Getting an air filter can gain you ~0.6 years of lifespan, plus some healthspan. Here’s /u/Louie’s post where I saw this.
Lose weight. Try Shangri-La, and if that doesn’t work consider the EC stack or a ketogenic diet.
Seconding James_Miller’s recommendation of vegetables, especially cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, bok choy, cauliflower, collard greens, arugula...) Just eat entire plates of the stuff often.
Write a script that takes a screenshot and webcam picture every 30 seconds. Save the files to an external hard drive. After a few decades, bury the external, along with some of your DNA and possibly brain scans, somewhere it’ll stay safe for a couple hundred years or longer. This is a pretty long shot, but there’s a chance that a future FAI will find your horcrux and use it to resurrect you. I think this is a better deal than cryonics since it costs so much less.
Interesting; I hadn’t thought about air filters at all. Thanks for mentioning them! Five minutes of googling around leaves me highly skeptical the air filter mentioned in Louie’s post, which you linked to, is the one anyone interested in life extension would want to buy, though; the air filter mentioned there is a “HEPA grade” filter, not a “HEPA” filter. The filter in question only claims that it can catch particles which are larger than 30 angstroms, while real HEPA filters catch at least 99.97 % of particles larger than 3 angstroms. As a quick check, this seems like it might matter since I’d expect HEPA filters to catch all of the six air contaminants the EPA mentions here, while a filter which only caught particles larger than 30 angstroms would only stand a chance of catching one of those six contaminants. Please pardon the back-of-the-envelope nature of this comment.
I use dtSearch for the text searching, which works pretty well. I don’t have to use it constantly but it works well when I need it, e.g. finding something from a website I viewed a few months ago, when I no longer remember which site it was, or determining whether I’ve ever come across a certain’s person’s name before, finding one of my passwords after I’ve forgotten where I saved it, and so on. Also, sometimes I haven’t been sure about which keywords to search for, but I was able to determine that something must have happened on a particular day, and then I’ve been able to use the screenshots directly to search for it, scrolling through them like through a movie.
I don’t use a terminal. Currently I’ve been using two personal computers and have kept the history from both.
Allow the AI to reconstruct your mind and memories more accurately and with less computational cost, hopefully; the brain scan and DNA alone probably won’t give much fidelity. They’re also fun from a self-tracking data analysis perspective, and they let you remember your past better.
I’m very skeptical of the third. A human brain contains ~10^10 neurons and ~10^14 synapses—which would be hard to infer from ~10^5 photos/screenshots, esp. considering that they don’t convey that much information about your brain structure. DNA and comprehensive brain scans are better, but I guess that getting brain scans with required precision isn’t quite easy.
DNA and brain scans are far from perfect—you will only get someone “you-ish”. In the absence of a solution, you can at least get a bit more you-ness cheaply when the opportunity presents itself. A sufficiently powerful simulation could take all the possible yous indicated by DNA and scans, and see which yous are consistent with the sequences you have saved through screen shots and ect.
It’s not perfect, but it should be a little bit better.
Even better would be if you did something more complex and less externally guided than web-browsing… write a book, a blog, or a song. Also, save your LessWrong username in that file!
You don’t need to reconstruct all the neurons and synapses, though. If something behaves almost exactly as I would behave, I’d say that thing is me. 20 years of screenshots 8 hours a day is around 14% of a waking lifetime, which seems like enough to pick out from mindspace a mind that behaves very similarly to mine.
Well, I agree, that would help FAI build people similar to you. But why do you want FAI to do that?
And what copying precision is OK for you? Would just making a clone based in your DNA suffice? Maybe, you don’t even have to bother with all these screenshots and photos.
Getting an air filter can gain you ~0.6 years of lifespan, plus some healthspan. Here’s /u/Louie’s post where I saw this.
Lose weight. Try Shangri-La, and if that doesn’t work consider the EC stack or a ketogenic diet.
Seconding James_Miller’s recommendation of vegetables, especially cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, bok choy, cauliflower, collard greens, arugula...) Just eat entire plates of the stuff often.
Write a script that takes a screenshot and webcam picture every 30 seconds. Save the files to an external hard drive. After a few decades, bury the external, along with some of your DNA and possibly brain scans, somewhere it’ll stay safe for a couple hundred years or longer. This is a pretty long shot, but there’s a chance that a future FAI will find your horcrux and use it to resurrect you. I think this is a better deal than cryonics since it costs so much less.
Interesting; I hadn’t thought about air filters at all. Thanks for mentioning them! Five minutes of googling around leaves me highly skeptical the air filter mentioned in Louie’s post, which you linked to, is the one anyone interested in life extension would want to buy, though; the air filter mentioned there is a “HEPA grade” filter, not a “HEPA” filter. The filter in question only claims that it can catch particles which are larger than 30 angstroms, while real HEPA filters catch at least 99.97 % of particles larger than 3 angstroms. As a quick check, this seems like it might matter since I’d expect HEPA filters to catch all of the six air contaminants the EPA mentions here, while a filter which only caught particles larger than 30 angstroms would only stand a chance of catching one of those six contaminants. Please pardon the back-of-the-envelope nature of this comment.
I do the screenshot / webcam thing, and OCR the screenshots so that my entire computing history is searchable.
How useful have the text logs proved?
Assuming you use a terminal, do you also keep your history from that?
I use dtSearch for the text searching, which works pretty well. I don’t have to use it constantly but it works well when I need it, e.g. finding something from a website I viewed a few months ago, when I no longer remember which site it was, or determining whether I’ve ever come across a certain’s person’s name before, finding one of my passwords after I’ve forgotten where I saved it, and so on. Also, sometimes I haven’t been sure about which keywords to search for, but I was able to determine that something must have happened on a particular day, and then I’ve been able to use the screenshots directly to search for it, scrolling through them like through a movie.
I don’t use a terminal. Currently I’ve been using two personal computers and have kept the history from both.
What do the webcam and screenshots help with?
Allow the AI to reconstruct your mind and memories more accurately and with less computational cost, hopefully; the brain scan and DNA alone probably won’t give much fidelity. They’re also fun from a self-tracking data analysis perspective, and they let you remember your past better.
I’m very skeptical of the third. A human brain contains ~10^10 neurons and ~10^14 synapses—which would be hard to infer from ~10^5 photos/screenshots, esp. considering that they don’t convey that much information about your brain structure. DNA and comprehensive brain scans are better, but I guess that getting brain scans with required precision isn’t quite easy.
Cryonics, at least, might work.
DNA and brain scans are far from perfect—you will only get someone “you-ish”. In the absence of a solution, you can at least get a bit more you-ness cheaply when the opportunity presents itself. A sufficiently powerful simulation could take all the possible yous indicated by DNA and scans, and see which yous are consistent with the sequences you have saved through screen shots and ect.
It’s not perfect, but it should be a little bit better.
Even better would be if you did something more complex and less externally guided than web-browsing… write a book, a blog, or a song. Also, save your LessWrong username in that file!
You don’t need to reconstruct all the neurons and synapses, though. If something behaves almost exactly as I would behave, I’d say that thing is me. 20 years of screenshots 8 hours a day is around 14% of a waking lifetime, which seems like enough to pick out from mindspace a mind that behaves very similarly to mine.
A mind that behaves very similarly to yours while typing at a a computer screen.
Put that mind in a pub and I doubt it will perform well.
Well, I agree, that would help FAI build people similar to you. But why do you want FAI to do that?
And what copying precision is OK for you? Would just making a clone based in your DNA suffice? Maybe, you don’t even have to bother with all these screenshots and photos.
That last one sounds like a plan, on top of signing up for Cryonics. Tah.