a drive for complexity where complexity satisfies variations for persistance rather than a mono state; unless conditions become normalized to optimize for blank production -- intra body conditions seem normalized by security and feedstock provisions. a universal drive for security of feedstocks and rule normalization is a driver -- provide it to the bh as it is what it wants. environmental substrate non uniformity can be overcome by the former plus supply chains. where the genome codes for variation resiliance and innovation by recombination, it stabilizes and thrives rampantly in ideal conditions -- hence what happens in a closed system may illustrate what is the normative outcome, by looking at cultures, bacterial, fungal, all other, culture collisions, closed and open systems (open systems should produce variation as it moves outward, which feeds back change waves and collisions --- this could be an interesting new science branching) {this could be an interessing session}

-n2s- remember that there is a race. produce a self idea, some construct, a resilience that can be passed on, or something. passing time or jobbing will never produce a good result for me and will always fail.

Thursday, May 06 2010 after watching ted Simon Sinek, on why, after chat with andrew re black hole systems v systems that leak information; i want to inform my system. the nefarious black hole spying type system is useless, and indicated as such by it's lack of evident output. alternatively an opt in system that attracts information and gives back is a tool for a larger entity from which all members benefit. the opt in scale is an indicator of legitimacy.

Thursday, May 13 2010 expecting disappointment but hopeful of a breakthrough

Monday, May 17 2010 n2s: don't try to act out your fantasies; it is not required or ideal; remember the race; why; why do you live; drink water

Tuesday, May 25 2010 dui decimal system

Tuesday, May 25 2010 low level anger to rsvp, bad idea: treat all storage space (hyper libera) as cloud starage by a duper computer. noticed that rsvp is a fairfax property; just a fact.

Thursday, May 27 2010 day 3 about after up to dating sites. figured out that maybe dating should be taken as a flow process, not as discrete now to forever hopeful things. what all social, work, personal processes can be treated as flow processes? seed, water regularly, attend to, something always yields.

Wednesday, June 02 2010 before i forget. kerzwel. look at that look at that look at that. hawking, i can calculate my special hawking radiation. what if hawking radiation is not perse, but an information artifact coming out of mathematics. other forgotten already; maybe about constructs. re hr, information is an observable component/phenomenon, like lensing.

Monday, June 07 2010 on doing a sociology course. first complete bh to it's fullest extent, test it, find some use. then do a basic sociology degree for a systematic exposure to the entirety of sociology, integrating and testing bh, so to get an informed placing of bh, to be able to defend it and discuss it's configuration expertly. but. the anti existence proof against all existing ideas is the apparent lack of breakthrough, even an apparent lack of rockstar status persons; there is no hawking/dawkins/crick types coming from sociology. it is a dead end auspice. the sociology tribe is more like the management tribe, a thought experiment that got a budget allocated to anybody who was willing and able to craft any work about it. Make your own inroads; if anything useful comes of it then it will get an existence proof.

Monday, June 14 2010 badidea: organize a scifi night with agent show up failure tolerance, a theme [party] before i go; this should be a regular event. going forward, should make this a regular event. ample subjects, human and topical; forgot. just collect the persons. abstract. could make a micro colony.
also from earlier, the extended darwinian process recreating redundant wave fronts until a breakthrough or a weight pressure - as just a process.

the eliza influence, i could explain it to you but will need a white board; with times series wave and excitement magnitude to indicate inspiration moments.

Saturday, June 26 2010 remember the massage in bottles. for future unknown recipients. some probability of interest and do. large numbers. much of the observable universe is available to any point in space that you happen to occupy, so access to information is quite good, and the model should be followed. the infosphere, in any sense, seems like a good starting point.

Friday, June 25 2010 02:51 AM -badidea- earlier, watched youtube re emmy. annoyed with the messiness of physics; somewhat bothered with my apparent lack of sweeping knowledge.
re race: approach: usefulness. activity: no change from an annoyed observer. other sentiments and ideas mostly not written; internal rumination.on finding work: showing up and demonstrating as willing and able is not sufficient. one has to prove oneself that he is an regular and well formed imbecile is given. wanting, always wanting, more of the same. the more driving force. self selection is a law of nature, and it rarely forgives, if at all. and for some reason something within refuses participation, going to exotic measures to over compensate while avoiding some kind of compromise. occasionally a methodology that accommodates both world is derived and applied, but is probably temporary. exotic other other methods are internally conjured and processed, for when all else fails. this temporary situation.
unrelated, it had occurred to me earlier, borrowed, that there is a lack of vocabulary for native expression of cognition for any number of areas.
unrelated, blueprint for accountability. why is there a thought driver for the global and time inconsistency, for the moral thing.

Thursday, July 08 2010 after reading on bb re software patent threat and a java implementation of song signatures. if you have any assets you will be stopped under legal threat of having your assets stripped from you. how can your work and life not be undermined by formal systems? participate in cash only economies and self employment, leasing instead of buying. or, work companies, where pay is little but there is swap in kind, a kind of inner company credit system without paying out to the employee but making transaction between third parties and the company on the employee's direction. trust is essential. these are non trade expenses. fringe benefits such as food and accommodation can not be garnished surely. also employer payments to family trusts as other expenses could be useful, until a court orders garnishment; but at least all transfers until now are safe from litigation. future transactions would have to use corporate veils and sham transactions, which may put the main employer in a compromised position, unless a service is also provided where the employee can nominate an expense for the company to deal with another smaller company that provides the sham service, where the small company has no assets and cant be disposed of. seems like the doings of the haves, also there seems to be a lot of overhead. for the little people, china seems to demonstrate the model with employment, food, and security in exchange for work. alternatively do part time work only, but that would limit one's productivity unless that remaining productivity is channeled into something like the above. all defeat oppressive conduct by other parties or the government via the government or societal protocols that are gamed for oppressive purposes that enrich oppressive third parties.
we want to keep existing complexities because of the stability and good that they produce, in absence of anything better forthcoming. but the complexity increases, as does systemic schizophrenia and societal mishonesty to itself. in a time of stability such complexity flourishes.

Tuesday, July 20 2010 Don't design, but evolve. a protocol for evolving a solution. All future solutions should be evolved. Arrived at by testing, evidence, iterations. Problems are not getting solved using classical design.

Tuesday, August 10 2010 when a natural resource has a market then it is like money on the table, not to be left. simple people have simple desires for ordinary resources, expressed in pooled activity.
people tend to not change, and are not receptive to incompatible ideas. campaigning and drumming the message do not seem to have effect. however, resources expressed in money create activity. a large will of money expresses activity that may impress on individuals, like leading by example and not just pay rhetoric.
democracy is dysfunctional. the premise is that everybody is equal, originating from a ruling class where they were of equal mind competent enough to direct their commercial ventures, wealthy enough to express their desires, and equally influential by pooling vast resources to their will. translated to the general population where people are not equal in any of these attributes, has the result that we have, with voting blocks unbending to reason and unoptimized. they only principle still applicable is darwinian selection. but even the most seemingly obtuse groups find survival niches. if survivability, security, and common luxury are assured, then all that remains are ideas if they have a suitable substrate. the super substrate has is not uniform. uniformly distributed objects should be considered, and their implied values. if the practice of democracy is not dynamic, or slow at best, then what is the fast change vector? information discriminates against recipients based on compatibility. communication discriminates based on network connections. physical objects discriminate based on money and supply chains. but each in a different way, compensates for another (idea influenced by vid of android sensor fusion). also the reason why large pools of wealth are not creating change quickly may be because thy act on different time scales, like private space ventures or solar pv production capacity -- there maybe strange constraints like those that seem to apply to flash memory that changed the curve recently or maybe a down tick because of demand caused by more gadgets that use them.

Saturday, July 31 2010 TED, Lewis Pugh. Sustainable, long term, humbling, from 3b to 6b people. no. these are processors, channeling energy and resources, while processing something. bh to be seen with those terms. not with withholding, which is counter observation.

Later while in car while reading Hitch. The fallacy of origin. The fallacy probably comes from the notion of birth as the beginning of a person and the western idea of individuality, where there is a start and and end -- hence everything else in the processes of life requires a beginning and an end. Life on earth, or life as we know it, can also be modeled as a continuous process, where the birth and death and overlaps, across countless bodies, resembles as a continuous process. Much of non human life, and especially not tied to today's contemporary culture, is a continuity -- a continuity of intra cellular processes; a continuity of intra colony processes; a continuity of biosphere. The requirement of genesis, a starting point for anything is a limited human abstract, suffering farther at the hand of some religion as well as a narrow language.

Later also as above. Swarming, in economies. Simple engagements, between a person and the economy, have simple results where most persons sell a labor commodity, at low gain. Others engage the economy needle-like though the mass, benefiting from simple one to many catch, one to one at a high rate. Others still drift net the mass, offering a scalable product. Governments have a 3 dimensional engagement, at all points.

Sun 01 Aug 2010 16:54:44 EDT while at jfk reading hitch, on greece, remembering the ted/g genocide issue video. failing states, when faced with power vacuum or weak leadership institutions, tend to fall to the right extremists or a junta. genocides tend to be routine events, under extreme temporary conditions with amicable leadership. to solve: cannot stop naturally occurring events, as no corresponding method had come forth. but the novel internet overlay adds non traditional faculties to civilisation; it diffuses and does not forget. coupling the internet's qualities with a traditional list of naming names, and accumulating files on personalities could over a future solution. that is, a crowd sourced solver for the accumulation of files on perpetrators, with an implied promise of later redress. such a method would also offer swift feedback to the system, with no place to hide, and under ubiquity and issue-personality-instantiation, no where to hide either. cutting edge patterns also indicate x prize systems, like rewards or traditional like bounties, for forcing activity gravitation. but again, what stands in the way is the man-machine interface problem, a work in progress by the bh perhaps. on details, to build a network profile of everybody involved, who they connect to and what they do, a most public outing. this does go counter to the privacy concept, but the vanguard is fb -- the people had already capitulated to near zero privacy, in the face of privacy legislations -- fb proved it wrong, and the people gravitated, away from governmental assumptions and held beliefs.

