What is Your Secret Dream for the Future?

[SpaceTiger]

Write here what is your dream

I have a dream that we will one day live in a nation in which we are not judged by the color of our skin, but by the content of our refrigerator.

 

[wolram]

I have a dream that we will one day live in a nation in which we are not judged by the color of our skin, but by the content of our refrigerator.

Oh heck, a dried up lemon and a half eaten pork pie

 

[zoobyshoe]

Anyone capable of devising an artificial genius that could write the works of the new Shakespeare could more easily just write them himself.

 

[hitssquad]

Anyone capable of devising an artificial genius that could write the works of the new Shakespeare could more easily just write them himself.

I think that would depend upon how many different works one wanted to produce.

 

[Evo]

I have a dream that we will one day live in a nation in which we are not judged by the color of our skin, but by the content of our refrigerator.

(note to self - clean refrigerator )

 

[honestrosewater]

I think that would depend upon how many different works one wanted to produce.

Yes, and I think figuring out how the process works, or one way it could work, is also valuable. And there are more general problems that would need to be solved, and one would aim to make the system adaptable.

I don't know if I qualify as a 'creative person', but I've noticed that I'm more observant than most of the people around me. And I think this has made my OCD much worse, because I notice triggers everywhere. I never even finished my list of objects and situations that trigger an attack, because I realized that it could easily reach into the 300s. The (real) examples I had seen listed 15-30. I was using the same level of detail too.

Eh, but I don't want to derail the discussion. Just something I've noticed.

 

[honestrosewater]

Anyone capable of devising an artificial genius that could write the works of the new Shakespeare could more easily just write them himself.

Actually, I'm going to disagree on this for another reason. I think having some creative writing skills would help, but you can learn about the process by studying people who do have those skills. And the program wouldn't necessarily mimic the process in humans; That's one of the goals - the other is just getting the same end result.

 

[loseyourname]

I had a dream last night. The relevant details involved me running in with a tribe of island-dwellers in some fictional world. Similar to modern-day pearl divers, they spent so much time underwater that they had actually evolved the ability to hold their breath for incredibly long periods of time (upwards of fifteen minutes). They took me to a series of underwater caverns they dwelt in, which had air and were lit by some form of bioluminescent microorganisms. Once there, they showed me how they had learned to suppress the electrical activity of these giant eel-like filter feeders that terrorized the waters and had also learned to steer them so as to clean the coastal rivers and estuaries that they depended on on land. The dream woke me up just after midnight and I quickly wrote all this down, figuring it might prove useful as part of a story idea.

 

[honestrosewater]

I had a dream last night. <snip> The dream woke me up just after midnight and I quickly wrote all this down, figuring it might prove useful as part of a story idea.

Set it in French Polynesia and make them black pearls.

 

[loseyourname]

Set it in French Polynesia and make them black pearls.

Naw, I don't want it set on earth. There are no giant filter-feeding, air-breathing electric eels on earth. I'll probably have to modify this somewhat anyway. Despite the fact that it came straight out of a dream, it bears a striking resemblance to the sandworms/makers of Dune.

 

[honestrosewater]

Naw, I don't want it set on earth. There are no giant filter-feeding, air-breathing electric eels on earth.

You never know, there are some very remote, mysterious areas in FP. You could be a Berkeley grad student doing research at the Gump Station. But okay, I'll back off.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I don't know if I qualify as a 'creative person', but I've noticed that I'm more observant than most of the people around me. And I think this has made my OCD much worse, because I notice triggers everywhere.

You've just solved the riddle of Monk and The Aviator for me, not to mention greatly qualifying my understanding of Nikola Tesla.

I've been misunderstanding the fictional TV detective Monk to be noticing details all around him that no one else pays attention to, because his OCD makes him a "neatness-freak". However, it is much more likely he notices and remembers all this stuff, because it's all triggers, and has the proper sort of emotional valence to get stored in the category of important memories.

Howard Hughs and Nikola Tesla probably noticed and stored scads of detailed information that no one else paid attention to for the same reason, some of which information they could later use in their engineering.