Posted: Apr 10, 2010 7:51 pm
Okay, I plan to finish this sequence of posts in just about fifteen-and-a-half hours (probably 14 from when this gets posted). I won't be available for meeting direct responses to the sequence for quite a while thereafter, but I may respond tomorrow to some things said since I started. I remind people that some of what I have said in this thread goes back to near its beginning.
Now, I have to begin with personal narrative. I expect to fit some of the 365 stuff in this post at the end, but it's the next one that will be more technical (and it will have bizarre testable real-world claims).
I skip most of my life to get to 23 April 2004. Sitting outside the Univeristy of Pennsylvania bookstore, I was thinking about the plausibility of writing something on the notion that societal obstacles to human immortality are larger than scientific and technical ones. For some reason, I had the egocentric notion to imagine that I might be given a specific fraction of then-living humanity that would be immortal--perhaps with cosmological limitations--by a super-intelligent predictor, so I reasoned out a guess of the maximum possible and then picked (Nobody was talking to me, and I don't and didn't believe what I'm saying to be likely, so you could put this as a highly unlikely semi-delusion) 76.32%. Later that night, looking at the full Moon (Hey, I'm going on memory--tell me if I have my date wrong), I added the digits 85 and determined that I might be off by exactly 100 years due to personal optimism, and I now think 50 years is most likely of the three very unlikely possibilities (Then again, maybe there is more pessimism about the possible rapid change that is needed than there should be). How I got to this point is by a strange logic about my own logic. To complete the thing, I posited that three more digits would be found by someone else 'In Judgment', just thinking about how precisely the thing could be nailed down.
Anyway, it's not theoretically impossible to have such a positive percentage.
A little over a year later, I broke out of a bit of a depression on 31 May with the thought that I hadn't moved things forward myself, whatever the possible best future may be. Several (about ten) days of blank-but-serious thought on the matter led me to pick up on some of my old thoughts about society's arrangement. In particular, I had decided I favored three couples joining together to form a larger-than-traditional family core, so I thought to calculate what thirteen-factorial was (for some reason) and got a by-hand over-calculation (for some reason), and I very quickly (somehow) wrote down The Miracle Scheme you can find in shortest form at both my Wikipedia and h2g2 spaces (See one of the earlier posts for links). This topic (and Ralph Nader! ) will be discussed more at the very end of these posts (partially on the instigation of TMB, someone else who has been on this thread recently).
A bunch of other crap happened (some of it like the Boxing Day Tsunami which already had, and some more personal) after this and before I was 'given my explanation' while reading Robert Oerter's The Theory of Almost Everything. I grew up knowing I had some strange things in family birthdays. The ten-date coincidence I have identified is posted at the start of the thread 'List 3 Coincidences You Know Of (For Debunking?)'. The core of it is the sequence 6 July 1964, 16 July 1964, 6 August 1964, and 9 August 1965, the birth dates of myself followed by those of my three closest same-generation relatives, for whom I provide the sole link. The explanation I refer to is that 16 July 1945 was defined for its meaning by a reading of the book in question, my having missed the fact (somehow) up to that point in my life. To save space and time, I direct the interested reader to the thread named. For anyone not that interested, the finding immediately provoked the calculation (365+1/4)4=17797577732+72/28. A much later calculation (on 03/06/09, USA reckoning) was (365+1/4)2=37*61+9/16, and most recent on the subject is the one from base 8 that [(555+1/5)5]=22*3*5*7*163171555655 (I'll see if there's anything cute surrounding the fractional part, but if there is I don't see it right now).
I'll pick up in the next post where this one leaves off.
Now, I have to begin with personal narrative. I expect to fit some of the 365 stuff in this post at the end, but it's the next one that will be more technical (and it will have bizarre testable real-world claims).
I skip most of my life to get to 23 April 2004. Sitting outside the Univeristy of Pennsylvania bookstore, I was thinking about the plausibility of writing something on the notion that societal obstacles to human immortality are larger than scientific and technical ones. For some reason, I had the egocentric notion to imagine that I might be given a specific fraction of then-living humanity that would be immortal--perhaps with cosmological limitations--by a super-intelligent predictor, so I reasoned out a guess of the maximum possible and then picked (Nobody was talking to me, and I don't and didn't believe what I'm saying to be likely, so you could put this as a highly unlikely semi-delusion) 76.32%. Later that night, looking at the full Moon (Hey, I'm going on memory--tell me if I have my date wrong), I added the digits 85 and determined that I might be off by exactly 100 years due to personal optimism, and I now think 50 years is most likely of the three very unlikely possibilities (Then again, maybe there is more pessimism about the possible rapid change that is needed than there should be). How I got to this point is by a strange logic about my own logic. To complete the thing, I posited that three more digits would be found by someone else 'In Judgment', just thinking about how precisely the thing could be nailed down.
Anyway, it's not theoretically impossible to have such a positive percentage.A little over a year later, I broke out of a bit of a depression on 31 May with the thought that I hadn't moved things forward myself, whatever the possible best future may be. Several (about ten) days of blank-but-serious thought on the matter led me to pick up on some of my old thoughts about society's arrangement. In particular, I had decided I favored three couples joining together to form a larger-than-traditional family core, so I thought to calculate what thirteen-factorial was (for some reason) and got a by-hand over-calculation (for some reason), and I very quickly (somehow) wrote down The Miracle Scheme you can find in shortest form at both my Wikipedia and h2g2 spaces (See one of the earlier posts for links). This topic (and Ralph Nader!
) will be discussed more at the very end of these posts (partially on the instigation of TMB, someone else who has been on this thread recently).A bunch of other crap happened (some of it like the Boxing Day Tsunami which already had, and some more personal) after this and before I was 'given my explanation' while reading Robert Oerter's The Theory of Almost Everything. I grew up knowing I had some strange things in family birthdays. The ten-date coincidence I have identified is posted at the start of the thread 'List 3 Coincidences You Know Of (For Debunking?)'. The core of it is the sequence 6 July 1964, 16 July 1964, 6 August 1964, and 9 August 1965, the birth dates of myself followed by those of my three closest same-generation relatives, for whom I provide the sole link. The explanation I refer to is that 16 July 1945 was defined for its meaning by a reading of the book in question, my having missed the fact (somehow) up to that point in my life. To save space and time, I direct the interested reader to the thread named. For anyone not that interested, the finding immediately provoked the calculation (365+1/4)4=17797577732+72/28. A much later calculation (on 03/06/09, USA reckoning) was (365+1/4)2=37*61+9/16, and most recent on the subject is the one from base 8 that [(555+1/5)5]=22*3*5*7*163171555655 (I'll see if there's anything cute surrounding the fractional part, but if there is I don't see it right now).
I'll pick up in the next post where this one leaves off.