Sun 01 Aug 2010 19:55:22 EDT while reading hitch, on his mother's death. on the myth of an individual's character, or the one-self. since history there is a believe that a person has one personality. this concept informs and is informed by language, the western languages at least. it is also probably learned, received and handed down. it may be a simple self perpetuating error, but effective nonetheless for societal and systemic purposes. so what if it is an error. with contemporary ideas of pluralism and aggregate results that manifest, an upgraded model may be called for and demonstrate to be useful as a new tool. as established with the aid of relatively sophisticated technology, the brain is a massively parallel processor substrate. Without too much of a stretch, what manifests as internal thoughts or otherwise the thinking that we do as individuals is by the previous statement an aggregate result. It could be said that what we experience as sequential thought is an internal brain trick that uses a cursor, like internal dialogue, speak, reading, hand eye coordination, voluntary movement, eye gaze, and such, where the range of internal thought narrows down to or gravitates on the singular. this guess is aside from clinical descriptions of multiple personalities, manic depressives, having conflicting concurrent ideas, etc. contemporary psychology, and the use of personality types, or suicide types for example, continues to fail in accurately modelling persons who commit suicide that do not fall into the categories. if the model is simply too primitive then the result is no surprise. so consider the multiple, for lack of a suitable vocabulary. to illustrate, one can be reading a book and be thinking something unrelated at the same time; have a conversation with a person sitting opposite and be thinking about another matter -- this can be done with some degree of reliability, and mostly be aware and responsive to the auto stuff that corresponds to minding the immediate surroundings. so there may be multiple attention, or commonly dubbed as multi-tasking (as one meaning of the word, of several); but what of multiple cognition which in a way requires an active or leading roll for the mind? They are both, like all the other concurrent thought, internal simulations; and this is not to say that the simulation needs to be rich or complete or resemble real world even though we are said to be adapted to processing input the real world, but this is for lack of advanced models and language, or a normal work in progress.
a reminder that the above should be also viewed as a communication method, and discovery, to connect to not only other persons in your circle of friends in contemporary vernacular, but for thought processes / instances / strings to connect to others alike, across distance and time. incidentally this appears good for bh, and all ideas here are borrowed as they are informed by my environment (and not just manifest from thin air disembodied) as it increases capacity, and cycle times for new technology, methods or otherwise powers to alter the biosphere and transform it into what it tends to resolve itself into, the every something else -- again borrowing from something that i watched recently, people are a unique animals because they want to be something else, in simple terms.
the brain substrate resonates with active memories, remapped as internal simulations, many of them, simultaneously, in multimedia corresponding to sensory input types.these are the precursors to cursory though, which is a precursor to personality and behaviour manifestations. Future tools and methods may aim to analyse these precursors to get an insight into derivative manifestations that result in behaviour. The hope is in finding where the poison is, or other problems that result in a maladjusted person. Also, for bh, to aid instantiation, and increase valuable integration. the problem of probing for this seems intractable. but an inverse lends itself to computer-aided-cognition.
computer-aided-cognition could apply what we know and who we interact with the world around us. on the latter, a relatively simple interface could offer input that is visual, auditory, and yet to happen to an advanced extent extensive tactile input (interfacing via skin should be quite promising). on the former, a media lab could help. internal activity is measured via external behaviour by way of attention. gaze could be probed, internal dialogue -- dialogue and movement are a given. for example. flashing clouds or lists of imagery related to the previous moment's state, and tracking the state, with a predictive algorithm, like a multimedia google in real very time. internal dialogue offers words; a google model of a word query processor can be considered for a predictor, but the output needs to be reconsidered by any such media lab. again, personal behaviour by way of interacting with the machine informs the machine about internal processes, and that could also be used as a diagnostic tool for the above purposes of multiism. this is a vast improvement over the search box. a media lab, not knowing what to give or how to give it, could firstly adapt and apply existing technology and develop a mark-up language for this task, where the individual model and dynamic extensible methods could integrate crowd learning. this would allow for the system to optimise and develop itself dynamically. In a way this is a form of AI, but not was we know it.
Hitchens's relationship with books is an example of instantiation; also education institutions, church, military service, socialization. some have more self selection that others, although that may be an illusion -- the illusion of choice. the less good are oddly enough honest in that they do not pretend the provision of choice. where free thinking applies it is just another kind of guidance, by suggestion rather than coercion. in any case, the resolutions are predictable.

Wednesday, August 11 2010 Moving laterally from point to point appeals to people. It facilitates access to indulgences. A meta indulgence is having the access and the ease and speed of it. Somehow dematerialization has a different feel to it, some get it and use it, while others it passes by. Hence access is and satisfaction are separate things.

Tuesday, August 17 2010 while reading hitch. pluralism via democracy is not just a means to an ed but an end in its own right. for super organism it establishes natural wave dynamics in a localized area of the substrate, that create conditions where trans local waves can resonate for cognition. other systems do not work so well, and can be isolationist and dysfunctional, hence not useful the a substrate.

Wednesday, August 18 2010 instantiate another personality. if faced with a problem that conflicts with your normal personality, where the action is arrested or delayed or is not functioning like it should according to objective self then make another personality with qualities suitable to the problem at hand. having a conveniently conjured multiple personality would allow for a consistent liked self, with another self that is able to discharge a distasteful yet rational obligation. it would be like having an agent, to deal with something you normally do not want to deal with. if the idea is not satisfying is not the point; the objective is to be effective. it should do the trick to overcome an inertia and holding on to what is not useful or outright bad for you. if you cannot discharge a rational duty then invoke a secondary personality that can. the secondary personality does not need depth of character or internal consistency, only to do a task, and then be encapsulated and not bother you there after.

Saturday, August 21 2010

while on plane to melb, reading hitch. for junta disruptor. the junta disrupts civil society. what disrupts a hunta? invasion. what enables an invasion license? partition agreements. what enables partitions? dividing the spoils. what bestly divides spoils? corporations. also an alliance between democratic nations and multinational corporations should do the trick. promote good will to the invaded people by providing a bank account with a nominal redevelopment allowance, like a pension (not quite enough to stop working but enough to sweeten the deal). alternatively offer old fashion bounties. alternatively inject propaganda into the military, does not need to be factual, only effective. Engage the business community and think tanks for solutions to integrate the client nation, for contract solutions, resource integration, budgets, value propositions for units of labor. SO intent is to integrate, effectively augment by annexation. Planned/market economy hybrid (chinese urbanization transformation model).

FPS game engine for UI. evolution and sensorium optimized. to do is to rapidly interface think tanks group communication. also information discovery for processing. also with later tools, rapid modeling.

to solve for optimal personality instantiation payload injection into a besieged processor group to enable integration into the SO resolve assaults against the human condition.

Friday, September 10 2010

after watching independent diplomat on TED, and with yesterday's though: corporations are the drivers for organizing higher than individual complexity. international corporations have some or great protection from highly militarized states, hence are safe and durable. if corporations embrace their customers, and commit to provide value, like google for example, then it becomes a kinda of elected by choice for interaction, an organizing body, not unlike a government. the benefit is that the self organizing structure embraces it's willing participants, and provides for effective protocols. competing organizations provide balance and prevent catastrophic destruction of value, or instability. protocols are quickly diffused and borrowed, including organism like activities. another structure is the city, where people can move from one to another without restriction (withing the same nation or block). also, no need to limit to just those, but to use them and others.

Tuesday, September 21 2010

Natural selection of the protocols: security vs commerce, religions vs entertainment. Maybe not. But protocols spread to govern large scale interaction. Personal and family drivers like strong and weak forces, consumerism like the electro magnetic, and say, the macro economy like gravity.

Wednesday, September 22 2010

Security transcendentalism, where corporations seek security, organisations, and war opportunities. If security is outsourced, and regulated, then the best technologies and protocols could be deployed more responsively as could be mandated by a council of security. Valid applications include deposing despots and warlords (eg. former Iraq situation, or Congo), addressing crime enterprises (eg. human trafficking), and general nation state security.

Monday, November 29 2010

on train. reconnected to the deck (netbook). something feels sad-ish, like any number of things are unresolved. if not in control then use loose timeline touch points. over a span of time things just work out, with mostly reliable commitments, multi-agents, and using time. to use time and faculties as a multidimensional pallet. with the benefit of no immediate emergencies, the rest is just crafting the timeline, or fitting into it.

Saturday, December 11 2010
while walking to s xmas party.

find a url barcode generator (http://qrcode.kaywa.com/); to apply to notice board ads; all documents in public places should have url barcodes (eg. live bus time tables, restaurant menus, classifieds, store fronts).

google fan club, for creating crowd sourced datasets to complete common good projects.

temporal perspective test; measure a person's tendency for seeing a big picture, identify trajectories, as naturally seeing projects assembled from blocks on a timeline; else to deploy the time view abstraction; eg. a 6 month day with sleeps and means, but otherwise project assembly work.

Substrate mind and the super organism

2010-08-15T02:02:00.002+10:00

CSO / BH

Edited 9/11/10 3:39 AM

by bobnewmanemailetgeemaildatcomski -- you're welcome

http://www.google.com/profiles/108473766390167102000

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dr9jwrq_399c939zxct

Table of contents

CSO / BH

Abstract

In a nutshell
Some hopes for this paper

Part 1 -- Observable patterns

Layers, encapsulation, and exchange

Organisms to super organisms
Intelligence spectrum across life
Reach across substrate layers

Civilization complexity

Restating a problem
People as a collective brain
Willful capital
Some hopes for the CSO

Part 2 -- Substrates and modes

Mindful substrates

Substrates resolution
Character instantiation
Modular groups
Human machine duper computer
Internal simulation

Simple underlining components

Stacking simplicity
Tuning
Substrate activity as waves
Multiple personality

Part 3 -- Roadmap

Abstract

In a nutshell

This hypothesis takes the position that there is intelligent life on earth right now that is greater than human in terms of complexity and ability to change its context. It is more intelligent then any single human being, and it is far more complex. Civilization is a super organism. It consists of people, technology, culture, and all the resources that are available to it. It is a living system, but outside of biology studies. It displays patterns of consumption, utilization and excretion, or otherwise repurposing; as well as complex change of its habitat, learning, growth, adaptation, natural selection, fragmentation and integration for self interest.

Further, the civilization super organism (CSO) in this description provides a concept and a structure for related ideas. Also it borrows from complex systems, biology, evolution, sociology, and attempts to integrate any other classical science. It is not the result of reproducible experiments but rather an integration of a part of our observable universe as we understand it.

Some hopes for this paper

To demonstrate the CSO consider human history for a sense of growth and change. Under good growing conditions, it scales like a simple biological colony (fungal, bacterial, plant, or animal population). The suggestion of CSO is that it is no less intelligent and purposeful than its constituents, especially since the constituents are already accepted as intelligent and collectively have a great deal of knowledge and resources. Its relatives might be the large multinational corporations, and cities. There are minds all along the spectrum of complex systems; the human brain does not hold a monopoly on playing host to a mind, as is classically held.

There is currently a problem of defining what is a mind and how it works. We want to build one, have a comparative framework, and be able to read and write to one. The current state of science on mind may suffer from being stuck on semantics and philosophy -- the CSO model, among others (eg. AI, complex systems), may help to dislodge classical anchors. The error may be using conventional analysis to localize mental activity, where activity may very well be cascades across the substrate in waves that interact with themselves, loosely put. This is a vastly disparate position to the progress in other sciences and technological developments, where analysis and engineering work well -- they work well for tightly coupled and relatively very deterministic systems. To study the nature of the mind as a thing to be reverse engineered and scalled may benefit from a step back.

Brain like substrates should not be held as unique to the human mind (a common notion is that the human brain as the peak of complexity, just because it is more evolved than other animals where the proof is in the impact that human activity results in, locally and globally), especially if they are not unique to the human subset (a super computer that is something like a system with internal activity waves where energy is resupplied externally) -- look up and down the scale, not just down with an biased model where complexity simply peaks in the human brain (a human centered view is a historic cliche, especially in time localized popular culture in any era) where a minor genetic tweak over time results in a super predator that also results in emergence (where the system as a whole starts to produce other results that break linear comparative predictions -- look at the effects of today's civilization compared to that of any other, in any other major time frame). To hint that group dynamics has something to do with it would be a laughable understatement. Rather than continuing mind research (and related science) by staying on the human mind, we might get unstuck by looking up and down the scale of structures and build a comparative view -- which incidentally integrates scalability and complexity, and something else that is the product of it. Further, according to some in the singularity camp, this may be an opportune moment in human history to watch a special emergence where there is rapid development in science, technology, and a global culture, when higher structures and comparable phenomena would become especially visible.

