Thursday, June 5, 2008
A Holy Grail Stock
Super capacitors: Will be game changing in the energy storage industry. They never degrade, have instant charge times, are almost 100% energy efficient, and even can have more energy density than the best batteries theoretically. Look to the new super capacitor being invented right now from EEstor on wikipedia. (A.K.A. EEstor inc.). And they will also be in a new vehicle made by the company Zenn. It may also be wise to invest in the companies stock of Zenn or EEstor before they multiply and split by an online stock trading site like "E*trade"that should be reputable because of them being able to put commercials on TV. I was recently looking on youtube under "EEstor" and they said that ZENN automotive stock is a speculative stock. And that it's at 4$ right now and if the technology didn't work then the stock would drop to 1$ but if the technology did work then the stock price would rise to 20$/share. And I plan on investing at least $1,000 in their stock because if it works I will be able to buy one of their cars with gain in stock value. But I'm also willing to take the risk of loosing the money, because I believe in the science as being just as important of a new technology as fiber optics were when they were invented. Here's the stock info page. Also Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, on this Wikipedia page(Wikipedia is, I'd say, 99.8% fact) is a venture capital investment firm who counts Google and Amazon among their early-stage successes, has also invested heavily in the company. Look under their investments for where it says Eestor as a 2007 investment. And also Lockheed Martin is investing in EEstor for sole use of the patent in the US, in the military, see: This press release. Look to EEstor,inc.'s private company information page also. And also since watching almost every video that they have on youtube under the search "ZENN car" I now have confidence in investing in a company that is as professional as them. Even if the bigger car companies out there will one day overtake them, by getting license to the same capacitor technology. Also definitely read the press releases on ZENN motors website, under "news". http://www.zenncars.com/
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Absolute Certainty
- If you go 30 miles in one hour you could have either gone 30mph the whole time or 60 miles per hour for 5 minute and 20 mph the rest of the way and still gone the 30 miles in the 1 hour.
- Good and bad are not absolute as the old saying goes that gold is good for a human but bad for an ass(donkey). But straw is good for an ass but bad for a human. And how we punish people for being bad varies from country to country also.
- One substance can have different properties at different energy levels even though it is still the same substance. And when combining different substances at different energy levels there are infinite possibilities as to the properties that are desired. Also different densities and amounts of imperfections can give these same substances radically different properties.
- With so much not being absolute does that mean that death is still absolute?
- And is the act of saying nothing is absolute, absolute in and of itself.
Anything involving humans is never absolute and is never a certainty.
The only absolutes in civilization are “death and taxes” as the saying goes.
On the other hand nature and physical law is always an absolute certainty
Just look at nuclear physics experiments and what is at stake if they don’t work exactly as predicted, and how many lives are at stake. That’s how I know that god and spirits don’t interfere with things, because sometimes there’s no margin for error. This is why we rely on the laws of the universe to not change erratically.
Gravity will never fail. The sun will always shine, a knife will always cut, energy will never be created or destroyed, there will always be entropy which means there are always new beginnings from the past being erased by time.
We make tools out of nature in order to make survival more of a certainty and easier.
But then humans monopolize or franchise or corner the market in new tools to have control over other humans, who are forced to do whatever the rich guy tells them. This is a form of control which makes the rich person's life more certain but it makes every other humans life less certain.
If it wasn’t for this monopolizing of new ideas then we would have had infra red cook tops 20 years ago. Because it was patented but never used by the owner of the patent until the patent ran out and the rest of the world jumped on the opportunity of using the idea then, 20 years later.
Control
But some things you aren’t supposed to have control over in the first place like other people.
That’s why you never see doctors or scientists ever get angry or yell at things, because they’re in the business of controlled experiments and being in control.
I personally get angry when other people are controlling my life and I can’t stop them from doing that.
All technology has been made to control the universe. And some people take it upon themselves to control other people with that technology or infrastructure. See: Absolute certainty for more on this.
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Society: Everybody wants to have total control over their own life. This is a problem in society. In society too much control over people is a totalitarian dictatorship, and too little control would supposedly look like the movie mad max in total anarchy.
Animals live in total anarchy, but if you are the animal at the top of the food chain then you have control over the other animals but they have no control over you.
This is the same in society when the rich guy has control over the poor people but the poor people have no control over the rich people.
This is the same as military, when the guys with the bigger guns have control over everybody else in the world but the small unarmed countries have no control over the bigger countries.
