2008-05-19.log

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Vedestintheir routing software00:00
kanzurefenn: http://www.engr.utexas.edu/che/students/undergrad/documents/06-08SAC_000.pdf00:04
kanzureit's not too bad in the end00:04
kanzurethat's the chemical engineering curriculum00:04
kanzureclasses that might be worth it:00:04
kanzurelab instrumentation, electronics machinery, chem engr process & materials, reactor analysis & design, process control/design, and then the technical area electives.00:04
kanzuremaybe the separation class, that's always important00:05
kanzureof course, I'm not against anything on that list per-se, just that I'd like some flexibility :)00:05
kanzurelike, I don't know, not taking the core corriculum (american govt, literature (I can always read Wikipedia to hear what I'm going to hear in there), soc-sci, hist., 00:06
kanzurehrm00:06
kanzuredon't know.00:06
kanzurehttp://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/18/125325800:22
kanzureShit.00:22
kanzureMissed that one.00:22
fenni think you will be underwhelmed00:23
fennjust think about what you've learned in the last 4 years and compare with that curriculum00:25
fennwow two courses in american history00:26
fennand two american government wtf00:26
kanzurehttp://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=556554&cid=23458618 My post on Slashdot re: brain hacking, sandboxing, etc.00:43
kanzureHm. I'm not going to get karma for that one.00:46
Vedestinkanzure, ever met chemical engineers?00:49
kanzureNope.00:49
kanzureyes, actually00:49
kanzuremy calculus/physics teacher is a chemical engineer00:49
Vedestinreally?00:49
Vedestinisn't he a teacher?00:49
kanzureyep00:49
kanzureyes he is00:49
Vedestinhe works part time in chem eng?00:49
Vedestinor he's just trained in it00:50
kanzureno, he has a degree in it00:50
kanzure'trained' is a different story (=no)00:50
Vedestinwell, in my experience00:50
Vedestinchemical engineers are either intensely dull00:50
Vedestinintensely arrogant00:50
Vedestinor a horrible mix of both00:50
Vedestinwhich would normally be ok00:50
Vedestinexcept that chemical engineers tend to teach chemical engineering courses00:51
kanzureit's definitely something I'm interested in though - this is where you get into manufacturing automation, plus chemistry is an intense analytical science on its own00:51
Vedestinthey're different00:51
Vedestinchemical engineering should really be called process engineering00:51
Vedestinwhat are they researching at austin that you'd want to be involved with kanzure00:57
kanzureVedestin: http://ellingtonlab.org/ - automated engineering for the acceleration of natural evolution00:58
Vedestinahh ok, sounds interesting00:59
Vedestini'm going to go battle bureaucracy for a while01:02
Vedestinbye01:02
kanzurek01:02
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kanzurefenn: just if you haven't seen Ed yet, http://edboyden.org/01:08
fennhm interesting this was just mentioned on some mailing list or other since i was just reading about it from marshallbrain.com http://www.aber.ac.uk/compsci/Research/bio/robotsci/01:09
kanzurethat was on my mailing list01:10
kanzureheh01:10
fennomg too much stuff01:10
kanzurehm?01:10
kanzureEd Boyden?01:10
kanzureyeah, he's kind of like me01:10
kanzureit's interesting though01:10
kanzurehe also knows Superkuh01:10
fennoh he's the "everything i learned at MIT" guy01:11
kanzureI talked to him on the phone before.01:11
fenntotally useless but that's what i remembered01:11
kanzureremember him more as the "guy who is using lasers to control neurons"01:12
kanzureand the guy who is associated with http://www.innerspacefoundation.org/01:12
kanzurewoah, John Cumbers just offered hplusroadmap some moonrocks :)01:12
fenneh.. real moon rocks?01:12
kanzurenot real moon rocks, but stuff that is chemically essentially the same stuff01:13
kanzure'recommended production of two root simulants corresponding01:13
kanzureto a low-Ti mare basalt and a high-Ca highland01:13
kanzure*anorthosite. *These roots represent compositional01:13
kanzureend-members of mare and highland materials, and can01:13
kanzurein principle be physically mixed to target the range of01:13
kanzuresoil compositions in the Apollo inventory. Lunar mare01:13
kanzurebasalt simulant *JSC-1A *approximates Apollo 14 basalts01:13
kanzurewith relatively low-Ti content, and was obtaiggd01:13
kanzureby milling and sieving a glassy volcanic ash from Merriam01:13
kanzureCrater in Arizona (*JSC-1AF = finer grade)*01:13
fennokies.. i'll keep it in mind if i ever need some lunar regolith simulant :)01:14
kanzurehttp://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/Moontank is the obvious application01:14