We accept that the mind is an emergent property of a somewhat rewritable structured substrate and its cumulative life situation. It is like a general processor. It plays out an incident, by taking sensory input and reacting. It uses a common internal model (calibrated by cumulative experience, the theory of mind, and logic), or a simulation; it interacts with itself and translates that to the external situation. This is all orthodox except for the internal simulation model. Simulation, or even concurrent simulations (actual multitasking, not in the buzz word sense), is somewhat unorthodox but overcomes the mind body problem as well as unifies psychology (the conventional thinking mind) with neurology (the substrate that correlates with experience and psychology) and possibly everything between (by way of structuring information processing -- which is to be looked at later).

With a jump to incidental benefits of rethinking the fractal mind (up and down the scale), a treatment for economic underdevelopment may be something like this: exposing a group to a different cognitive, cultural and individual context, reinforced with supply (assimilation by normalization) -- where other approaches failed to improve a condition, such as a systems approach (logistics), political negotiation (leadership), or emergence (ghost in the machine). Additional abstractions should shed light on why such puzzling conditions are persistent and universal across the world and history (does the SCO have competition, and we can actually watch it play out with the benefit of history) -- this inability to harmoniously integrate valuable human resources (finding suitable, dominant, predatory, or pathogenic protocols). If these models hold up then a world view will also be indicated.

Part 1 -- Observable patterns

Layers, encapsulation, and exchange

Organisms to super organisms

Relatively large organisms are a collective of smaller living units. If a cell is the smallest unit of organism (without splitting hairs about different kids of bacteria, viruses, and DNA) then a macro animal is a super organism. In turn, human collectives resolve to super organisms at the scale of civilizations -- keeping in mind that the civilization includes all the living people plus culture (information residue from former people, their minds, individual activities, and collective behaviours) and technology (accumulated information repositories, engineered methods for working and organizing, and tools that extend natural ability; delineations and semantics beside the point). So there is a lot there to integrate, but it plays itself out regardless. The accelerating prowess of the civilization super organism is indicated by observations of its behavior, including the consumption of surrounding resources and effective changes in the landscape, the projection of its activity to novel reaches like space, and a seemingly accelerating propensity to self reference (eg. discovery and the internet).

The human person became a unit for this super organism substrate at some point. This may not have been initially clear, especially during prehistoric times (because the numbers were so few), but nothing else came forward so humans stepped into that placeholder. Later, culture, civilization and protocols became able to hijack persons (in terms of what they do and think). Protocols need hosts for expression (like DNA needs material for expression).

Culture and the individual resemble the chicken and the egg problem. On a vast scale people are born into culture, and culture directs birth; on an individual scale, the substrate breeding apparatus seems to have much smaller origins that is DNA. Simulation experiments could establishing the sequence substrate resolution, as well as the stack of simple objects that provide the substrate layers.

Intelligence spectrum across life

A substrate of neurons does not not necessarily make a mind hosting brain. Natural brains have neurons deposited in specific patterns, caused more or less by DNA expressed in situ. A soup of neurons do not self organize into anything like a mindful brain. The DNA for developing useful brain features is a product of evolution, and hence very specific. The development is further spurred by the neural network's alignment with sensory input, endocrine dynamics, and other real world developmental factors such as alignment with other environmental and social structures, and ability of supplies. A pattern perpetuating process (from DNA and upwards) is naturally selected for specific systemic resolution (modes of survival within a civilization), including defensive behavior that maintains internal integrity for continuity and generosity that benefits collectives.

Any neural structure coding would have undergone generations of selection for assimilating input streams to withstand contemporary hazards. This would result in a fairly useful structure for input acquisition and processing. Noticeable basic functions include abilities to: assimilate resources, move away from harm, extend useful methods by multiplying the bodies that hold this ability with allowance for variation, or by grafting colonies (eg. integrating mitocondria, hosting good bacteria, relationships, immigration, multinational companies), or by reformatting contiguous substrates (eating food, socialization, education, international treaties, war). These types of patterns repeat in cells, humans and the super organism.

At the gene level the system demonstrates learning by adaptation and passing on what was learned to continuous generations. At a higher level, an animal learns and passes on information to future members by way of culture and institutions. The carrier varies based on scale, but information passes in many parallel parcels, from one to the next, and over time and geographical areas.

Our need to pin point causation leads us to a false range of choice. An organism has different faculties, like for coding and changing as opposed to survival by trying many different environments -- to make many off offsprings (insects) conducive to migration and gaming evolution, or to make resiliant offsprings (trees) with a battery of defensive features. The faculties calibrate for the organism's limitations (eg. tree resilience vs insect resilience). Also the larger the system, the greater its internal redundancies and propensity to reinvent solutions.

Another commonality is specialized structures. Do specialized structures (organs) advance the organism to do as said above? It seems so. The ever more sophisticated brain, training, culture/technology, including institutions and activities that extend reach or consolidate resources, and multiply internally in a useful way.

It would also appear that the communication configurations and protocols are like abstracted organs. They require supply chains, similar to other body processes. Extending body spanning network structures seems to improve the mobility of the whole body, and at a larger scale ability to perform basic functions.

Technologists had hoped that assimilating nodes by getting people online was a driver. A revision would elaborate that getting the right kind of people online to form correctly functioning structures would be more accurate (matching skill and ability features from the pool of nodes to specific tasks). With the benefit of time, it seems that nurturing a generation batch is not a long time frame for the process. Getting ever more people online, getting them to adopt the network and its ways has incidental effects, such as spurring technology advances by way of demand, and augmenting the propagation capacity by sharing knowledge, improving the support network, supply chain reconfigurations and ultimately a kind of ubiquity of whatever it is that is visibly good. Previously interesting parallel processes include globalization of normalized living standards and democratic governance, literacy, survivability, and supply chains.

Reach across substrate layers

People have direct physical access to their cells, with an ability to manipulate them to some extent. Acting in concert, with the aid of protocols (eg. legal contracts, participation in the economy, and following self interest) people collectively can: deposit vast amounts of material to construct large installations (cities), fabricate relatively small objects (microchips) and probe even smaller (LHC), see big (astronomy) or small (biology).

Taking this as a universal, other layers should be able to do this also. DNA has very direct influence on the larger organism that it creates, and how smaller building blocks are consolidated. Civilizations influence policy for channeling money to science, education, health, economy, that how people live and how various smaller objects are treated (eg. eradication of disease causing pathogens, what we eat, what parts of the ecosystem are reformatted and how).

The limits of our understanding are self imposed by our culture, and direction. Nonetheless science and culture continues to cut inroads, expanding understanding or at least driving activity. Patterns for predicting future development emerge and go on to underpinning large scale human and civilization activities that in effect reach into higher and lower scales. DNA influences the kind of though that humans can entertain by determining their ability; in turn, the resulting collective ability determines what DNA is propagated -- although these are two arbitrary points on a localized complexity stack, just to illustrate a cross feedback.

Civilization complexity

Restating a problem

Existing modular systems, like the nation state system, make poor use of their substrates. This general claim is illustrated by dysfunctions like the recent economic free fall, inability to assimilate valuable immigrants, political pressures, and the like. Like a continuation of the feudal system, they are almost certainly guaranteed security from other states; some areas are much more agile than others; borders are mostly permeable to commercial activity and culture (carriers like the media and tourism are also commercial). So why not allow for consolidation of human resources? Inertia and reluctance -- if change is not foisted then it is innately resisted.

China illustrates an relatively exciting exception. It has a drive for urbanization (not unlike the industrialization era of the west); to consolidate adaptable human resources into urban scale structures indicates the presents of something like willfulness to do this (capital was placed on the board as sinkholes for activity); an implied net gain (otherwise why do it); a proof of existence (valid because it is resolved to such a structure in the real world). Under other structures there is no such willfulness (like in the US); compatibility issues (intra EU language barriers and migration limitations); far bodies are not good candidates for consolidation (eg. San Fran or NYC). But China at this point could and subsequently did integrate at such a large scale.

Where large scale human movement is for the time impractical, other overlays address integration; like supply chain networks, media and internet (hardware and telecommunication provisions, both powerful economic drivers, later joined be e-commerce).

Integration seems like an obvious choice when thinking about super groups and the benefits. The growth of magacities is a proof of existence for this choice (integrating otherwise more vulnerable communities piece meal). Urbanization is another such proof, abandoning decaying ghost towns or low yield farms for improving one's life in the big city. The old model still holds. However, the developed world looks to have mostly peaked (the GFC saw a slight shakeup, where potential ghost towns resolved and people abandoned them more quickly than would have otherwise).

The expectation of new technology is to cause change, or to speed up this process, especially when there is so many people available for reallocation toward more massive population bodies. A new economy is based on x. The protocol is what we do to get basic provisions: sustainable food, affordable home, meaningful work. The pace of change and scale of cities make steady improvements, so expect more of it. A radical departure would need totally different conditions, like going into space environments, where advances would feed back to earth cities, and in turn drive further advances. Another radical departure is a kind of gamification of existence, where people apply most of their effort to virtual objects and dataset crafting -- in the traditional sense this is making intellectual property.

With the great variety and volume of advanced activity it would seem that game changing protocols are being constantly tested for successful breakthroughs.

People as a collective brain

People are to a civilization as cells are to a human. People are stocked with cognitive talents and other abilities. Hence groups and civilizations include the product of the sum of available human resources by other available resources (eg. classical capital and classical raw material), with non linear effects.

The brain is said to be the smartest conventional substrate. It tends to present one outward personality. The person's willfulness of mind is projected via the body to do work and change its environment to be more compatible, or more in general to be used as unit of resource toward something bigger.

As there are individuals, there are groups acting collectively, hence produce a much greater change pressure on objects that get worked on. This applies to a body of cells that combine into organs and systems optimized for functions. Again individuals consolidate into communities or organizations. If the average human brain has a nominal cognitive ability, then it follows that a global community of the current population has much more of this ability (by the order of magnitude proportional to the human population, or some non linear approximation). Historically when communities were small there was no visible indication (unlike moving mountains, there may have been some minor landscaping) to demonstrate the effects of a potential super organism. However at 7 billion people, the substrate is comparable to a super brain. This may even be conservative as it denies possible non linear performance scalability. Nonetheless, the super organism must surely be a host substrate for a personality of sorts, if not also other overlays.

Hence the common assumption that the brain is the most complex structure that we know it is inconvenienced by comparative analysis. Nor that it is the most intelligent, as it is only one in a sea of many such like. The brain may be relatively dense compared to similar structures on same scale (not counting computer processors, but these are dissimilar objects), and integrate many cells. But a neuron cell can have only some number of combinatorial states to do with its connected peers (a large number), while a person can have relatively countless combinatorial brain states with even more possibilities to do with interacting with other people. The civilization with all of its constituent brains is clearly more complex, and more full of intelligence and character or potential.

There is a problem interfacing between machines and people, and people and other people. Reframed, there is ample and persistent opportunity to improve interfacing, especially based on the state of the the art in technology and protocols, culture and methods (all essentially the same thing but challenging to model -- as a matter of abstraction and perspective, it could be that the universe is an object to be interacted with by a person's mind, further more to be internally simulated, but that's another restatement of the problem). The driver for change is an improvement in time efficiency, richness of expression, search and relevance, or otherwise gaining omnipotence, omniscience, and such like. The objective is to maximize effective contribution to the collective. Culture extends individual ability. In turn what the collective gains is something else.