In other words,"It's good to be the king". And it sucks to be the little people with their lives under other peoples control.
So is it a balance between chaos and control that makes a good society? I say as long as you have complete control over your own life but you have absolutely no control over other peoples lives, then that would be the best society. This is actually the libertarian philosophy. But still even if a libertarian country was created it could possible still be corrupted some day.
But in the end the only way to have a perfect society is to have only good people in that society, which means having to cure the entire human race of all mental illness. In other words a perfect society is not possible.
Monday, June 2, 2008
An Unfinished Artificial Intelligence Idea
When it is invented, will make more money than anything. Because then robots will be able to perform complex tasks for us(cooking, cleaning, fixing, building). And will be able to be friends to us.
Communication: Robots would communicate to each other through tones in the same way that “R2D2” does. This is a much easier to decode language that would be captured by hearing devices. And may be translated to us through a translator earphone. And we can also talk to them or ask them a question. This may require a new, and less complex language than english for a robot to understand questions and sentences.
The way to make a learning robot is cause and effect and to learn from mistakes. Positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement.
Questioning, as a means to learn the universe around them: To fill in blanks left in the robots universe, it should ask us, Who what when where why. Because we don't know what it knows or doesn't know unless it asks.
When they know that gravity effects objects then they know to aim above an object they are throwing a ball at, in a parabolic arch.
Vocabulary: They must have a vocabulary to be able to describe the universe around them. Each word is given a tonal code in order for us to tell it that work in tones and for it to translate those tones into the word.
The robots must always ask why about everything, and store the answer, to know the answer to that question later on in life.
Vision: must be just as good as ours and they must be able to know what they are seeing and also predict that objects actions. But vision may not be necessary for a mostly talking robot. Also objects can have Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Chips on them so that the robot can know what the item is and that items properties so that it knows how to handle that item. And later on it can learn what the item looks like and not even need the RFID chips at all to recognize something.
Also you need a "spacial actualization program" in the brain knowing where an object is and what shape it is and how big it is in relation to you. That's where 3-D vision comes in handy. If your robot sees a stuffed animal they need to be able to recognize what it is without turning it around which means being able to fill in gaps of information with assumptions. Magic isn't possible also so the robot needs to differentiate between plausible explanations of what the object is and reject implausible explanations. For instance filling in the blanks when asked "What is in the front yard right now", it's usually not answered with "a pink elephant".
And they need a way to differentiate between different shapes and be able to make up novel descriptions of newly shaped objects attributes that they come across. And be able to differentiate the relevance of different attributes of an object. Example: To recognize a teddy bear we see it's facial features and shape and texture and we know that is is a teddy bear. So describing physical attributes is key to being able to recognize objects.
Neural memory banks: And the robot would tell you when its memory banks were full so that you could buy them another flash memory drive.
And we could copy their “mind” and download it onto a second clone robot.
Use it or loose it. When the robot hasn’t done something for a while it will forget (or "erase" if you will) that information making them have to problem solve again in order to find a new way of doing that same thing. Sort of like pushing the reset button on a video game. In order to come up with new novel approaches to solving problems.
Problem solving: Is done by having a goal and finding a way to reach that goal, which will not need second chances to accomplish. And if the attempt at reaching a goal fails you must consider risk and reward. If the risk is someone dieing then don't even attempt trying to reach your goal unless absolutely sure of success.
Problem solving, and real world based critical thinking, is key for original thought processes or sentience.
And imitation is key to passing, already perfected ways of doing things, onto new generations for a head start in life.
Eventually after a mass produced copy of an already advanced working learning robots mind is made it will be called a "personality chip" as a more specific term than just the generic term "artificial intelligence chip".
An unfinished infinite music idea
First map out all 4 note combinations (or more or less notes) that are possible based on there being a-g notes, and also variable speeds of those notes.
Then randomly select a 4 note combination to add onto a song in the process of being made, and see if it is a good add on to the song.
Most song writers get stuck in a rut and can’t get new music ideas other than the same monotone that they’ve already done before, due to the lack of imagination by only liking/ making/or thinking about a certain type of music. And you also have to be in the zone or be a genius, in order to have musical breakthroughs all the time. But with this new method you are certain to come up with new ideas as long as you sort through enough note combinations.
Also you can have a music program that creates original music spontaneously. Although this would not be very good music and so you would need a learning program to know what kind of music emotes, in a way that humans can relate to.
Maybe you can think up new and creative music all in your mind if you listen to enough music.
