Million Dollar Idea Thread

[bur]

i bet something very close to that already exists

i saw something a couple of years ago where someone showed off a projected touch screen, so basically you could have a completely functional computer on any flat surface

well ok it’s not really like what you said but it was still pretty amazing

[k3nny1550]

@sersoft

that’s induction, not “wireless” electricity where your phone can charge in your pocket

so nobody can see the potential in my idea of painting a screen anywhere?

It’s the best idea ever, if you paint a table: you have a smart table, paint a brick: you have a smartphone, paint your room: you have a 360 degree view display for google street view, 3d games etc… just needs an integrated processor/power and it can be done using nanobots even if they’re not ready to fix humans yet.

We’re sorta there already.

[garrthbarrttinn]

@Orpheon

Interestingly this is brought up in numerous works dealing with teleportation, yet in the end people end up being ok with it. They way they put it in Timeline was, “Since you’re instantaneously reconstructed at the very moment you are destroyed, how can you be said to have died? You haven’t died. You’ve just moved somewhere else.” They also said earlier, when discussing how you were somehow conscious all the way down to the quantum level, “But nobody understands consciousness anyway.”

The speed of the process however has no relation to the thought experiment. The thought experiment and its conclusion remain no matter how fast the teleportation. That said, it’s just a movie so as long as it gives a passable explanation suspension of disbelief does the rest. However I find it more fun to imagine each and every time a character teleports he’s been replaced by an identical character.

[bur]

The point that nobody understands consciousness kind of puts the debate to rest, beyond speculation and imagination.

[Maxey]

A device that puts a dollar in my bank account everytime a terrible YouTube comment is posted.

[GilCMassey]

I can’t even imagine that amount of money… that is far more than any one person should have.

[sersoft]

@bur

projected touch screen

@k3nny1550

We’re sorta there already.

I don’t want to use a projector, I already have one.

I mean actual pixels inside the paint. It would be more permanent and more energy efficient for roads and buildings.

[Maxey]

@0_22one

I can’t even imagine that amount of money… that is far more than any one person should have.

There is simply not enough money in the world to cover for a full hour of comments.

[Idi]

imagine the irony of a rich man so greedy he accidentally gets all of the money, rendering it worthless

[Mango_Assassin]

A virtual reality machine in which all possibilities are available?

Why does Emma Watson come to mind?

[bur]

it’s actually not outside the realm of possibility, imagine if in a few years all over the world people take financial sovereignty and create their own currencies, separate from current financial institutions

[Pyroclase]

@sersoft

I don’t want to use a projector, I already have one.

I mean actual pixels inside the paint. It would be more permanent and more energy efficient for roads and buildings.

How do you propose that the pixels in the paint communicate or get the required energy? The latter could probably be done with an underlayer of conductive paint, but then the gist of the idea seems to be that it’s something you can just slap on a wall.

It seems like your idea is just a more complex version of OLED wallpaper, which is not only well within the realm of possibility, it already exists to some extent.

[bur]

nanotechnology makes anything possible

[Pyroclase]

I hate Nanotechnology. It’s a crutch for lazy sci-fi writers.

[Ramirezoid]

the nanobot paint screens or whatev would be fueled by thumbtacks that contain whatever tehc is inside those pads that charge phones

[sersoft]

My idea has so many possible uses. It would be great for decorating your house, you move in, paint all the white furniture and walls, and you can have dynamic presets for the mood you want in your house. And unlike a projected solution, it would look authentic.

[_rot_fodder]

@sersoft

paint a brick: you have a smartphone,

I phoned my brick?

[garrthbarrttinn]

@bur

The point that nobody understands consciousness kind of puts the debate to rest, beyond speculation and imagination.

I wouldn’t say so at all. We have a VERY VERY limited understanding of consciousness. But I think that is it fair to say that, within this understanding, copying a brain perfectly does not result in one consciousness sharing two brains but two consciousnesses in separate brains. This need not even involve an understanding of consciousness, the two brains would somehow have to be connected to share consciousness unless you believe in the supernatural/spiritual (we’re assuming you don’t because that’s hogwash), and there’s no logical way for that to occur simply from the processes of copying. Therefor the rest of the thought experiment should stand.

It gets very interesting when, if you consider the thought experiment valid, you consider another one in which only parts of the brain are copied, and then they are used to replace the part they were copied from. You do this one at a time until you have an entirely copied brain in the original skull. When is consciousness lost/switched? Is it? If it isn’t lost/switched, then what size part can you replace before it is? Would something more complicated like a gradual metamorphosis occur to the consciousness? I don’t think I can provide any answers.

[bur]

I don’t think it’s fair to say at all. We know almost nothing about consciousness, there’s no way to reason out what would happen, because there’s simply no way to know at this moment.

You’re just making assumptions based on your perception of reality. There’s nothing objective about what you’re saying.

[sersoft]

I heard that modern AI is able to dream now, because it’s based on the human brain.