Willful capital

Billionaires apply civilization systems to generate usefulness, wealth and value, with efficiencies and externalized costs. Later some of that accumulated wealth is redirected back into the system, tagged with a kind of intelligence from the founder. A trust or a foundation tends to have multiple directing minds and a charter of some kind (the codified subset of willfulness or motivations of the founder). The result is non for profit activity that tends to benefit the community, with prudent cost management, favoring results over bureaucracy, and proper oversight by trusted directing minds with a balance of speculation and prudence.

The current group of people who are created equal (the billionaires) seem to indulge in creative processes, hence the results for their money are not easily comparable, but they do tend to align pooled resources, expressed by the application of money and direction to a task. The willfulness of these persons outlives them, so the idea or concept that passes through incidental participants enjoys longevity, and through underlying pools of capital that translate the idea into activity.

Some hopes for the CSO

This could provide an insight or a direction to addressing annoying observations.
Conflict between super organisms could be explained in terms of competition for resources, predation (when there is a difference), courting (when there is tendency for integration).
Under utilized human resources, or inefficient use of resources in general, could be helped by identifying better activity sink holes -- ultimately raw material to the super organism.
To overcome the problem of unemployment or bad employment, substrate farming could offer a scalable solution.
If cyber assets do away with scarcity, and can be usefully crafted for the usefulness of the super organism, then watch what is being created, or otherwise create it. Only the creative capacity and activity is a scarcity, but that might change over time.
Monitoring edge activity for economic exploits, to find what the super organism seems to want and engage in the activity with hopefully fast growth.

Part 2 -- Substrates and modes

Mindful substrates

Substrates resolution

In a linear and finite view, to resolve from an starting state to an end state (eg. big bang to some theory of everything, high density fuel to uniform entropy). A more detailed example (not so linear and without finite start and stop points) like a regular closed room with some air in it, looking at the air particles, there is movement, swirls, and cycles. Heat energy changes throughout the day. There may or may not be minor drafts. The starting state is practically unknowable, and the end state about equally so. Outside conditions are persistent. There is no need to assume any theoretically perfect conditions. So what does it look like? It looks lively: internal particles have their movement patterns; intra day and intra year activity level patterns; there are reactions to effective external perturbations. The air in this box is the substrate, it's resolution is its perpetual pattern of changing swirls. It is a calculator of fluid dynamics, if nothing else.

So, a resolution can be in terms of a start and an end. For continuity, this could be expressed as snapshots where every moment is a resolution to a previous moment, over arbitrary time intervals, with some modeled activity in between. A substrate will have a resolution pattern regardless of which point in time is to be examined.

Translate the substrate to a brain like lump. It has something of a beginning, a venture where material is integrated in accordance to inherent dynamics (eg. DNA, nutrients, in situ conditions). Then it is altered, only somewhat and only in fine detail, by exposure to the outside world and a learning process, resulting in corresponding neural interaction activity. The activity follows daily patterns, yearly patterns, lifetime patterns. Something that represents a mind emerges as another pattern overlay, with something like thought activities, some of which resolve to external action, with feedback. Scaling up to civilizations, agents pool activity as communities; with greater scale there is greater complexity.

The resolution part can be abstracted to some description of the substrate's internal state, all of its activity, its total state, maybe even spawns if it fragments. Leaping further, spawns via n-dimensions can be seen as alternative universes (hosting internal simulations); spawns re-scaled to mind abstractions then can be seen as persons (or personalities to external parties). The substrate is merely the material that plays host to the activity. It is challenging picking specific points on what seems like a fractal boundary.

Character instantiation

Generally we think of the substrate as having linear causality. Something has a relative start, some period of processing and a relative end. A process can span generations of life times, passing from one generation to the next while continuing to be expressed (eg. family values, family businesses, dynasties). But ideas, or life missions can criss cross generations -- a person learns something agreeable, their behavior gets hijacked by the idea, and later looses interest (eg. a sport). This is a start to end process.

Instantiation is where an idea, or a coded mind or mind segment transfers from one body to another -- like a copy of a file that tells someone how to run their life (eg. becoming politically active as a response to an issue, acting out a job role that requires unnatural performance characteristics, or teamwork where the task required is against individual disposition). This is an idea that infects someone and becomes expressed in behaviour.

If we manages to codify a complex character that later appeals to someone, where the recipient takes it to heart and becomes it (with adaptation artifacts), then in a sense a mind had been transfered (eg. hero worship and emulation, mentoring, big brother figure). This is common in religion, academia, or anywhere an exemplary model is followed. A mind package can be formed at any time, and instantiated in a suitable recipient. When an inventor leaves a notebook and a diary, like a message in a bottle later to be discovered by an interested person, or is published and made available to a wide audience, adoption of ideas and personality characteristics with an aspect of the adaptation happens. The idea source and the recipient could span great gaps in time and distance, eventually playing itself out over a time frame, from a segment of a person's life time to national identity spanning generations (eg. Americanism).

To widen the scope, the movie Contact illustrates instantiation, where the message in a bottle is from a distant civilization to our civilization. In the everyday, people receive information from their early life role models and emulating behavior and re-enforcing agreeable values.

Also in part, this is a search for like minded persons, or self selection, where the hosted idea has to match the next person. If extended, it could be a mind farming instantiation, where the self selected persons align into groups that in turn have other performance characteristics (eg. organizations, organized religion, government departments).

Non instantiation may be caused by a lack of suitable recipients (eg. extremism and extremists), a lack of better interfacing that speeds the process (eg. literacy and book reading), internal defenses (eg. suggestibility and compatibility).

Modular groups

A technology for people groups would look like a McDonalds pack: boxed human and machine set (agents and technology), provisiones for the duration of a project (resources), have a defined goal (input), a ghost in the machine like undefined method (processing), and some kind of a result (output), acting like a processor (mind stack). In real world terms, the project is a job that pays, has a duration, a mandate, a pool of resources. This seems like conventional work. Extending the scope: integrate it into society as a method, and incidentally redefine how we live. The group module can be assembled to solve a problem, process information, brainstorm, etc. The output could be decoupled from real time by expending or compressing the time frame and presenting the input as a simulation. Modules could be configured by feeding output streams into a network of other modules and even feedback.

It could be that this is already happening, and much more organic (auto scaling) and adaptive (responsive to circumstances), but mysteriously suboptimal and clearly disappointing (eg. contemporary natural disaster responses, dealing with climate change). Just because we do not like what we see does not mean that the results are wrong, but our assumptions may be wrong.

Human machine duper computer

Individuals regularly augment their brain capacity with computer devices. Organizations augment their employee abilities with networked computers and phones, getting productivity gains internally and competitively improving their value proposition externally. The internet collective seems like a logical step to integrate all compatible human nodes (so far) into a computation and communication cloud -- the almighty dupper computer made of people and hardware. We have this now, but the implications of the relatively new structure are yet unclear. It should deliver a useful model, or otherwise a mode of operation. The duper computer is continually handing down creative data sets about all manner of things including self referencing.

Internal simulation

The external world is simulated internally. People do it when awake or dreaming. Dogs seem to do it when dreaming -- also indicate prediction when playing ball. Machine vision is poor compared to expectation of what features should be picked up. We filter and calibrate sensory input against our knowledge of the world and internal tracking simulations (expectations). The simulation may even be the main part of human perception, calibrated by sensory input, as well as internally informing further cognition and reaction. Work in machine intelligence needs to solve this in order to be effective -- a way that comes to mind is to provide a substrate that can do this, rather than over engineer with algorithms, rules, and data.

The civilization super organism seems to do a lot of internal simulation, and modeling (science, education, fiction). Hence if this is the litmus test for a mind then it must have one. A mind hosting substrate needs to exhibit internal modeling of its external universe. In other words, an intelligent substrate is constantly simulating the external universe, with tracking, and what-if departures.

Simple underlining components

Stacking simplicity

George Whitesides explains that complex systems are simply stacked simplicity. In traditional biology and other sciences this seems universal and obvious, but in science of the mind stacked simplicity is not like lego yet. Some substrates resolve to hold minds while probably most do not to. This is where relatively simple brain cells, combine into brain structures, with responsive and representative connections, eventuating in a ghost in the machine that is something like a personality with free will. The sequence of development does seem to matter.

Are the not so resolved substrates simply temporary dead ends on the fractal boundary (where resolved complexity encapsulates an internal simulation)? Is it a universal that dead ends branch out and continue to evolve, over longer time frames, and trialling different environments and combinations until internal simulation is achieved? Can novel mindful substrates be manufactured in this way? Is the mindfulness and ghost in the machine simply awaiting a science breakthrough?

Tuning

Can a substrate be tuned for specific performance, or recalibrated locally or across the board to try for effects? This approach could explore the fractal boundary for encapsulation. Alternatively, as a know technique, it could be used to temporarily boost specialized effects, like creativity, or memory resilience, if we only knew how that worked. Again, simulations could find solutions even if you are unsure what you are looking for, you know it when you see it.

Substrate activity as waves

If the substrate is abstracted as flat, or a brain cortex to be laid flat out, adjusted for time, then certain wave resonances and perturbations would play out visually (with the aid of probing instruments). Such a representation could be mapped to a displayable image of what is being simulated. The old approach is to associate localized activity as correlating to an event, rather than taking a spanning cascade approach.

Multiple personality

If a so called personality exists, or a singular simulation exists, then why not multiple. Multiple concurrent simulations could resolve into singular action by fan-in into body behavior. Multiple possibilities are likely when considering risky ventures, even simple ones like crossing the road. Also empathy may involve concurrent internal representations of people (what we understand of them, and what we would like them to be). A fan-out of personalities could be conjured to deal with a problem, where there is a multiple approach to a solution. This is all in the spirit of internal simulation with applied schizophrenic features. Incidentally this could lend insight to disorders and dysfunction.

Part 3 -- Roadmap

How it started, thinking and assumptions

The beast hypothesis

Civilization, as made of people, exhibits animal behavior. It consumes resources, has internal activities the enable it, and it leaves a mark on its environment. It is beast like in that it seems self serving, predatory, competitive, calculating, and such like.

The Beast Hypothesis 2005 (BH) originally tried to apply anthropomorphism to the global civilization, or overlays of it (like nations or cultures). Later the problem was redefined, and the human part of humanity was sidelined -- why limit thinking to human features founded on classical philosophy? Old ideas (like conflict and motivation) have no special merit aside from the status that people assign to it. As models they should be used incidentally to convey concepts during conversation, and not as a main or final feature.

BH 2005, A lack of a useful model

How is it that society does not seem to host a higher wisdom? If complexity increases upward (from atoms to cells to animals) and intelligence occurs upward, then we should see something at the societal level: intelligence or greater complexity. Yet it seems that there is neither. If that is the case, and inconsistent with the general pattern, then we missed it (lacking methodology, tools, a model). Not to be too harsh, the current models of society (economics, sociology, globalization) are ripe for revision and augmentation, like the jump from Newtonian to quantum mechanics to the standard model (in physics).

After a century of work economics it is still not quite a ripe science; failing to deal with significant economic events certainly undresses the body of assumptions. Not far ahead are the likes of psychology and sociology, where if useful models were established then we would be surrounded by real AI in a land of utopia or something much unlike to where we are today. Issues like resource allocation seem solvable on paper, and everyday people hardly seem like unfathomable entities. Something in our approach must be constraining progress in these areas, unlike the breathtaking successes in more tightly coupled deterministic sciences. The so called soft sciences are proving disproportionately hard in producing clear data and deterministic models and be readily transferable to engineering solutions. On reflection if an analytical approach is failing to deliver then we should try something else to produce the missing breakthroughs. Highly parallelized trial and error seems to work well in nature, so with the aid of every increasing computer power, brute force simulations in an understood framework may be the key. It would be nice to have a unified framework for what we refer to as the mind, be it on any scale, and it seems also reasonable to expect an effective description of this subset of the physical world like the rest. This is a call to fringe and bleeding edge science and an accusation of orthodoxy.