This is what somebody I met that was in the music business said when I asked "what makes someone a musical genius". And he responded "You have to just listen to a lot of music".
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Fun Thoughts To Stir The Imagination
Imagine a world where all of the drinking water that you need is absolutely free. And never having another water bill
Imagine never having an energy bill again.
Imagine a world where it is absolutely free to cook food. There is no energy bill from using a stove. And if you have wood scraps on your property, then there is no fuel cost. And the stove itself was free and easy to build.
Imagine never having to buy matches again, or lighter fluid, or coal brickets.
Imagine never having to buy alcohol or other chemicals again , and instead they just made themselves for free, on the same time scale as vegetable gardens grow.
And imagine that you could wash and dry your clothes instantly and that you didn’t need to fix the washing machine ever again, and that you never paid for detergent or water again, or even had to worry about your clothes shrinking anymore.
Imagine never having to buy gasoline again for your car, and also the car never having to be repaired again or needing oil, but still having the same performance and convenience as a normal car.
Imagine never needing tools, or needing to make complex machines work, or ever having to repair your house again, or mow the lawn.
Imagine never having to worry about crime ever again or being in an accident caused by someone else.
Imagine not having to move all the time and if you did move all the time the furniture never weighed more than 20 pounds, or being awkward to carry.
And imagine never needing to go to the store again, or needing to pay for things, constantly, or being in the crowded stores. But instead your store was the wide open wilderness that you got supplies and food and medical and materials from, and it never ran out of stock.
And finally what if you never had to see bad news on TV or argumentative people, and you didn’t have to worry about anything anymore, and you kept all human made good in your life and had already gotten rid of all human made bad in your life. And because you had a working system with no chance of system failure, that would mean no more worries to be kept in the back of your mind anymore, and you'd now finally be at a point that you can relax and don’t need to do anything anymore unless you want to, so you just decided to sit back and watch the tides come in and the sun set, in total silence, with no end point in site to the perfect life.
This is all possible with today’s technology by yourself or with other people, without having to sacrifice standard of living. And you still get to have the best of all of these ideas simultaneously, and the best of all worlds all at once.
People Tend To Forget....
I've had a bad allergic reaction lately, ever since I moved to Florida. And because it was most likely dust mites, and you can never get rid of dust mites completely, I was beginning to think that there was no cure. But then I started working out vigorously, for a solid hour, 3 times a week at a gym that I recently got a membership to. And the rashes from the allergic reaction disappeared shortly after that. Then I finally remembered something I learned a long time ago but had forgotten. Which was that strenuous exercise boosts your immune system. So I had found the cure for the ailment that was making me annoyed at the world. Which made me realize that I had forgotten how good of a world that this actually was.
So don't believe others when they say that life can't get any better than it already is. Because we live in a good universe that we can tailor to our wants and needs. And which will always provide everything that we want or need. And that people have to create bad in this world for it to exist in the first place. Case in point: Disasters such as the recent earth quake in china killing 50,000 people, are always easily preventable, with some knowledge that you live in an earthquake prone area before you decide to start building. So as humans we can always create either bad in this world or create good in this world. You can either create your own problems or create your own solutions.
Also always have reminders in your life of the good parts of life or the utopia that you will be able to make for yourself later on, and so by only thinking about good things all the time, you will only portray happiness to others, and yourself. Instead of getting caught up in others game of complaining about life or how bad the world is. Which is a false assumption. Like the old saying "Garbage in garbage out". Which can also be expressed as "Put good things into your head and only good things will come out".
Then again it's all in how you look at things. One person can look at auto mechanics and say "That work makes you get disgusting fluids all over you and something is gonna hurt you by burning or pinching or cutting you eventually, so I hate it". But another person could look at auto mechanics and say,"Cars are so cool, and even though working on cars is uncomfortable, it's mind over matter and the rewards far outweigh the risks, and it makes you feel alive, so I think it's fun". So in essence you can find anything fun if you're just looking at it in the right way. Which means some people actually like living in crowded cities while working at a job for most of the day, for their whole lives.
So if I ever do make my own version of utopia, I will never force anyone to "convert" to my way of living, even if it works perfectly. Because every body has their own version of a perfect world, and it's everybody's choice to fashion their own life to their own particular likes or dislikes.
So the universe is a good place. And everybody can tailor the universe to their own particular needs. And always remind yourself of your own personal utopia and how good the world really is and always will be. But don't force you own personal ideas upon others.