RobertHubert

Start: Wikipedia -> free -> artwork -> Aesthetics -> Philosophy. 4 clicks away.

Seeing as we humans ceated Wikipedia perhaps in an effort to define and describe everything there is, the product ends up filtered through the lenses of it's creators and in doing so we inevitably end up defining what it is to be human. I dont believe we can understand or describe anything beyond what it is we are. Wikipedia is essentially the accumulation of the collective knowledge of it's creators so what else should we expect it to be outside of the definition of what it is to be man. The attempt to collect and master the understanding of everything is afterall a philosophic endeavor. Done babbling now lol.

- I deleted that part of my comment to avoid a stoning lol...

But yeah I was thinking something like an excel read out of the words, and just a fun little engine that would let you test any word on the fly. Maybe even live stat tracking for popular words that updates daily, I just love the idea of these word relationships. But there is soo much room for deliberate tampering.

Tried the word Stupid... Just got stuck in a loop.

EDIT: Tried it again... Stupid - Philosophy = 11

Just tested it for the hell of it, started with "FireFighter", thought it was random... and 30 clicks later landed on Philosophy! Fun stuff.

Ill admit when I first read the title I thought oh yeah that car probably did have some iPad like thing in it haha!

Well I didnt say she's perfect lol. Trees are just a great example of how evolution has done a pretty good gob on a specific trait. Now compared to how long humans have been around and our constant changing environments and diet, medicine and other advancements keeping us alive, trees have had quite a head start for getting stuff "right"! But yes intelligent design is garbage. But what happens if we design an intelligent race and set it loose on another planet and they start doing stuff they weren't designed to do? lol. Bad designer or stupid creatures? I'm just having fun here...

Cant get much better than millions of years of try and die I guess. Mother nature is pretty crazy! We should copy her work more often :)

Lol thats the first thing that went through my head when I read the article too.

"As I write this, I'm sitting on my balcony. Within my frame of view, there are 4 coffee shops, one on each corner of the intersection - four of them are Starbucks. Welcome to the post get your own damn internet and make your own damn coffee world"

Here is some more info on the project if anyone is interested

http://bengrosser.com/projects/interactive-robotic-painting-...

This is a great article! I really think this can be an exciting frontier for computer tech and for human tech. I want these integrated into my brain one day!

Good Reading!

Why not? I entered :) Good luck!

How about steel-toed five fingered shoes?

First off, Nice post. But I disagree slightly out of experience from my own toils with procrastination. I find that I, among many other humans simply want to remain in a state of comfort, whatever that means to each person. Every little thing that deviates one from constant comfort becomes a bump in the state of mind, this bump can be smoothed out in 1 of 2 ways, You can do what you should do, the task at hand, or you can put it off in exchange for a moment of instant gratification, or some distraction action. Now in behavioral theory, there is much less mental strife or tension involve in procrastination (initially), and if the competitor action to inaction a mentally or physically longer journey requiring more energy to complete, the natural response would be the shortest of the two. Instant gratification is powerful! Its a tug-of-war calculation between actions, we will do whatever we can do that's easier or more enjoyable unless we fear the outcome of inaction so much so that it out-ways the positives of the other. We are fundamentally powerless against this. For all you fellow entrepreneurs out there, we simply love building things more than anything else. My procrastination for example consists of working on projects or prototyping a new app. I will default to that when countered with options of going to the movies, eating out, or playing video games. One could argue however that fear of failure motivates one above all others to strive for success. Just my 2 cents.

Funny the things we forget about... I wonder what other of our body parts are missing out on some extreme sensory experiences. What about our brain? Can we get this type of increased stimulation directly into our heads? I think perhaps video games did this job when they were new. New exciting activities can perhaps help (sky diving, racing a car, etc).

Getting my team to apply now! Thanks for the heads up! Edit: Im in LA and if I qet the invite, Ill be driving up but I can fit 2 more people in the car for the ride if any locals want to carpool. I have room to host 2 people at my place here in LA also if anyone is flying in to LAX for any reason lol.