The original BH was a story of people that influenced the course of human history, such as the super rich of today or otherwise the classical ruling class. In point-form a narrative was implied, integrating and acknowledging elements like: pools of money, war, directing minds directing pooled resources, value propositions, observable patterns that can be a guide to profitable ventures, successes for scalability, a classification with classical references, exercise by war relative to scale, collective departure from earth by way of information and dematerialization -- change drivers lead to overall progress, evolution applies to all scales of activity even the very large, peace and war optimize for different change, redundancy for robustness, happiness and mass behavior, pathogen overlays (indulgence, self destructive irrational behavior, sociopaths), shifting the perspective. Where to draw the line between one super organism and another; as overlays, with say, religions, cultures, nations, corporations, institutions? Competition and Darwinian selection should work everywhere. Currently there appears to be a trend for getting people online and connected to the net (hence the rapid spread of internet ubiquity) -- node count seems important (for diffusion and accelerating change).

Then there was an obsession with complex systems and emergence, much later to be resolved as stacking of simple reliable components with behavior protocols. The latter resolves to a deterministic sate, whereas the former resolves to a hit or miss aggregate state.

A obvious pitfall in the hypothesis is that it is based on an arms race philosophy, which is not what science is about -- especially by someone so unqualified for this task as this author. Where philosophy took millennia, science and industry replaced with real value and real knowledge in a relatively short amount of time. Reason alone only presents a proposition; real investigation sorts out junk.

BH Revised

From an intermediate time:

composite mind from human agents arising with complexity, aiming to model edge activity to identify economic exploits
identify what does the collective creature seem to want based on its trail of historical behavior
apply fractal scalability
identify mind bearing substrates
the hypothesis upgrade path should include long time scales and wide distances, with civilization and world nodes forming a larger network
mind by internal simulation, substrate resolution by high rate input over long time
static substrate, non motion, non time, primitive dimensional self folding plane, creating an effective universe representation
universe, complexity, substrate as an information space, with geometry as the principal expression
applying the new activity model replacing failing global economics, where individuals are integrated efficiently, massive parallelized minds with culture/technology protocols and physical connections, and hopefully tipping for the transformation of the collective super organism, like a violent fusion reaction creating a novel material, a kind of processor, and a Kurzweilian singularity of sorts
view the collective as inclusive of: all persons, all time, all cultural product(including technology and methods -- if especially brave then include all other dynamics and derivatives, all information passing through our point in space time and possibly all information by some derivative and inference, and then add the other possible entities and them informing the substrate, as we inform it also. we are flatlanders of sorts. -- the last parts are not really important
how far can geometric weirdness and fractal complexity go?
Vehicles for information diffusion and information work and potential vectors: experts; the work of peak research facilities; science fiction and all cyber punk (online); offline agents, leaving messages in bottles; magacities and general culture

BH started as a frustrated brainstorm. It ended as a scoping problem, or at best a bag of fiction concepts awaiting a sci-fi story.

Points of departure

Geometry

Consider a substrate as a plane, in the shape of a nice flat napkin, but very wide and rubbery. It represents the potential for a field of force. Now distort it, so that at points it touches other points, like folds. Now, assume that the fabric is more like sand, where the particles can pass one another so that the plane can cross over itself. The interaction at the point of cross over creates a dynamic, there may be collisions or other interactions where energy is exchanged. If the crossover motion continues then we can see something like a cross section or wave progressing, a moving line resulting from the plane's crossover. Now distort the field in many places to various extents; you will find something of a mess of waves, the plane interferes with itself in a multitude of points into lines, the cross over wave propagation seems deterministic with the plane movement. The whole time that this is happening, we are dealing with a geometric shape, with some complex distortion. We can presume that the plane is not necessarily in the shape of a napkin at all, but maybe, say bubble gum or foam or a cloud; by any means a relatively very large and complex plane, in a way larger than the cosmos that it expresses -- the cosmos would just be the cross over points. To guess further, why not the electric field and the magnetic field being just such a plane coming in on itself resulting in quanta of energy and then the larger particles. The dynamic of this system is also following a substrate resolution, where external complexity is modeled internally, along a fractal boundary.

An alternative to vast distortions is that the plane density is not uniform. Worse still is the prospect where the geometry is hopelessly complex; however at localized scales, predictability is relatively manageable. This is yet to integrate time and movement. This does not help to advance provable or predictable phenomena. There are some things that the geometry holds as true, while the rest are imaginary and not realizable. Again, simulation is a key tool.

Timeless like geometry

To explain a phenomenon we tend to employ philosophy, rather than what is observable in nature which is geometry. Geometry seems to be the stuff of reality -- everything has a position relative to everything else. But brains are optimized for a cognitive approach, conducive to employing philosophy for shortcuts. It transforms it into language and ideas to deal with it further and to communicate it, because of efficiency in processing in the derivative form. Consequently the brain's approach is responsible for inertia and error resulting from the process. Is creative progress fast enough? At this point the super organism model is invoked because it spans time more comfortably then a single life time or even a series of generations. A geometry approach to resolution could be faster, or even instant. Our creative limit is the product of our indoctrinated brain, set up for philosophy, which peaked already. Hence useful novelty will come from a different process.

We want fractal consistency. We want the atomic unit of the brain substrate that can host a mind. If we have that then we can build a brain -- a structure driver would also need to be built in, as well as connectivity to a real world sensorium. We can study it and interface with our own minds. We can tinker with our own brain as we learn. We can study and tinker with other brains, which sounds ethically murky, even if the substrates are engineered and disembodied; we can identify the super organism's components at any level; we achieve fractal consistency for all levels.

Fruit flies are almost identical to humans in DNA terms, relative to the large volume of coded data. DNA evolution along normal progression, at some point shoots off to become the blueprint for large life forms, although the size of the animal is not the issue. Life forms that correspond to our size appear abundant, while others not so much (with the naked eye, or by people in their traditional state) -- like bacteria, regardless of being inconceivably abundant (microbes are practically everywhere). We disregard all other life forms because we need tools and technology to notice them, the very small; also like the very large, the very fast, the very slow that do not interact in our activity space. The Cambrian explosion and evolution are also life behaviors that benefit from indirect observation that requires labor, methods, and a certain state of civilization. We look for mindful behavior patterns along space time traces, that way the observer will not be confused by scale (too large or too small), shape (not fitting our expectation), or time (where no activity is visible in real time).

The challenge is to find a starting point for the underlining geometry and to follow it.

Information

Everything in the world can be put in terms of information. So much that when science explores physics and arrives at ever smaller particles, that the larger particles are just information about the placement of smaller particles and their dynamics. If to do away with the levitating turtle problem, then it is information all the way down the a fractal boundary (where complexity does not have bottom or top limits). An incidental byproduct is information reacting to information creating new information. The geometry and substrate then becomes information. Regardless if that is a fact, as an abstraction with it's own tools, like others it may be useful for specific types of problems.

On revision the what underpins what problem unexpected geometries rather than every smaller particles. As with perhaps branes theory, our particles may be an information manifestation of some other phenomenon. It is easy to increase the information of a system by just adding more twists, or worse by giving it a fractal geometry.

Group containerization experiment

To enlist some number of persons, under the auspice of a military unit (a preexisting siphon for funding, activity, and misc experiments), assure meaningful work, personal security and food. Start by installing a cluster of 1000 groups, a task and protocol, networking, feedback for altering internal protocols and methods. That is in a way, a flexible bureaucracy with nothing to do but some nominal systematic activity. Leave them for a period of 1 year, and see what happens. Adjust it to low costs by way of paying very little or nothing, but assuring future options like education or future paid work; just some initial ideas. Manage outside interference that would spoil or hijack the batch. Treat it like a biosphere experiment. Manage internal misdirection by initial group selection. Try different things multiple times. At signs of success replicate and continue to scale up.

This is similar to a state sponsored academic industrial complex, where the student body is the substrate to watch. Clearly some substrates gravitate to more interesting results than others. There seems to be opportunities for spurring various substrates to self organize, and watch for results. Ideally the results would spill into society.

Why have it? To solve hard problems, to increase problem solving capacity. Incidentally it would absorb all the excess humanity, steal from conventional economic activity where there is low value, polarize and maximize deployment of certain type of human resources (personality types). It could reformat civilization for high performance, departing rapidly from the wait and see approach of current methods; like technology and other advances in modern history.

These could be cooperatives, winning resources for themselves, and spreading.

Simulation and held beliefs

Show that 3d space, our physical world, is a construct and there is no such place at all. Find that other abstractions also hold, and contradict our 3d abstraction, therefore casting doubt on everything that we hold as true -- although multiple abstractions can be valid. If our brains process our inputs as if by adaptation to our world, merely as a matter of efficiency then our perception is what we get. Since we evolved, many cultural abstracts were added, to which we learned to adapt and continue to add -- such as mathematical and geometric constructs, world view models, and rich expressive language set.

Trans time communication

Something like time travel is simply waiting and arriving at a future point via real time. To jump to a future point requires that a subsystem stops processing information internally and disallows external influence on internal processes, in something like a bubble of safety. To slow time requires a speed up of internal processing. To jump back is a matter for speculation.

There is no going back in time exactly, but rather selecting an alternate past by selecting a specific present or future that would have been the product of the desired past, or to toy with the 5th d. More realistically to rewrite history in a conventional sense, selecting winners and writing them up as such (revisionism). To have enough options for history revision, it is required that a large pool of options pre-exist at least from the point of departure and up to the point of selection.

Drive to pursue an interest

What causes a substrate to have an effective drive unrelated to basic functions? If people are pattern seeking creatures, and entertain internal simulations of the external, then the drive to perform non essential functions is to augment the internal simulation with more information, as feedback from the external. Or, no drive is required because the system is deterministic. For example: a child of a gender stamped brain (genetics and corresponding childhood treatment), infused with an structured education (via an education system), a formative lifetime of semi structured experiences (in a localized culture), a sequence of also structured inspirational occurrences (being shown important things at the right time), will inevitably lead to an adult with a correspondingly predetermined world view (also accounting for world view bias), and hence resulting motivations and interests and behavior appear to be bound and predictable.

As we are confined to wrapping our heads around 3d (with stopped time, allowing for inspection) and motion (watching for change features), it would be interesting to model this in 3d -- a multidimensional splat represented as a 2d star spanning across time. One could expect something like a key signature of related blobs. Other signature generating models may also be interesting -- applied to any personality.

Models

It would be good to have better modeling tools, with intuitive user interfaces, pallets, transforms, filters, view ports, etc. If chaos is deterministic then predicting resolutions or relative linearity is a tool job. It is all meta data, or otherwise data, hence data tools are the right tools.

Stuff on earth is visible, measurable, and most immediately usable. The brain, as understanding the substrate to the point where it can be replicated seems like a common goal. There are a lot of brains in operation in nature that we can see and have some access to them, yet we cannot willfully replicate anything like the result. Probably doing it wrong.