kanzurefenn: if I go back and make those edits to the [[2008-05-18]] page, what new things should I add to it?01:15
kanzureit's supposed to be showing up in a magazine for transhumanists among others01:15
kanzureso I'm trying to show that they can actually contribute / get people onboard etc.01:16
fennone sec, lemme transfer to laptop/bedroom01:16
kanzureI'm going brb01:16
fenn /away01:28
fennheh01:28
fennI HAVE ARRIVED01:28
kanzurehm?01:28
fenni wonder what would happen if the cat walked on the keyboard when i have multiple screen sessions open01:29
fenn2005-08-18 is what exactly?01:30
kanzure2008-05-1801:31
kanzurehttp://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/2008-05-1801:31
kanzureit's supposed to become an essay for the Sirius H+ magazine01:31
kanzuremeant to be a dense, but accessible, introduction to SKDB01:31
fenndo you know what eric is talking about with Taylor-* stuff?01:32
kanzurehm01:33
kanzurewell, wikipedia calls it 'scientific management'01:33
kanzureI think this just means 'thoughtful management'01:33
kanzureuh, shit01:34
kanzureI need some sleep, fenn01:34
fenng'nites01:34
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fennHe distinguishes "Process", the course of material that is transformed into product, from "Operation" which are the actions performed on the material by workers and machines. 01:47
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Vedestinsynergism is a pretty interesting concept06:30
Vedestinin biological systems06:30
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Biopunkhi kanzure17:49
kanzureHey Biopunk.17:50
kanzurehttp://www.acscinf.org/18:03
BiopunkAmerican Chemical Society18:10
Biopunksounds like something chemical brothers could be members of18:11
* Biopunk softly sings "hey boy, hey girl..."18:12
fennhttp://smari.yaxic.org/blag/2008/05/19/building-a-post-scarcity-society-in-a-patent-and-copyright-encumbered-intellectual-climate/19:13
Biopunkit's not so easy to find a good solution for the patent problem19:37
Biopunkeveryone agrees there has to be a change I think, except disney... well they too.. only they want progressively longer patents19:39
fenngrr tapr.org is making all the same stupid mistakes that we're finally rooting out in the free software world, "because hardware is different! wah!" 19:47
kanzure"No! No different! Only different in your mind."19:51
kanzureooh, it was you19:51
fennyeah i just wanted to nudge smari in the right direction19:52
fenni guess it worked19:52
kanzuregood job19:52
kanzurewe'll have to do a followup with him later19:52
kanzurefenn: do you have a mental bootup "time" / routine?19:53
kanzureI just spent 40 minutes in the kitchen, a significant time of which was on the floor looking in cupboards19:53
kanzureI am not sure why, though.19:53
fennyeah i often do dishes generated by my roomates during that time19:53
kanzureAt one point I realized that I was being inattentive and unable to do big/long thoughts, so I took the medication19:53
fenn"the medication"?19:53
kanzurewell, I take Adderall19:54
fennoh, why?19:54
kanzureso earlier today I didn't take it19:54
kanzureit's med for ADHD apparently :)19:54
kanzurethe H stands for hyperactive, but more usefully perhaps H+ ;-)19:54
fennheh19:54
fennhilarious++19:54
kanzurebut I soon realized the error in that, "oh shit, that's why I'm not doing anything"19:54
kanzureso I went back and took some of the smaller dosages that I used to take in the afternoons19:55
kanzure(recently I switched to doing the full morning dose in the afternoon as well, you can probably tell)O19:55
kanzure*tell)19:55
kanzurethe switch was sometime in March or April; I don't know if I remembered to document it19:55
fennsurvival of the sexiest - is hyperactivity sexy?19:55
kanzuredunno19:55
kanzureit's pretty neat to me, especially paired iwth hyperfocusing19:55
kanzure*with19:55
fenn<- drug hater19:56
kanzureI don't know, fenn, the difference is rather staggering in me19:56
fennyou have to make sure you're "aimed" in the right direction before you take it, or else you might go off on a week-long obsession about pokemon19:57
fennor at least that's my baseless speculation19:58
kanzureto some extent that might be true19:59
kanzureI was actually trying to think about the typical thoughts that I do think about19:59
Biopunkfrom my days in that world I remember that it was good to have someone close by who was not on drugs who could point one in the right direction20:00
kanzurefor example, earlier today I was jotting out some massive handwritten notes to add to [[brainstate augmentation setup]] eventually20:00
kanzureand I was trying to go through the same thoughts again,20:00
kanzurebut I couldn't actually do it, it all seemed rather depressing20:00
