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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] [Bulk] Re: Virtual Reality is where the aliens are<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><br>><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span>> >…So what will you do with your advantage? There is no inherent duty, no required activity imposed by the universe. There simply is what you are. Congratulations, you rolled well so far; now what?<br>><br>><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span> Sheesh, I don’t know. All MBrain calculations all the time?<o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>You're not a MBrain yet. What will you do with the advantage you have right now, today?<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Calculations on the design of MBrains I meant. I created two videos for Khan Academy introducing the notion of MBrains, but as far as I know they didn’t use them. That isn’t really what Khan Academy is about. But there might be a forum somewhere where ideas like this gather to play. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I like the idea of ten minute videos which get right to the point. The first of those videos is just under 10 minutes but the second is a little over 11, and both sound rushed, and I had a cold when I made them so I am not satisfied with either. Even then, they are parts 1 and 2 of what was originally planned as a trilogy, so I haven’t even gotten to the part about how an MBrain can gradually pull a star, and the challenges of heat control.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Is there a web place where wacky scientific ideas gather in video format?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>