Interworld

Our civilization seems to be ever more adapt to do interworld communication. A civilization as a thinking organism has the drive to learn and interact with others alike. Without technology we could process a direct artifact, within our primitive limitations. With technology we could model the information and decipher it. The other civilization could simply dump the lot in a signal, like in scifi stories. Of course signal exchange overcomes issues of exchange of material. Also, staying open about the nature of the external source, taking an extra step into the what-if, the information could have already been deposited near us, we just have not found it yet. As for the night sky, a catchall observation should pay close attention to time windows when the sender is ready to send and the receiver is ready to receive. This in a larger universal topography like somewhat deterministic dendrite shoots in their context. Why would there not be a galactic organism.

On inter world communication, time frames, and recipients, there could be countless recipients, some sooner than others. Messages can be received long after a the source expired (because of interstellar distances).

Neo forces

The cosmos is an information plane (or some construct) to which all things are tied. Things express their position on the plane, including the state of a cursor's force combinations, and some kind of change or movement that can be compared over something like time. All levels of complexity unfold onto the plane. For the system to work in a way consistent with our understanding we need to invoke some neo forces: time, matter, activity.

What happens when we remove one force? Without time: future, past and present are concurrent, and there is no change, resulting just the original singularity (with whatever geometry). Without matter: activity and time are not mitigated resulting in non expression. Without activity: matter stays within the original singularity.

Are the forces concurrent at each point on the information plane, only differing in value? If I have a particle of mater and a particle of activity (a consequence of another particle of matter on the information plane in a different position), nothing happens until I get a particle of time. Hence the 3 forces are required for an expression on the information plane.

All cursors (points on the plane) sustain their information. An increase or decrease in information would cause and inflation or deflation of the infoplane. When the plane is of constant size then information is conserved, neither added nor removed, but only moved to other cursor points. This results in movement, and consequently time for mitigation. Something like activity would be like a geometry that compels the change. This is disturbing if the geometry is fractal because it would require instant infinite expansion to contain a limitless fractal boundary, but regardless.

Replace the term plane with substrate, activity with geometry, and get rid of time and movement as they are deterministic with respect to the substrate and its geometry. Now we can restate the problem of modeling the universe in terms of geometry. This could be a good step because now we can apply our geometry tools (mathematics) to it, and develop newer tools to study the problem.

Maybe time is not a force rather matter has a constant speed that activity can be expressed on. If a particle travels in a straight line then it is at the speed of light. If it changes direction as rapidly then it is effectively still, but still traveling, only in small circles. If photons are electrons (pardon) and photos travel straight and cross vast distances quickly then electrons orbit a nucleus and on our scale remain in place.

Fractal singularity

Matter is constant but distributed unevenly within a singularity. At least something like matter or energy whatever is applicable to a singularity state. Hence a singularity holds information by way of a fractal cursor, and incidentally can expand or contract its information capacity by way of changing it's complexity. If it was to hold an evolving universe then the complexity would increase, and information indicating movement would be incidental. The fractal nature also indicates a lack of floor, and ceiling by inference because a relative point on the fractal is arbitrary. Let the singularity be a substrate with geometry.

A comment on time and rate

In matter space, all particles change state deterministically with propagation waves. The information or complexity of the wave varies deterministically based on prior state and what directly impacts it. Like the ocean, waves tend to travel at constant speed (with respect to the medium and its dimensions), passing a kind of energy. The time abstraction comes in when the observer is in a different relative system and the observation can see intersections between the wave and some fixed object and can measure it according to the observer's clock or sense of time. If a surfer was on a big wave (where not much else is seen) and traveled it across an ocean then there would be no sense of change while having an internal impression of timelessness. Time would seem to slow down and drag on (discounting any rush from the surfing activity, which can be factored out with a different thought experiment where the observer is in a white room with no references other than an internal sense, no sense of tiredness, and no day light).

Where two wave systems intersect they create a point of reference. Two points of reference create movement -- where one point serves as a reference, while the other moves relative to the first. This gives us a motion system -- it has movement, but not yet a sense of time. To get a sense of time, take one motion system that will be the observer, and bring to it information from another motion system.

A person's internal sense of time comes from thought, based on internal simulation, evolved to correspond to real time (external). Internal neural waves resonating in the cortex giving us our sense of cognition and time. It is hard to imagine that you could have something like internal dialog (without internal vocalization, which would slow the process down to a normal speech rate) that is orders of magnitude faster than what it is normally -- but this might be worth exploring for faster than real time internal simulations that could manifest in when you just know something is tricky. In any case, our sense of time is difficult to trick because of our many and habitual ways to calibrate for real time.

These underlining waves move at light speed and with the galaxy spinning though space relative to a fixed object. Sub atomic reactions are quite instant, and chemical reactions are also incredibly fast, so how is it that human cognition seems so slow? Maybe because of the scale to which we are adapted -- tiny creatures like ants have relatively incredibly reaction times, as was their adaptation requirement. A super organism's adaptation requirement for reaction time is relatively cosmic, hence it is likely to think and act slowly -- this is to be remembered when searching for it.

Critical mass

The reason why we are not detecting other worlds and advanced signals is because: successful societies that reach a certain stage of development tend to self destruct or break apart; they become internally focused; they interact with the rest of the universe by observation and probing alone, have no intention to boldly go. That we can observe a lot of the universe from our modest point indicates that the nature of the cosmic fabric is that all information passes via our point (or any point). Information passes directly though line of sight, or indirectly by interacting with object that we can observe. We can see everything from here so there is no point to boldly go, especially since it is so difficult and slow compared to the speed of light for observations.

Pre Prototype 1

While on the train returning from town, thinking that I have not produced any badidea material this year so far (Feb 2011), fearing that a creative ability had deactivated, started coming up with this for BH/CSO (refer to other document): two driver hunch: 1) to seek enlightenment: for the system to internally simulate external phenomenon with predictive accuracy; this is like philosophy, learning, cultural advancements; 2) to provide security: the arrangement of immediate systems to produce surpluses; this is the pursuit of conventional wealth.

These are easily already observable at the human behavior level, hence testable-like. To test CSO at other levels, these 2 drivers would have to be satisfied. Fortunately companies, organizations and nations already exhibit these qualities. Short term test challenges include machine substrate minds, and something crossing civilizations; though for the former a working prototype is required, while for the latter, a model is first required. If it fits this mold then it passes as intelligent.

A challenge is producing a model of intelligent substrates and prototype for future applications. What are the qualities of individual members? It would have to be something to do with information processing and external communication, not unlike simple neurons, people, groups, organizations.

The prototype for intelligent substrates would include the following. Self replicating nodes capable of information processing and connectedness. An environment resembling real world, where there are driver pressures, opportunities to quash, survive, thrive.

When asked if that is all there is to life and existence as we know it, then yes, that is all. The dramatization of life experience by way of time localized perception, cursor/information models, or individual actors experiencing life and free will ideas, then it is a seemingly blissful, tormenting, or neutral series of time localized reactions. Refer to other points of departure.

Localized entities (like people), firstly have limited cognition to operate at higher levels easily, that is to integrate prediction models and information. Second, apparently natural selection pressures optimize for processing at the conventional level, at least pre Kurzlelian singularity (K-s). K-s, regardless of K's rendition or Moore's Law, is a drive to produce higher information densities and corresponding processor power, with incidental surplus-like producers (as above). On the K-s metaphor (just for fun), the prediction of the content of the singularity is limited from an external perspective, as no conventional signal is emitted. Past the event horizon, after an information transformation, having a suddenly far higher information density, where perhaps a new universe is qualified, with it's own simulations.

Co-opting

As individuals co-opt slaves, so too governments co-opt populations; midrange, companies co-opt workers. Perhaps democratic-like states level out power distributions by way of good governance. The only even ground is between level peers; all other dealings are power relationships. What undermines power relationships include: environmental chaos, revolts and power struggles, culture and technology, and commerce.

Does a willful CSO have a preference for a mode of change or otherwise? The existence of a range of concurrent scenarios implies that no. The novelty is still technology and a technology culture. Hence change is persistent, but unevenly distributed. It affects culture and behavior of the underlying substrate (people and everything to do with people).

Example: if a traffic active GPS handset (like android) can facilitates traffic routing decisions and collective metropolitan traffic behavior, then the behavior is effectively taken over by a cloud based entity (in any sense). Other technology, like "social media", can similarly take over the behavior of the classically co-opted individuals, groups, classes, or substrates.

The relative indicators include for co-opting include: individual usefulness driver (the the result yields a more useful result then it is likely to be co-opted), value/wealth/market/economic driver (economically developed populations yield more to the co-opters than underdeveloped; conflict occurs when there is a power struggle that changes relative peer levels), increase in processing capacity driver (improving the rate of throughput).

There seems to be a driver for increasing capacity of human machine clusters in the form of: industry call centers, governmental intelligence processing centers, military/paramilitary processing centers, and a console interfaced culture (gaming and internet media consumers). This facilitates, hence indicates, a drive towards high socio/techno/cultural integration, and high efficiency human clusters (urbanized or urban-like) or increasing density for processing; also increasing information/technological skillfulness of members, low maintenance expense (high density housing, better service delivery; also shift to green technologies and behaviors that require far less inputs hence expenses).

The combined results incidentally resolve the unemployment problem of the industrial era (because of scalability of labor integration and creative outputs). There may be a clear shift away from an appetite for consumer goods, to be replaced by an appetite for information and virtual experience, which scale easily. A culture war (where the theater is the hearts and minds of members, whose behavior is co-opted) may be the melting pot of an information based society and economy or aggregate activity -- subject to Moore's law.

Random ideas

Test models against a comparative matrix.
Apply a behavior overlay, like languages and expression models, and see how it alters internal models (eg. humor, abstraction, how can meta cognition be facilitated, and where does it happen).
People as databases, walking queries able to interrogate their knowledge bases.
Bio mimic brain technology.

WATCH: Overturning Prop 8: David Boies

2010-08-09T20:48:00.002+10:00

http://fora.tv/2010/08/05/Overturning_Prop_8_David_Boies#chapter_11
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_v._Schwarzenegger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_8_(2008)

Augen netbooks

2010-07-31T05:55:00.004+10:00

Netbooks have become stale, with little change from year after year -- same price, still no all day battery, still no touch screens or convertibility. These Augen, via China and Kmart selling for $100 to $200, at least offer a long awaited price breakthrough, also Android (v2). I also like the implied simple design, doing away with a need for drives (HD or SSD). If this 10in does Skype video (as the webcam implies) and youtube then I look forward to it, as my next downgrade towards the cyber gutter.

via netbooknews.com

The Picture of Dorian Gray

2010-07-29T13:08:00.002+10:00

Finished reading The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde. Enjoyed it. It was an opportunistic bargain from Basement Books (Central Station tunnel; $3). This was also a chance to catch up on a classic for me.

[ wiki | gutenberg free ebook ]

Immediately went to Borders (I was passing by) and got Hitch 22.

WATCH: Van Jones: Inforum's 21st Century Visionary Award

2010-07-14T15:45:00.002+10:00

http://fora.tv/2010/06/29/Van_Jones_Inforums_21st_Century_Visionary_Award

Acer aao cashback letter

2010-06-17T12:44:00.004+10:00

Hello

It has been over 2 months since I purchased my netbook and promptly sent in my rebate claim.

I suspect that there was a problem with what I had cut out and sent to you -- the barcode. It did not have a SNID, but instead some other numbers and barcodes that looked important. The only place where I could find the SNID is on a sticker under the netbook itself (SNID 00623062416). I no longer have the original box, hence cannot examine it further, but I'm pretty sure that what I sent it was the only barcode panel that was there.