kanzureI mean, ultimately I know it is *not* depressing, it's incredibly awesome20:00
kanzureBiopunk: It's prescribed. It's not like that.20:00
fennthe fact that you can't remember your thoughts is awesome?20:00
Biopunkyeah i know20:00
kanzureno, I refer to the concepts20:01
kanzureit's the synthesis/picture/world-view that I am developing20:01
kanzure(perhaps exhibited by [[roadmap]])20:01
fennoh, you're sick of yourself20:01
kanzurehm?20:01
fenntake a vacation :)20:01
kanzureno, I'm fine, really20:01
kanzureI was going to come up stairs to do something20:02
kanzurebut now I've ended up doing meta-talk with you20:02
kanzurehm20:02
kanzureah, maybe I was going to work on http://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/UT20:02
kanzurefor some reason my server crapped out on me, so I dumped some content on your wiki on [[ohshit]], fenn ... it was a spur of the moment thing, I was pressed for time20:02
kanzurethe server's been doing this recently, I need to fix it, but I can't quite track down the source of the problem20:02
fennheh that's fine20:03
kanzureI'm pretty sure it's not internal, since the server always responds when I am within the network20:03
kanzurefenn: did I tell you that I have come across some good money for a new computer setup?20:03
fenngratz20:04
fenndid you steer your grandma in the right direction?20:04
kanzure$2k. I'm planning on a 4 GB DDR2 RAM ($60) + at least one or two 500 GB SATA hdd internal ($90 ea), a RAID card, and a multimonitor card20:04
kanzureI'll then go dumpster diving for a few monitors, I want to get up to five or six soon20:04
kanzureno, I actually haven't talked to her about her textbook gift20:05
fennget a head-up display and chording keyboard20:05
kanzureit'll depend on what I can do for the first year of classes20:05
kanzurefenn: chording keyboards look awesome20:05
fenneh i guess20:05
fennbetter than nothing20:05
kanzurethe last woman I was close to had one20:05
fennO.o20:05
fennnot a tranny?20:05
kanzurenope20:05
kanzurejust blind :)20:05
fennaha20:06
kanzureproprietary lockin, hehe20:06
fennwhy arent all blind people geniuses20:06
kanzureHaldeman?20:06
kanzureHoldeman? I didn't check the spelling20:06
kanzureShe was bright, in a way.20:06
Biopunkbut she couldnĀ“t see it?20:06
kanzurebut ultimately tainted by proprietary lock in, and not just in terms of software on the device, but also memes and religion etc.20:06
kanzure[how it ended might be a story for another time]20:06
kanzureBiopunk: do *you* need to see the keyboard when you type?20:07
fenni do sometimes20:07
kanzureheh20:07
fennonly the weird keys though20:07
* kanzure has keys with no letterings anymroe20:07
Biopunkyes... t'was a joke.. 'bright'20:07
Biopunkcool20:07
kanzureanyway, it ended fairly terribly20:07
kanzurethis was late 200620:08
kanzure70,000 words over IM and 600 emails within 2.5 months20:08
kanzure[I didn't bother counting phone usage, or time otherwise spent]20:08
fenncults are the next big obstacle once we get a post-scarcity economy20:08
kanzurehow so?20:08
kanzurehrm, I can go into my cancerous spiell20:08
kanzureI have a few notes up in a log somewhere20:08
fennwell, governments will totally be useless when people have what they want20:08
kanzureokay, so cults20:09
kanzurethe problem is that these cults are going to be somewhat damaging20:09
kanzuresuppose we have a singularity society20:09
kanzurewhere you can fork your habitat and go off on your own20:09
kanzurethe real problem is that the original forker might be ideologically constrained in some way or another20:09
kanzureso every derivative work might in fact be 'tainted'20:09
kanzurethis is the same problem as cancer, as the combinatorial explosion,20:09
Biopunkpeople want people to tell them what to do... evolution has built that in20:09
kanzureas the reason why we need brainsynch [even though it won't entirely work ever [though I am optimistic]]20:09
fennno, people can change, especially once they've been isolated from influences that shaped the original philosophy/culture20:10
kanzureBiopunk: uh?20:10
kanzurefenn: I hope so :)20:10
fenni'm optimistic about that20:10
kanzurehttp://heybryan.org/chats/2007-12-08%20-%20cancer.html20:10
kanzureNoah is a friend of David's (from CBA)20:10
Biopunklook out for no one.. that sort of thing... most pepole will always want people to tell them what to do I think20:10
fenni like people telling me what to think sometimes20:11
Biopunk'look out for number one'... defend and faciliate for the guy in charge20:11
fennit's easy, comforting20:11
fenni have a good bullshit detector though20:11
Biopunkyeah... that's exactly it20:11
kanzure' 20:12