I believe that I had done everything to the best of available information at the time and what a sane man would do. It would seem humorous and unreasonable to have to send to you the whole box and it's contents and have your office sort it out, perhaps still short of complying with your requirements as I see it.

I based my purchasing decision on the net cost of the netbook with the cashback offer. Had I know that the representation will not be honored then I would have considered an new eeepc as a replacement to my previous eeepc.

I attach a photo of the original box post cutting out the barcode allong side the underside of the netbook with the SNID, and a photo of my claim form with the cut out. I apologize for the poor quality of some of the content as they were originally intended to only serve as my personal record, and not intended for other users.

Any feedback or a resolution would be appreciated.

Best regards
Bob

response:

Thank you for your enquiry, unfortunately your claim has been declined as we received the incorrect barcode. For a Cashback claim to be approved we require the original SNID barcode cut from the box and sent along with your photocopy of receipt and Cashback claim form.

Can you please provide me with the correct barcode showing the SNID number, this number will match what is provided on your claim form.

Cashback schemes are good for manufacturers because there is a good chance that they will not have to pay out -- stuff gets lost in the mail, people don't act, people cannot complete a claim, it's hit or miss. As compared to real discounts with immediate effect at the checkout and you know where you stand.

WATCH: Nils Gilman: Deviant Globalization

2010-05-19T01:34:00.001+10:00

WATCH: Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action

2010-05-08T02:09:00.000+10:00

WATCH: David Eagleman - Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization

2010-04-28T16:28:00.000+10:00

Neuromancer

2010-04-17T22:52:00.001+10:00

Finished reading Neuromancer. Clued in on common references; wanted to catchup on this for some time but only just got around to it. Most of the interesting stuff was in the last quarter: the multi human multi AI conglomerate hive minds. Nothing new was discovered, but then again the book was published in 1984, hence its content had lots of time to diffuse into current pop culture by now.

Acer aao xp unbundle request

2010-04-13T12:55:00.002+10:00

13 Apr 2010 to Acer:

Hi

I recently purchased a netbook. Naturally it came bundled with an OS, XP specifically. I do not require the bundled OS as I use Ubuntu linux. I did not activate XP or agree to the EULA via the installation wizard. I wish to unbundle XP from my purchased package, with an effective refund. There are suggestions on the web that this is possible.

I already called sales support to request advice about this, but was told that it is not. This is not satisfactory. Please consider my written request.

If I do not get a satisfactory result, I intend to continue this matter via Fair Trading.

15 Apr 2010 from Acer:

We regret to inform you that your request for a partial refund of your purchase, pertaining to the operating system, is declined. As a gesture of good will, we are happy to allow the your store to return the product which should encourage them to provide a full refund of the product when returned with its full packaging within 14 days of purchase.

[Oh no no no my friend, I want the keep the good value hardware even with the config such as it is, but this microsoft regime will not be withstood gladly.]

Letter to Minister Helper about Saigon

2010-03-16T20:25:00.003+11:00

The Hon. Joe Helper MP
Minister for Agriculture
Level 22, 1 Spring Street
Melbourne 3000

16 March 2010

Dear Minister Helper

I am sure that by now you are aware of the elephant issue. If not then I am writing on behalf of Saigon — a 55 year old elephant currently in the custody of Perry Bros Circus. I'm sure that Perry Brothers is a fine establishment and provides good entertainment value for the average family, without inferring any further judgments. But this is not about the circus, petty bickering about world views, culture wars, etc. This is about Saigon, age 55.

Generally I frown on all the intra species atrocities that people are well know to commit against each other, never mind all the other atrocities and complex issues on this occasion. But this issue of Saigon is very simple.

Saigon to me has a sense of personhood, and quite simply deserves justice.

I would seek such a resolution for anyone regardless of how naive that may sound to the opposite end of the social spectrum but that is not a reason to withstand silently. It sickens and saddens me know of the state of this situation and to have to put this to you, but I am compelled to voice my ethical position here and this is a just cause.

Surely by now the good Perry Brothers would have pocketed ample profits from their exploits of Saigon, but apparently not. The directing mind appears to be grabbing all exploits to the maximum extent allowed under the law, only until somebody calls them out on it -- typical. But society has a higher standard and looks rather kindly at social justice. This is where we, I and everybody else considering a similar position, are asking for specifically your help.

I implore you also to act on Saigon's behalf.

After over 50 years performing in a circus for Australians we now owe Saigon peace and security in her remaining years.

Sincerely,

BN

[open letter http://robotsaregodless.blogspot.com/2010/03/letter-to-minister-helper-about-saigon.html]

[ref http://www.animalsaustralia.org/features/circus-elephant-campaign-continues.php]

Authors@Google: Michael Hanlon

2010-03-13T09:10:00.000+11:00

on social contagions other than internet memes

2010-02-13T15:59:00.005+11:00

Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food

Is Mental Illness Contagious? - Ethan Watters

'Libertarian Paternalism': Guiding Without Coercion - Philip Collins

revision: few hours later: i like it. i like the above. but not in the full context that they are given, or their fuller representation. splitting hairs, this is not what i subscribe to of the complete sense, even though i like these clipped expressions in a temporal succession.

Beat The Reaper

2010-01-23T13:11:00.004+11:00

I bookmarked the idea for getting Beat The Reaper after having had watched Josh Bazell talk at Authors@Google. Needless to say that the personal presentation left an impression enough to complete the cycle -- watch the video then read the book. Yes, the book was entertaining and lived up to expectation, but the story is ultimately forgettable as any novel -- I guess I'm just not a novel junkie.

It looks like it's getting made into a movie.

The Management Myth

2009-12-15T22:17:00.004+11:00

I picked up The Management Myth because it poked at my appreciation of management theory insights and was likely to entertain me while killing time on a plane between LA and Sydney.

Finished reading it about a week ago. I feel more smug.

[btw, i got 2 books at that particular moment, this one and also The Prince, and I finally did away with it only just now, while basking in the sun during my summer break. both good reads.]

WATCH: Born to be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life

2009-12-15T00:23:00.003+11:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRRXRlddibg

Dacher Keltner

Glebe Street Fair 2008

2009-11-18T00:16:00.007+11:00

sorry, this is out of sequence and a year late, but i want the whole 3 years in a row set (2007 2008 2009) blogged just to be consistent -- show all

http://picasaweb.google.com/robotsaregodless/2008GlebeStreetFair?feat=directlink

Glebe Street Fair 2009

2009-11-16T18:48:00.004+11:00

A column of people all the way up the street

Free Water, Free Random Stuff, Free Advice

Free Computer, Free Uno Game

catwalk

oh the catwalk

on the catwalk

stuff to buy

ends in The Lansdowne Hotel and beer

Eating seaweed

2009-11-15T01:01:00.003+11:00

Since about September, been big on seaweed; Nori, Wakame, Kombu, also tried others, and good soy sauce. Now giving it a break somewhat.

My favorite is seaweed salad (soaked wakame, chopped red onion, soy sauce, olive oil) wrapped in nori. It is not too filling and very wet. Messy to cut.

Tofu and rice wrapped in nori.

Nori with curry rice.

I don't quite remember, but it looks like soaking kombu. also cooked kombu with rice.

Seaweed salad: seaweed (soaked and rinsed), onion, tomato, lemon grass, chili, curry powder, secret ingredient (leftover samosa dipping sauce), cooked for 20 minutes -- separate broth -- rice cooked separately -- served : broth soup in a cup; rice topped with seaweed, garnished with olive oil (cold pressed) and soy sauce -- opinion: OK -- notable: seaweed texture is slimy and pasta like; distinct medium mild smell and aftertaste (especially if having had drank the cup of broth first); good cooking adventure meal. Photos show the start of the preparation.

Seaweed shoots: eat uncooked (soak, then rinse otherwise may be too salty, especially if had with soy sauce), with cooked rice and garnish (olive oil, soy sauce, sesame seeds if you got them), 4 big servings -- stringy and chewy -- advice: chop it up first else long strings are awkward to eat gracefully. If you are lucky then you might be able to get the thin type, which is better.

Salad: tofu, seaweed, tomato, etc

Revision 2010 02 28 :

SEAWEED ROLL

ingredients

wakame seaweed
red onion
chili
soy sauce, sesame oil, olive oil

step 1: soak the wakame for 10 minutes, then add the rest of the ingredients

step 2: blend

step 3: apply blended mass to nori sheet and roll it up

step 4: chill the SEAWEED ROLL in a freezer for 10 minutes or else set it aside for 20 minutes in a cool place. Serve whole, avoid cutting as it could get messy.

Some of my recent stuff

2009-11-14T23:41:00.004+11:00

An arbitrary cross section of recent stuff that I got.

LED 1xAA flashlight

Korean shop for kimchi

World Square

pink ribbon day

received bathrobe gift

another Lush solid perfume, this time The Comforter

soy miso paste for miso soup and miso anything

The Prince

2009-11-14T23:31:00.006+11:00

I picked up The Prince because it was thin, cheap, and likely to entertain me while killing time on a plane between LA and Sydney.

This is the one to do with Machiavelli -- it is better to be feared than loved.

Finished reading it about a week ago. I feel more smug.

There is an ebook.

watch :: The Electric Horizon: Shai Agassi

2009-08-30T00:59:00.001+10:00

http://fora.tv/2009/07/22/The_Electric_Horizon_Shai_Agassi

watch :: Authors@Google: Amy Stewart

2009-07-02T18:41:00.002+10:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCpqXlGzY9I

http://www.amystewart.com

watch :: Liz Coleman's call to reinvent liberal arts education, via TED

2009-06-02T18:52:00.000+10:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syqScVtnKuU

watch :: Scaling Up: From Buildings to Communities

2009-05-27T23:58:00.001+10:00

http://fora.tv/2009/05/01/Scaling_Up_From_Buildings_to_Communities

watch :: Michael Pollan: Deep Agriculture

2009-05-17T20:38:00.001+10:00

http://fora.tv/2009/05/05/Michael_Pollan_Deep_Agriculture

TDK Xa40 speaker cube

2009-05-03T13:34:00.010+10:00

Yesterday I picked up this ewaste from JBHiFi, for $25, second last one from display. This item has a long and stupid story in my mind, but now I have it.

2009 tdk xa40 speaker

Also, it uses 12V power hence works with my solar solution.

Sure, this is in the category of crap-i-dont-need but the consequences of getting it were minimal, and so maybe allowable.

watch :: Parasites Among Us: Jim McKerrow

2009-04-15T00:12:00.002+10:00

http://fora.tv/2009/04/07/Parasites_Among_Us_Jim_McKerrow

1h40m

On parasites.

watch :: Jared Diamond, The Evolution of Religions

2009-04-09T11:57:00.002+10:00

Personally, I don't currently seek out discussions on religion, but this talk dropped into my inbox and I found it is somewhat good - on functions of religion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th7CFye03gQ

Mukarp, Ikealand, and Ikeafever

2009-03-29T15:33:00.013+11:00

Went to Ikealand.

Got a Mukarp mattress for my futon that's been on and off the wishlist for a long time with conflicting lifestyle ideology undoing object acquisition - resolved. The pack is 80% deflated and rolled up into a tight almost solid mass of PU; sez it takes 3-4 days to take full shape.

BTW, there are no covers for it in the catalog; they used to have a thick navy blue cotton cover - now computa sez no.

Also saw 2 interesting products:

sunnan :: solar powered desk lamp - I know, sounds like a perpetual energy device - warm white LED matrix, useful size polycrystalline silicon wafers that may have been reclaimed material from the solar panel industry like offcuts and mitigated defects, $35;
ingo :: desk size square table, raw pine, that seems low in embodied energy, misc inputs, and generally seems to be low on my rule of thumb harm index.

I currently need neither, but regardless of that fact most visits to Ikealand induce Ikeafever that in turn causes a purchase.

watch :: John Pilger - Freedom Next Time

2009-03-26T22:55:00.003+11:00

link
--

Australian journalist, author, film maker John Pilger speaks about global media consolidation, war by journalism, US military's quest for domination/hegemony in the post 9/11 era, false history in the guise of 'objective' journalism. Filmed in Chicago at Socialism 2007: Socialism for the 21st Century by Paul Hubbard. June 16, 2007 Broadcast on Democracy Now - The War and Peace Report - August 7, 2007

--

via bb

must watch

phone downgrade

2009-03-26T15:40:00.008+11:00

It has become clear that I am not using my phone as much as I used to, and it never had much traffic to begin with.

Now, adopting the position of either or, I chose the netbook.

However, for the odd times when a phone is relevant I brought back the old Nokia 1600 (it's the one one the left) : basic phone; default calendar year is 2005; trimed the size of it by removing some off the shell (some cutting was involved). It will live in the bag, not in any of my pockets, and mostly set to off mode. The alarm feature is the most useful thing about it - good for Monday 6AM wake up.

The Nokia 6300 (the one on the right will go to a good home).

got twitter

2009-03-19T13:16:00.002+11:00

Finally, I opted to sign up for twitter. Was convinced by this video. Want to see what's inside the twitter box.

https://twitter.com/bobobot

watch :: Authors@Google: Gerd Leonhard

watch :: colbert Shmeat

2009-03-18T23:56:00.000+11:00

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

World of Nahlej - Shmeat

Colbert Report Full Episodes
Political Humor

Mark Sanford
NASA Name Contest

watch :: TDS Rage in the Streets

2009-03-18T23:28:00.001+11:00

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Rage in the Streets

Daily Show Full Episodes
Important Things w/ Demetri Martin

Political Humor
Jim Cramer

watch :: tds with jim cramer

2009-03-13T22:30:00.001+11:00

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Jim Cramer Interview Outtake Pt. 3

Daily Show Full Episodes
Important Things w/ Demetri Martin

Political Humor
Jim Cramer

start with a circle

2009-03-10T17:06:00.002+11:00

If you can draw it then you can solve it.

Drawing a problem indicates that you understand it. Also with the drawing you can communicate it unambiguously, albeit without details which are left to text to best deal with.

Present and idea with pictures, in terms of:

* * who what howmuch where when howmodel whymodel **

some types of problems:
who / what problem
who / where problem
howmuch / where
howmuch / who
howmuch / when

toolpallet:
boxes
circles
smilyfaces for who
timeline for when
flowchart for howmodel
whymodel, multi variate plot showing interaction

hand drawn pictures that look like a work in progress idea invite participation and working with the idea

the objective is to convey exactly what you are saying, not to suggest interpretation

reference:
Dan Roam: The Back of the Napkin
http://fora.tv/2009/02/24/Dan_Roam_The_Back_of_the_Napkin

I think that I came across this presenter last year, maybe when he was at google on a book tour.

watch :: Policy Talks@Google: Lawrence Lessig

2009-03-04T12:49:00.002+11:00

watch :: Dmitry Orlov: Social Collapse Best Practices

2009-03-01T23:19:00.002+11:00

Watch: TED, Captain Charles Moore on the seas of plastic

2009-02-26T12:48:00.002+11:00

[Revision 20090301 : oops, sorry Desh I accidentally killed off your comment. Here's a copy/past.]

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approximately crochet

2009-02-22T20:38:00.011+11:00

went to Lincraft, got Bamboozle yarn
yesterday got inspired by this, via craftzine
starting with something easy, a scarf. not too worried about errors; it is priceless regardless of ultra low quality craftsmanship
about two years ago i found out about the virtues of bamboo, and textiles as one if its many applications
could not get started because i could not find any yarn for a reasonable price, until now.
at this point i doubt that i will advance to making my own sweater but maybe little mini sweaters for my 2 dogs, a camera sock, maybe a laptop cozy; time will tell
taking back crocheting, for the patriarchy
i learned the basics back in third grade at school; it's like riding a bicycle, you don't forget it
the act of crocheting is an effective cure for my mid afternoon drowsy period, unfortunately the addictive nature of it may null the benefit

[Revision 20090224 - used up one of the 50g balls, just over 2 feet of scarf, the going got fast when i figured out the stitch pattern and used it consistently.]

[Revision 20090301 : the above product was melted down and combined with more yarn (this time 100% bamboo cleckheaton brand) to produced the following. Time well spent? duno, but i can cross it of my todo list.]

Watch: Juan Enriquez.. Tech evolution will eclipse the financial crisis

2009-02-18T23:41:00.001+11:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNcLKbJs3xk

another perspective on the big picture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Enriquez

Watch: TED Talk -- Barry Schwartz: The real crisis? We stopped being wise

2009-02-17T13:44:00.001+11:00

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/462
practical wisdom

(via bb)

Watch: The Truth, from the gut!

2009-02-13T00:34:00.002+11:00

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Truth From the Gut

Colbert Report Full Episodes
Funny Political News

Christian Bale Parody
Joke of the Day

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/218576/february-11-2009/truth-from-the-gut

Watch:Authors@Google: Bert Hölldobler & E.O. Wilson

2009-02-07T00:13:00.002+11:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf_ijizSTAE
on super organism, also ants

Watch: Better Know a Beatle - Paul McCartney

2009-01-29T23:15:00.007+11:00

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Better Know a Beatle - Paul McCartney

Colbert Report Full Episodes
Colbert Report Tickets

Paul McCartney Appearance
More Funny Videos

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/217077/january-28-2009/better-know-a-beatle---paul-mccartney

A Beatle needs a bump.

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Exclusive - Paul McCartney

Colbert Report Full Episodes
Paul McCartney Appearance

Funny Political Videos
More Funny Videos

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/217898/february-04-2009/exclusive---paul-mccartney

unrelated/test/jenny: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dr9jwrq_1875c9s47gz

Watch: Rep. John Lewis Honors Martin Luther King, Jr.

2009-01-22T12:30:00.003+11:00

also via rocketboom

Also President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address

Watch: Paula Scher: Great design is serious (not solemn)

2009-01-18T17:07:00.001+11:00

on design

Watch: Authors@Google: Robert Shiller

2009-01-12T00:07:00.002+11:00

[ housing bubble ]

Watch: Dr. Jane Hightower - Diagnosis: Mercury

2009-01-12T00:04:00.002+11:00

http://fora.tv/2008/12/09/Dr_Jane_Hightower_-_Diagnosis_Mercury#

about culture in Parramattra

2009-01-04T19:08:00.003+11:00

This post is not really thought out and composed to stand on its own for any passer by, but I figure that it must be put into the timeline at least in note2self form.

The other day I went to Parramatta, Westfield, Church Street Mall, George Street. I noticed a few things.

Westfield: patron culture change; it seems to be different to what I remember only a year or two back, and starkly different from when I was growing up in the area some 20 years ago. It continues to undergo transformations, without going into nostalgic details re periods.
Church street mall: a friendly group of youths engaged in neo ghetto break dance collaboration.
Shops: more of everything, with geographic and thematic agglomeration.

My impression now is that Parramatta has what resembles a distinct cultural resonance, outside of it's historical context. These people arrived, either from else where or as a next generation. The difference and the time in which it was accomplished seems parallel to the change of the web and contemporary global developments.

Maybe it is just me having the delusion of seeing patterns where there are none. This is very inconclusive and subjective.

a myna incident

2008-12-16T18:59:00.002+11:00

http://picasaweb.google.com/robotsaregodless/20081216AMynaIncident#

This myna was looking for food in the right place. I think it's a young'un.

WATCH: Steven Pinker: A brief history of violence, at TED

2008-12-11T23:14:00.000+11:00

Lala nom evolushun

2008-12-02T17:01:00.001+11:00

http://picasaweb.google.com/robotsaregodless/LalaNomsEvolushun#

TAFE course done

2008-11-24T15:33:00.001+11:00

Note to future self. Today I had my last exam.

Debits debited. Credits credited.

MYOB um-et-ed.

Now the wait for the results and hopefully a certificate III with my name on it.

veganpet

2008-11-11T22:12:00.004+11:00

Today I placed my second order from Veganpet, this time for 2 bags.

Previously, or several weeks ago, I found veganpet.com.au on the googles. Soon enough I ordered some to try it.

Slightly longish and somewhat embarrassing story (see note1) cut short, I am now satisfied that my two dogs devour the stuff. They love it!

The trick was to get them hungry enough to try a new food. Halting their meat supply for about a day, proved to be about enough. It probably also helps that the pair of them are somewhat competitive for food, as well as attention.

That makes for a few dozen more chickens and a cow spared per year. Otherwise without some kind of a vegetarian diet solution for the pets, I would have had to continue living with a gaping hole in my vegan ethics because of the dogs.

Incidentally, it may be worthwhile pointing out that dogs are omnivorous. Notwithstanding everything being debatable, dogs will eat almost anything that people eat. Feeding to dogs a constant supply of supermarket pet food like what the cute TV adverts would inspire you believe is about on par as satisfying a human child's dietary needs via McDonalds, both very doable and commonly done but not necessarily a good idea. [Yes, I'm aware that Veganpet is also a food somewhat like the supermarket stuff, but a discussion of the merits of the former compared to the latter is beyond the scope of this blog entry, and I am not up to the argument.]

note1: I can confirm that the ingredients seem to be of a quality that is for human consumptions - which is also a good litmus test that this is pretty good stuff.

Obama wins

2008-11-06T16:12:00.003+11:00

The Obama win and the significance that it carries is rightfully claimed by Americans. As an outsider and having no claim to the result, I nonetheless share a maximum allowance of the fervent sentiment going around the globe.

To mark this moment in my noted timeline (a day late) I pick this bit that I think was well put. {Thanks fergusnoodle for unknowingly assisting in the choice of article.}

via http://www.racialicious.com/2008/11/05/good-and-now-back-to-work-avoiding-both-cynicism-and-overconfidence-in-the-age-of-obama/

Tonight, after Barack Obama was confirmed as the nation’s president-elect, I looked in on my children, as they lay sleeping. Though they are about as politically astute as kids can be, having reached only the ages of 7 and 5, there is no way they will be able to truly appreciate what has just happened in the land they call home. They do not possess the sense of history, or indeed, even a clear understanding of what history means, so as to adequately process what happened this evening, as they slumbered. Even as our oldest cast her first grade vote for Obama in school today, and even as our youngest has become somewhat notorious for pointing to pictures of Sarah Palin on magazines and saying, “There’s that crazy lady who hates polar bears,” they remain, still, naive as to the nation they have inherited. They do not really understand the tortured history of this place, especially as regards race. Oh they know more than most–to live as my children makes it hard not to–but still, the magnitude of this occasion will likely not catch up to them until Barack Obama is finishing at least his first, if not his second term as president.
But that’s OK. Because I know what it means, and will make sure to tell them. ...