kanzureBut the rate of growth of the noise is going to always be much faster than the rate of growth of any sort of "signal factory" that we can make. And even if we *could* make a signal factory, who's to say that when our dx overpowers the dx of the billions of other noise engines, that our own systems will not also be noise, unable to be stopped? Ater all, we identify noise via looking into our own internal meanings and interpretation20:12
kanzurewho's to say that when our dx overpowers the dx of the billions of other noise engines, that our own systems will not also be noise, unable to be stopped? Ater all, we identify noise via looking into our own internal meanings and interpretations, so is it truly to be our will to impose upon the rest of reality? Sounds cancerous, sickly, deadly.'20:12
kanzuredon't know where the cutoff is20:13
Biopunkwith religion.... it's like you never have to grow up... you can be 5 all your life... big daddy will always take care of things20:13
fennalways is a strong word20:13
fennlasers overcome the noise problem20:13
fennand they're just tubes of hot gas20:13
kanzurefenn: shine a laser in people's eyes and what happens?20:13
kanzuresubtlety is needed20:13
kanzuremuch like your nudging that guy in the right direction20:13
kanzureinstead of an all out burst like I have been doing20:13
kanzurelike at OWW and ISDC200820:13
kanzurewhich only has a partially good reaction mostly because it's smart people on the other end20:14
kanzure:)20:14
kanzurebut it could be better20:14
fennhm.. the problem with your emails is they aren't focused, they're all over the place and you dont bring it together20:14
kanzureit's hard :(20:14
fennyep20:14
kanzurebut yes, I need to do that20:14
kanzure> The Vild in _Neverness_ is a region of the Milky Way galaxy where20:14
kanzure> stars are going supernova at an exponential rate. The heavens are20:14
kanzure> literally diseased, sickened, poisoned. The main character, Mallory20:14
kanzure> Ringess, pilot of the Order of the Mystical Mathematicians and Other20:14
kanzure> Seekers of the Ineffable Flame, must fall across the galaxy as a beam20:14
kanzure> of light in search of the source of the problem and to meet his20:14
kanzure> destiny.20:14
kanzure> And with that in mind, it is easy to call the internet poisoned.20:15
kanzure> Automated spam bots flood the internet with linkfarms and other20:15
kanzure> traps. The blognets are heavy with useless noise. Incorrect20:15
kanzure> information floods not only hard drives but minds of users. Botnets20:15
kanzure> storm the connections, denial of service attacks, etc. If an20:15
kanzure> individual could transcend the bio in/out info limitations it would20:15
kanzure> be possible to dive into both the noise and the signals all across20:15
kanzure> the internet (indeed, all of reality) without worries.20:15
kanzureeven though it's quoted, that's actually me20:15
fennanother way of identifying noise is checking for consistency20:16
kanzurethen the message is incomplete20:16
kanzurewell, not the message20:16
kanzurethe 'system on the other end' (the generator?)20:16
kanzureaccording to Godel, that is.20:16
kanzureOkay, enough philosophy. I was going to do something.20:19
kanzurehm. recurse through [[UT]], or recurse through my designs for [[brainstate augmentation setup]]20:19
kanzureor I can try to improve [[2008-05-18]], though I'm still questioning my ability to write well :)20:20
Biopunkyou write well... but you might want to use the occams razor20:20
kanzurehm?20:21
kanzurehow would you apply it in this situation20:21
kanzurev20:21
kanzurehttp://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/2008-05-1820:21
* fenn just wants to point out that kanzure didnt write anything past 'manufacturing ecology'20:22
kanzurefenn: yep20:23
kanzurefenn: I should go place a link20:23
kanzuredone20:23
Biopunki think that's fine for it's intended audience20:24
kanzuremany people would disagree completely20:24
kanzureit's not talking about how they can actually help out20:24
kanzureit's not talking about how this could mean something to them personally20:24
kanzureit's just a bunch of words in the end, no?20:24
Biopunkyeah... but you know my thoughts on the h+ community20:25
* kanzure added a quote to http://heybryan.org/ at the top20:26
Biopunkit's in the same style i think20:26
kanzureI need to change what Google shows up as my snippit when it turns up my website20:26
kanzureright now it's just me saying "Hey, my name is Bryan Bishop, and I'm blah blah blah" and nobody gives a flying fuck20:26
fennbbl restauranting20:28
Biopunktime for me to sleep20:28
Biopunkcu20:29
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kanzureheh, 21:49
kanzurecall us the Singularity Acceleration Institute21:49
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